Professor Anthony Scott
ARC Future Fellow and Professorial Research Fellow
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Location:
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Level 6, Alan Gilbert Building
The University of Melbourne
Biography
Tony is a Professorial Fellow at the Melbourne Institute. He holds an ARC Future Fellowship and an Honorary NHMRC Principal Research Fellowship. He leads the Health Economics Research Programme at the Melbourne Institute. Previously, Tony has worked at the Universities of Aberdeen, Newcastle, Sydney and York. He has a PhD in economics from the University of Aberdeen. Tony is also an Honorary Professor in the School of Population Health and Australian Health Workforce Institute, University of Melbourne, and in the Health Economics Research Unit at the University of Aberdeen. Tony is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Health Economics. He has published extensively in a range of journals including Journal of Health Economics, Health Economics, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, Journal of Economic Psychology, Social Science and Medicine, and British Medical Journal. Tony has also authored a chapter in the Handbook of Health Economics and edited a book Advances in Health Economics (with Alan Maynard and Bob Elliott).
Research Interests / Current Projects
Tony's research interests include the role of financial and other incentives in changing the behaviour and improving the performance of health care providers, with a focus on general practice and primary care and the labour markets of health care professionals. Tony is principal investigator on the Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment of Life panel survey of 10,498 doctors, with Wave 4 due to go out in 2011 (www.mabel.org.au). Funded by the NHMRC, this project focuses on labour supply and participation decisions by doctors, including mobility across geographical areas. De-identified data are available for others to use. He is also principal investigator on an NHMRC Partnerships Project grant: Measuring and explaining hospital performance. This is funded for 5 years with the Department of Health (Victoria) as a research partner.
Professor Scott's SSRN Author Page
Selected Publications / Papers
Campbell S, Scott A, Parker R, Naccarella L, Furler J, Young D, Sivey P. Implementing pay-for-performance in Australian primary care: Lessons learned from the UK and the USA. Medical Journal of Australia (accepted July 2010).
Young D, Scott A, Best J. For love or money? Changing the way GPs are paid to provide diabetes care. Medical Journal of Australia, 2010: 193; 67-68 (editorial)
McGrail M, Humphreys J, Scott A, Joyce C, Kalb G. Professional satisfaction and general practice: Does it vary by size of community? Medical Journal of Australia, 2010: 193; 94-98.
Scott A., Coote B. Do Regional Primary Care Organisations Influence Primary Care Performance? A Dynamic Panel Estimation. Health Economics 19(6) 2010
Seymour J., McNamee P., Scott A., Tinelli M. Shedding new light onto the ceiling and floor? A quantile regression approach to compare EQ-5D and SF-6D responses. Health Economics 19(6) 2010
Joyce CM, Scott A, Jeon S, Humphreys J, Kalb G, Witt J, Leahy A. The Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL) longitudinal survey Protocol and baseline data for a prospective cohort study of Australian doctors workforce participation. BMC Health Services Research 10:50; 2010
Scott, A, Schurer, S, Jensen, P.H, Sivey, P. The Effects of an Incentive Program on Quality of Care in Diabetes Management. Health Economics 2009; 18:1091-1108
Witt J., Scott A., Osborne R. Designing Choice Experiments with Many Attributes. An Application to Setting Priorities for Orthopaedic Waiting Lists. Health Economics 2009;18:681-696
Farrar S., Yi D., Sutton M., Chalkley M., Sussex J., Scott A. Has Payment by Results affected the way that English hospitals provide care? A difference-in-differences analysis. British Medical Journal, 2009;339: