STANFORD UNIVERSITY, STANFORD, CALIFORNIA 94305

VICTOR R. FUCHS

HENRY J. KAISER, JR PROFESSOR EMERITUS

DEPARTMENT O F ECONOMICS

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH RESEARCH AND POLICY

Mailing address:

NBER 30 Alta Road

Stanford, CA 94305-8710

Phone: 650-858-1527

or 326-7639

Fax: 650-328-4163

Victor R. Fuchs

Victor R. Fuchs is the Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, where he applies economic analysis to social problems of national concern, with special emphasis on health and medical care. He was Professor of Economics in the Economics Department and the School of Medicine’s Department of Health Research and Policy from 1974 to 1995. His published work covers a wide spectrum of subjects ranging from health and medical care to issues of family, gender, and children. He is author of nine books, the editor of six others, and has published over a hundred articles.

His best known work, Who Shall Live? Health, Economics, and Social Choice (1974; expanded edition 1998), helps health professionals and policy makers to understand the economic and policy problems in health that have emerged in recent decades. Other books include How We Live (1983), The Health Economy (1986), Women’s Quest For Economic Equality (1988), and The Future of Health Policy (1993), all published by Harvard University Press. He is the editor of Individual and Social Responsibility: Child Care, Education, Medical Care, and Long-term Care in America, published by the University of Chicago Press in 1996.

Professor Fuchs was elected president of the American Economic Association in 1995. His contributions have also been recognized by his election to the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He was received the John R. Commons Award, Emily Mumford Medal for Distinguished Contributions to Social Science in Medicine, Distinguished Investigator Award (Association for Health Services Research), Baxter Foundation Health Services Research Prize, and the Madden Distinguished Alumni Award (New York University). Professor Fuchs has been a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1962, and was Vice President of the NBER from 1968 to 1978. He has twice been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. His current research topics include mortality and health care utilization of the elderly, the future of American health policy, and the economics of aging.

January 2002