Norma B. Coe, PhD
Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute, University of Pennsylvania
Affiliate Faculty, Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center, University of Pennsylvania
Co-Director, Analysis Core, Center for Improving Care Delivery for the Aging (CICADA), University of Pennsylvania
Member, Institute on Aging (IoA), University of Pennsylvania
Research Associate, Population Aging Research Center, University of Pennsylvania
Research Associate, Population Studies Center (PSC), University of Pennsylvania
Co-Director, Get Experience in Aging Research Undergraduate Program (Gear-UP), University of Pennsylvania
Division Leader, Division of Epidemiology, Social Science, and Policy at the Institute on Aging, University of Pennsylvania
HEDAP Faculty Co-Director, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI), University of Pennsylvania
Director of Research, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI), University of Pennsylvania
Department: Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Graduate Group Affiliations
Contact information
Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Health Policy Division
11th Fl Blockley Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Health Policy Division
11th Fl Blockley Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Email:
nbcoe@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
nbcoe@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Education:
BA (Economics)
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 1997.
PhD (Economics)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA , 2005.
Permanent linkBA (Economics)
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 1997.
PhD (Economics)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA , 2005.
Selected Publications
Coe NB, Sun C, Van Houtven CH, Basu A, Konetzka RT: Home-Based Care Outcomes: Does the Care Provider Matter? Health Economics 34(8): 1487-1506, Aug 2025.Coe NB, Rosenkranz DA: Provider Payment Incentives: Evidence from the U.S. Hospice Industry. Journal of Public Economics 248(105435), Aug 2025.
Chatterjee P, Wang M, Chen X, Kim S, Coe NB, Joynt Maddox KE, Murphy K, Werner RM: Mixed Evidence That Rural Hospitals' Finances Improved with Participation in the Pennsylvania Rural Health Model. Health Affairs 44(7): 788-795, Jul 2025.
Zahodne LB, Miller K, Sun C, Sharifian N, Parisi JM, Rebok GW, Aiken Morgan AT, Gross AL, Thomas KR, Felix C, Coe NB.: Perceived Control, Cognitive Training, and Incident Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias in the ACTIVE Study. The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 80(7): gbaf086, Jul 2025.
NB Coe, Tamara KR, Sun C, Van Houtven, CH : Long-term care insurance within married couples: Can’t insure one without the other? Review of Economics of the Household, Springer US Page: 1-32, May 2025.
Miller KEM, Coe NB, Kreider AR, Hoffman A, Rhode K, Gonalons-Pons P: Increasing Expenditures on Home-and-Community-Based Services: Do Home Care Workers Benefit? Health Services Research 60 Suppl 2(Suppl 2): e14399, Apr 2025.
Fabius CD, Chen J, Coe NB, Drabo EF, Fashaw-Walters S, Rivera-Hernandez M, Sadarangani T. : Leveraging data, technology, and policy to address disparities for persons living with Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease related dementias. Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association 21(4): e70186, Apr 2025.
Werner RM, Coe NB, Kim S, Konetza RT: The Effects of Post-Acute Care Payment Reform on the Need for and Receipt of Caregiving. American Journal of Health Economics 11(2): 247-273 Apr 2025.
Coe NB, Werner RM: Your Parents Deserve More from Their Nursing Home (Guest Essay). The New York Times Feb 2025 Notes: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/opinion/nursing-home-care-parents.html.
Coe NB, Sun C, White L, Shapiro LN, Taylor JS, Crane PK: Health care utilization and cost differences across cognitively-defined Alzheimer’s disease subgroups. Alzheimer's & Dementia; The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association. Public Health 20(S7): e13338, Jan 2025.