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Mark C. Kelly
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Hankamer School of Business
Baylor University
One Bear Place #98001
Waco, TX 76798
254-710-6599
mark_kelly@baylor.edu

Ph.D., Economics, University of Georgia
B.S., Economics, Arizona State University

Research Interests: Macroeconomics, economic growth, health insurance, healthcare reform

Teaching: Principles of Macroeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, M.S. Macroeconomics

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Published Papers

 

Kelly, M.C. (2017). “Health Capital Accumulation, Health Insurance, and Aggregate Outcomes: A Neoclassical Approach.” Journal of Macroeconomics 52, 1-22.

Kelly, M.C. (2020). Medicare For All or Medicare For None? A Macroeconomic Analysis of Healthcare Reform.Journal of Macroeconomics 63, 103170.

Chatterjee, S., M.C. Kelly, and S.J. Turnovsky (2022). Foreign Aid, Public Investment, and the Informal Economy. Economic Inquiry 60(1), 174-201.

Kelly, M.C. (2022). “Growth and Welfare Implications of Mortality Differentials in Unfunded Social Security Systems” Public Finance Review 50(2), 206-235.

Kelly, M.C. and M. Kuhn (2022). "Congestion in a Public Health Service: A Macro Approach," Journal of Macroeconomics 74, 103451

Working Papers

 

"The Role of Foreign Capital Flows in Health Finance" (Revise & Resubmit at Economic Inquiry)

"Cost Disease and Physician Supply: An Analysis of Rising Healthcare Expenditures from the Supply Side," with Qian Wu

Research in Progress

 

"The Fiscal Challenge of Funding Healthcare: Examining the Trade-offs between Rising Public Healthcare Expenditures and Discretionary Government Spending," with Torben Klarl and Michael Kuhn

"Socially-Optimal Healthcare Spending in a Congested Public Health Service," with Torben Klarl and Michael Kuhn​

Endogenous Medical Progress and Economic Growth

"Public Infrastructure and Health Care Effectiveness in India," with Langley Cerovich

 

"The Effects of Public Infrastructure on Health, Economic Development, and the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid," with Langley Cerovich

"Research Grants or Scholarships? Optimal Higher Education Policy and Economic Growth"

Book Chapters

“Household Labor Supply and Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis.” (with Ronald S. Warren, Jr.) In Esther Redmount (Ed.), The Economics of the Family: How the Household Affects Markets and Economic Growth, Vol. 2 (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2015), 237-265.

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