Zack Cooper

Zack Cooper is an associate professor of public health and of economics at Yale. He also serves as director of health policy at Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies. Cooper is a health economist focused on producing data-driven scholarship that can inform public policy. His work analyzes the impact of competition in hospital and insurance markets, the influence of price transparency on consumer behavior, the causes of surprise out-of-network bills, and the influence of electoral politics on healthcare spending growth. Cooper has published his research in leading economics and medical journals including the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the New England Journal of Medicine. He has also presented his research at the White House, the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Department of Health and Human Services.

Cooper received his undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and his PhD from the London School of Economics (LSE), where he received the Richard Titmuss prize for best PhD thesis. He was an economic and social science research council postdoctoral fellow in economics at the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance, where he remains a faculty associate. Cooper is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a 2019 winner of an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.