David L. Weimer

David Weimer is the Emeritus Edwin E. Witte Professor of Political Economy.

His research focuses broadly on policy craft and institutional design. Although most of his recent research has addressed issues in health policy, he has done policy-relevant research in the areas of energy security, natural resource policy, education, criminal justice, and research methods.

Professor Weimer is the author of Negotiating Values: Implementing Change in the Allocation of Transplant Organs, Medical Governance: Values, Expertise, and Interests in Organ Transplantation and Behavioral Economics for Cost-Benefit Analysis. He is co-author of Dog Economics: Perspectives on Our Canine Relationships, Organizational Report Cards, Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practice (7th edition), and Cost-Benefit Analysis: Concepts and Practice (5th edition). His edited volumes include Institutional Design, The Political Economy of Property Rights, and Investing in the Disadvantaged: Assessing the Benefits and Costs of Social Policies. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Health Economics, the Journal of Health, Politics, Policy and Law, Health Services Research, Medical Care, and the Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis.

In 2006, Weimer served as president of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. In 2008, he was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, and in 2013 he served as president of the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis. He is the inaugural winner of the Policy Field Distinguished Contribution Award from the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management and the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis.