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Dr. Chaloupka is one of the world's leading experts on the economics of tobacco use and tobacco control, recently co-authoring the World Bank's policy report: Curbing the Epidemic: Governments and the Economics of Tobacco Control and co-editing the volume Tobacco Control in Developing Countries containing the background papers prepared for the report. In addition, Dr. Chaloupka contributed a section on the effects of cigarette taxes and prices on youth smoking for the 1994 Surgeon General's report, and recently completed a lengthy chapter on the economics of tobacco for the most recent U.S. Surgeon General's report on which he is Consulting Scientific Editor. Numerous other professional publications and presentations have resulted from his research on the effects of prices and substance control policies on cigarette smoking and other tobacco use, alcohol use and abuse, and illicit drug use, as well as on various outcomes related to substance use and abuse including in such journals as the Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Journal of Health Economics, Economic Inquiry, Eastern Economic Journal, Southern Economic Journal, and Contemporary Economic Policy; and numerous book chapters and working papers. Dr. Chaloupka's research has been funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), and others. Currently, Dr. Chaloupka directs the ImpacTeen project, funded by a five-year, $13.5 million grant from RWJF, and is Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on grants/contracts from NCI, CDC, RWJF, and others providing nearly $10 million in additional funding. Dr. Chaloupka is a professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Business Administration. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research Health Economics Program. He received his doctorate in economics from the City University of New York Graduate School in 1988.
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