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Mark H. Showalter is a Professor of Economics at Brigham Young University. His research focuses on topics in health economics and the economics of education. Current research projects include modeling employer-provided health insurance, the economics of sleep choice and interactions with development of human capital, and the implications of college completion on intergenerational income inequality. He served as Senior Economist for Health, Education, Labor, and Welfare on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers in 2003-2004. He is a current member of the Health Insurance Simulation Model Technical Review Panel for the Congressional Budget Office. He is on the editorial board for the Economics of Education Review and serves on the board of the Center for Health & Economy in Washington DC.Professor Showalter received his Ph.D. from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his B.S. in Economics from Brigham Young University.
C. Arden Pope, III is the Mary Lou Fulton Professor of Economics at Brigham Young University. He received his Ph.D. from Iowa State University (1981), was a Fellow at the Harvard school of Public Health (Environmental Health and Public Policy, 1992/93), and is an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians (FCCP Hon, 2008). He has taught and conducted research dealing with various natural resource and environmental issues. He has collaborated on a series of seminal studies on the human health effects of air pollution. He has also played prominent roles in reviewing and interpreting the literature and is one of the world's most cited and recognized experts on the health effects of air pollution. He has served on various scientific advisory, editorial, and oversight panels, boards, and committees, including U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board and chair of the U.S. EPA Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis. He has also been the recipient of honors and awards including: Thomas T. Mercer Joint Prize from the American Association for Aerosol Research and the International Society for Aerosols in Medicine (2001); Utah Governor's Medal for Science & Technology (2004); BYU Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award (2006); and Gardner Prize, Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters (2014).
James H. Cardon is a Professor of Economics at Brigham Young University. His research focuses on various topics in health economics. Current research projects include Health Savings Accounts, FSAs, pharmaceutical advertising, medical malpractice policy, and the effects of sleep behavior on productivity. He has also written papers on adverse selection, school competition and R&D policy. Professor Cardon received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 1996.