Mario Macis, PhD

• Professor
  Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
• Professor
  Johns Hopkins Carey Business School

Mario Macis is a Professor of Economics at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and part of the Leadership Team at the Hopkins Business of Health Initiative.

Dr. Macis’ primary focus is on understanding the factors that influence people’s support for markets and market-based solutions to social problems, attitudes toward regulation and technology, and the impact of these elements on economic and social outcomes. Although his research is primarily in economics, much of his work is interdisciplinary. Dr. Macis has published in leading academic journals, including the American Economic Review, the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, the Journal of Labor Economics, the Journal of Health Economics, the Journal of Development Economics, Management Science, Sociological Science, and Science.

Dr. Macis has been a consultant for the World Bank, the International Labor Organization, the National Marrow Donor Program, and the United Nations Development Program. In 2021-2022, he served on a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee on “A Fairier and More Equitable, Cost-Effective, and Transparent System of Donor Organ Procurement, Allocation, and Distribution.”

Visit his personal webpage at https://mariomacis.net/.