Cooper, Zack


Dr Zack Cooper  

Department

Position held

Centre for Economic Performance (CEP)

Associate - Productivity and Innovation

Non LSE positions held

Department

Position held

Yale University

Assistant Professor

Experience keywords:

public sector reform; NHS; US health policy; public policy; health policy; choice and competition in health care; health care reform; health economics

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Zack's research interests revolve around American health policy, comparative health policy, the role of choice and competition in health care, and incentive structure. His current work examines whether increased patient choice and hospital competition have improved quality and shortened waiting times in the English National Health Service.

Zack is beginning work comparing hospital performance in the US, The Netherlands and the UK. Zack has worked as Special Assistant to Sir Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer of the UK; as Special Assistant to Lord Ara Darzi, Minister of Health for the UK; and he has written speeches for and advised several other politicians and policy-makers.

In addition to his academic writing, Zack writes regularly for the Huffington Post and his writing has also been published in the Guardian newspaper, the Altarum Health Policy Blog, ABC News Online, the Philadelphia Enquirer and the Seattle Times. Zack has appeared on the BBC, Sky News, NPR, CBS and ABC.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

HealthcarePublic Administration

Countries and regions to which research relates:

US; UK; Europe

Media experience:

Has written for mainstream pressRadioTV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)207 107 5304

Alt email:

zachary.cooper@yale.edu

Publications

The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.

2013

Le Grand, Julian and Cooper, Zack (2013) Framing health reform. Health economics, policy and law, 8 (02). pp. 251-257. ISSN 1744-1331

2012

Cooper, Zack (2012) President Obama and Governor Romney have presented two radically different visions of healthcare reform. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Cooper, Zack and Gibbons, Stephen and Jones, Simon and McGuire, Alistair (2012) Economic studies showing positive competition effects on hospital performance fully controlled for the factors cited by recent critics. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Cooper, Zack and Gibbons, Stephen and Jones, Simon and McGuire, Alistair (2012) Does competition improve public hospitals’ efficiency?: evidence from a quasi-experiment in the English National Health Service. CEPDP, 1125. Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

2011

Cooper, Zack and Gibbons, Stephen and Jones, Simon and McGuire, Alistair (2011) Does hospital competition save lives?: evidence from the English NHS patient choice reforms. The economic journal, 121 (554). ISSN 0013-0133

Charlesworth, Anita and Cooper, Zack (2011) Making competition work in the English NHS: the case for maintaining regulated prices. Journal of health services research & policy, 16 (4). pp. 193-194. ISSN 1355-8196

Bloom, Nicholas and Cooper, Zack and Gaynor, Martin and Gibbons, Stephen and Jones, Simon and McGuire, Alistair and Moreno-Serra, Rodrigo and Propper, Carol and Van Reenen, John and Seiler, Stephan (2011) In defence of our research on competition in England's National Health Service. The Lancet, 378 (9809). pp. 2064-2065. ISSN 0140-6736

2010

Cooper, Zack (2010) Hospital competition is good for patients, and for efficiency. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Cooper, Zack (2010) Does mandated insurance mean more paternalistic public health policy? Hopefully not. Altarum Institute

Cooper, Zack and Gibbons, Stephen and Jones, Simon and McGuire, Alistair (2010) Does hospital competition improve efficiency? An analysis of the recent market-based reforms to the English NHS. CEP discussion papers, No. 988. Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Cooper, Zack (2010) The choice is simple: slow health care spending or raise taxes. Altarum Institute

Cooper, Zack (2010) Hard choices: the general election and the NHS. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

McGuire, Alistair and Cooper, Zack (2010) LSE centre for economic performance: health – higher spending has improved quality, but productivity must increase. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Cooper, Zack (2010) Health care reform: we’ve really only just begun. Altarum Institute

Centre for Economic Performance, and Machin, Stephen and Van Reenen, John and Wadsworth, Jonathan and Marie, Olivier and McNally, Sandra and Cooper, Zack and McGuire, Alistair and Bell, Brian and Garicano, Luis and Petrongolo, Barbara and Cunningham, Tom and Ilzetzki, Ethan and Overman, Henry G. and Martin, Ralf (2010) CEP election analysis 2010: a series discussing the research evidence on some of the key battlegrounds of the 2010 General Election. Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Cooper, Zack (2010) Complexity in health care can’t be a vice. Altarum Institute

Cooper, Zack (2010) What should be achieved at the health care summit. Huffingtonpost.com, Inc.

Cooper, Zack (2010) The challenge of monopolies in U.S. health care — England may help illustrate the solution. Altarum Institute

Cooper, Zack (2010) The real losers last night in Massachusetts were the uninsured. Huffingtonpost.com, Inc.

Cooper, Zack and Gibbons, Stephen and Jones, Simon and McGuire, Alistair (2010) Does hospital competition save lives?: evidence from the English NHS patient choice reforms. LSE Health working papers, 16/2010. LSE Health, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Cooper, Zack and Gibbons, Steve and Jones, Simon and McGuire, Alistair (2010) Does hospital competition save lives? Evidence from the English NHS patient choice reforms. SERC Discussion Papers, SERCDP0041. Spatial Economics Research Centre (SERC), London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

2009

Cooper, Zack (2009) The public option sideshow. Huffingtonpost.com, Inc.

Cooper, Zack (2009) A health insurance mandate and corporate monopoly. Huffingtonpost.com, Inc.

Cooper, Zack (2009) Message to the Senate Finance Committee: more dynamism, less politicking. Altarum Institute

Cooper, Zack (2009) Health care reform needs more innovating and less politicking. Huffingtonpost.com, Inc.

Cooper, Zack (2009) Barack Obama: president of policy ends, not ideological means. Huffingtonpost.com, Inc.

Cooper, Zack and Le Grand, Julian (2009) The NHS can cost less and still care. The Guardian, 4 Sept ISSN 0261-3077

Cooper, Zachary N. and McGuire, Alistair and Jones, S. and Le Grand, Julian (2009) Equity, waiting times, and NHS reforms: retrospective study. British medical journal, 339 (b3264). ISSN 0959-8138

Cooper, Zack (2009) Incentives, incentives, incentives (and adverse selection). Altarum Institute

Cooper, Zack (2009) Want to lower the healthcare price tag?: the insurance debate is just the beginning. Huffingtonpost.com, Inc.

Cooper, Zack (2009) Would Ted Kennedy get care in England? ABC news, August

Cooper, Zack (2009) English healthcare in the US reform debate: setting the record straight. Huffingtonpost.com, Inc.

Cooper, Zack (2009) This NHS row is paralysing progress. The Guardian, (12 Aug). ISSN 0261-3077

Cooper, Zack (2009) Incentives, incentives, incentives (and risk selection). Altarum Institute

Cooper, Zack (2009) Barriers, roadblocks, and opportunities: a pathway to health care reform in the United States. Altarum Institute

2006

Cooper, Z and Nelson, R M and Ross, L F (2006) Informed consent for genetic research involving pleiotropic genes: an empirical study of ApoE research. IRB: ethics and human research, 28 (5). pp. 1-11. ISSN 0193-7758

2004

Cooper, Zachary N. and Nelson, Robert M. and Friedman Ross, Lainie (2004) Certificates of confidentiality in research: rationale and usage. Genetic testing, 8 (2). pp. 214-220. ISSN 1945-0265

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