Willard G. Manning, Jr.

Who is Willard G. Manning, Jr.?

Willard G. Manning is a Professor Emeritus in the Harris School of Public Policy Studies and in the Department of Health Studies in the Division of the Biological Sciences at the University of Chicago. Manning’s primary area of interest has been the effects of health insurance. He has studied the demand for various health services under both fee-for-service cost-sharing and prepaid insurance, as well as the impact on the appropriateness of care and health status. He was one of the senior investigators on the RAND Health Insurance Experiment, a randomized trial of alternative insurance plans conducted from 1974-1982. He has examined the health effects of insuring the formerly uninsured when the near-elderly become Medicare-eligible at age 65. In recent work, he has examined the optimal insurance coverage for preventive care and treatment, considering the trade-off between the costs from moral hazard and the gains from risk-pooling across medical services and over time in health insurance.