Amy Nadya Finkelstein was born on November 2,1973 and is a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the co-director and research associate of the Public Economics Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the co-Scientific Director of J-PAL North America.
10 Facts About Amy Finkelstein
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Amy Finkelstein was awarded the 2012 John Bates Clark Medal for her contributions to economics.
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Amy Finkelstein was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and won a MacArthur "Genius" fellowship in 2018.
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Amy Finkelstein received her PhD in economics from MIT in 2001 under supervision of James M Poterba and Jonathan Gruber.
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Amy Finkelstein was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows for three years, after which she joined the MIT faculty in 2005 and received tenure within three years.
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Amy Finkelstein conducts research into market failures and government intervention in insurance markets, and the impact of public policy on health care and health insurance.
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Amy Finkelstein's research has shown that newly enrolled Medicaid patients make more trips overall to providers after acquiring insurance, make more visits to emergency rooms, and benefit financially from having insurance, among other findings.
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Amy Finkelstein said that the body of research, including her work on the effects of the 2008 Medicaid expansion in Oregon, have made her confident that health insurance improves health.
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In 2008, Amy Finkelstein was awarded the Elaine Bennett Research Prize by the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, for her contributions to the economics profession.
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Amy Finkelstein was born in New York City in 1973 to biologist parents, who both earned doctorates at The Rockefeller University.