Which health economists advise grad students?

[Elliephant]

It seems to me that many of the big names in health don't serve as advisors (or haven't for a long time). Some hire recent UGs as full-time RAs and then send them to solid PhD programmes, but I'm having trouble finding active health economists who actually advise grad students on their dissertations. Someone suggested to me part of it might be that the junior faculty who constitute a large portion of the work are under so much pressure to publish, and haven't got the time for grad students. But I'm not so sure since advising strong students can be a source of manpower --> publications, at least in principle.

Can those of you currently in grad school share some names of people who might be potential thesis advisors?

[SlowLearner38]

Sara Markowitz at Emory is an example. She studied under Grossman at CUNY as a PhD student and has a laundry list of co-authored papers with Grossman as well. At Emory, she works with plenty of the graduate students interested in Health Economics.

[Elliephant]

Thanks SlowLearner. A little too focussed on substance abuse for my interests, but Markowitz must be fascinating to talk to

Seriously, no one has any other names?

[cosmokramer]

Heidi Williams is a recent grad student who worked on health -- and she has a nice health paper with : Douglas Almond, Joseph Doyle, and Amanda Kowalski. (http://www.nber.org/~heidiw/papers/qje2010.pdf)

You should check them out, not that i personally know if they work a lot with grad students.

[Nachiglt]

I think Randel Ellis @ BU supervises PhDs with a concentration in Health

[AREStudentHopeful]

He's not at a school that most people on the forum consider, but Chris Ruhm at UNCG advises students, I believe.

[Elliephant]

Thanks guys! Please keep them coming

Heidi Williams is a recent grad student who worked on health -- and she has a nice health paper with : Douglas Almond ...

Edit: Actually Doug Almond and quite a few of his colleagues at Columbia do a lot of interesting work, and it's definitely a top target school for me. Can anyone familiar with the department comment on which of them take on grads?

[jeeves0923]

If you're at one of the Cambridge schools, Gruber and Finkelstein both advise tons of students.

[Elliephant]

If you're at one of the Cambridge schools, Gruber and Finkelstein both advise tons of students.

Thanks Jeeves. A kid can dream, I suppose.

Anyone else? Yale, Berkeley, Princeton (a few Woodrow Wilson), Columbia, Penn (mostly Wharton) all have people doing cool things, but do they advise students?

[Elliephant]

(Not so surreptitious) bump. Last one, I promise!