Mark Duggan is The Wayne and Jodi Cooperman Professor of Economics at Stanford and was the Trione Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) from September 2015 through August 2024. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Before arriving to Stanford in 2014, Duggan previously was on the faculty at the University of Chicago (1999-2003), the University of Maryland (2003-2011), and the University of Pennsylvania (2011-2014). He has received teaching and/or advising awards at M.I.T., Harvard, the University of Chicago, the University of Maryland, and Stanford.

Duggan's research focuses on the health care sector and also on the effects of government expenditure programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid on the behavior of individuals and firms. Some of his more recent research is exploring the effects of privatizing general acute care hospitals on the quality and cost of medical care, the causes and consequences of homelessness along with policies to address it, and policies to improve the pricing of cancer drug treatments, which are 130 percent more expensive in the U.S. than in other industrialized countries. His research has been published in leading academic journals including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics and has been featured in many media outlets including The Economist, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

Duggan received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering at M.I.T. in 1992 and 1994, respectively, and his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1999.