Office: ITT 1.404N

Phone: (956) 318-5306

E-mail: jpagan@utpa.edu

Web site: http://www.coba.panam.edu/faculty/pagan

 

     José A. Pagán is Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for Population Health Policy at UTPA.  Dr. Pagán is also Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and Research Associate of the Population Studies Center (and the Population Aging Research Center) at the University of Pennsylvania.  He received B.S. and M.A. degrees in mathematics and economics from The Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. in economics from The University of New Mexico. His research focuses on the population health consequences and community effects of uninsurance, and the impact of health status on employment and productivity.  His research interests also include the economics of immigration and immigrant health.  He has been a Fullbright Scholar in Mexico, a consultant for the World Bank and the Inter American Conference for Social Security, Director of the UTPA Center for Border Economic Studies, and a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania (Cohort 1, 2003-2005).

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