- Professor
University of Calgary
Department of Economics
Mingshan Lu
Research Interests
Research Interests:
Currently Teaching
| W2025 - ECON 379 - The Economics of Health | ||||||||||
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| W2025 - ECON 679 - (MDCH 661) Health Economics | ||||||||||
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About Me:
Mingshan Lu, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Economics at University of Calgary, where she has been on the faculty since 1997, after earning MA and Ph. D. in economics from Boston University. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Department of Community Health Sciences and a Member of the O'Brien Institute of Public Health at University of Calgary. Dr. Lu has been the Lead of Health Economics at the Methods Hub, Alberta's Strategy for Patient Oriented Research (SPOR) Support Unit, a Fellow at the Institute of Health Economics in Alberta, as well as a Member of Network of Alberta Health Economists (NOAHE). She has been a Visiting Professor at University of Technology, Sydney, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), as well as Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in China.
Publications
Book
- Lu, Mingshan and Jonsson, Egon. Financing Health Care - New Ideas for a Changing Society Wiley-VCH (to appear), Print.
Journal Articles - Peer Reviewed
- Yuan, Suwei, Liu, Yan, Li, Na, Zhang, Yunting, Zhang, Zhe, Tao, Jingjing, Shi, Lizheng, Quan, Hude, Lu, Mingshan and Ma, Jin. "Impacts of Health Insurance Benefit Design on Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Use and Inpatient Costs among Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction in Shanghai, China". Pharmacoeconomics 2.3 (2014): 265-75. Print.
- Eggleston, Karen, Ellis, Randall and Lu, Mingshan. "Prevention and Risk Adjustment". Canadian Journal of Economics 45.4 (2012): 1586-1607. Print.
- Wang, Yang, Wang, Jian, Maitland, Elizabeth, Zhao, Yaohui, Nicholas, Stephen and Lu, Mingshan. "Growing Old Before Growing Rich: Inequality in health service utilization among the mid-aged and elderly in Gansu and Zhejiang Provinces, China". BMC Health Services Research, (2012): 12:302. Print.
- Cawthorpe, D, Wilkes, T. C. R., Guyn, Lindsay, Li, Bing and Lu, Mingshan. "Association of child and adolescent psychiatric and physical healthcare utilization and cost: A population-based case comparison". The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 56.8 (2011): 491-494. Print.
- Eggleston, Karen, Lu, Mingshan, Wang, Jian and Zhang, Jing. "Comparing Public and Private Hospitals in China: Evidence from Guangdong". BMC Health Services Research, (2010): 10:76. Print.
- Lien, Hsienming, Lu, Mingshan, Ma, Ching-to Albert and McGuire, G. Thomas. "Treatment Progress and Patient Compliance in Alcohol Therapy". Journal of Health Economics 29.2 (2010): 213-225. Print.
- Eggleston, Karen, Shen, Yu-Chu, Lu, Mingshan, Li, Congdong, Wang, Jian, Yang, Zhe and Zhang, Jing. "Soft budget constraints in China: Evidence from the Guangdong hospital industry". International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics 9.2 (2009): 233-242. Print.
- Lu, Mingshan, Jing, Zhang, Jin, Ma, Bing, Li and Quan, Hude. "Child Health Insurance Coverage: A Survey among temporary and permanent residents in Shanghai". BMC Health Services Research, (2008): 8:238. Print.
- Ma, Jin, Lu, Mingshan and Quan, Hude. "From A National, Centrally Planned Health System To A System Based On The Market: Lessons From China". Health Affairs 27.4 (2008): 937-948. Print.
- Liu, Meina, Zhang, Qiujiu, Lu, Mingshan, Kwon, Churl-Su and Quan, Hude. "Urban and Rural Disparity in Health Services Utilization in China". Medical Care 45.8 (2007): 767-774. Print.
- Chatterji, Pinka, Alegria, Margarita, Lu, Mingshan and Takeuchi, David. "Psychiatric Disorders and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS)". Health Economics 16.10 (2007): 1069-1090. Print.
- Lu, Mingshan and Ma, Ching-to Albert. "Financial Incentives and Gaming in Alcohol Treatment". Inquiry 43.1 (2006): 34-53. Print.
- Lu, Mingshan, Ma, Ching-to Albert and Yuan, Lasheng. "Risk Selection and Matching under Performance-Based Contracting". Health Economics 12.5 (2003): 339-354. Print.
- Lu, Mingshan and McGuire, Thomas G.. "The Productivity of Outpatient Treatment for Substance Abuse". The Journal of Human Resources 37.2 (2002): 309-335. Print.
- Lu, Mingshan. "Separating the True Effect from Gaming in Incentive-Based Contracts in Health Care,, Special Issue on The Industrial Organization of Health Care III". Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 8.3 (1999): 383-432. Print.
Curriculum Vitae
Degrees
- PhD - Economics
Boston University, 1997 - BEng - Management Information Systems
Tshinghua University, 1992
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