Amy Finkelstein
Born on November 2nd, 1973 in New York city, Amy Finkelstein is currently a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research focuses primarily in public finance and health economics. One of the projects she is currently working on is the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, which tracks how effective Medicaid coverage is for low-income uninsured adults.
She has also received many awards for her work in economics, such as the John Bates Medal and the American Society of Health Economists’ ASHEcon Medal. Her paper titled The Aggregate Effects of Health Insurance: Evidence From the Introduction of Medicare has been cited 205 times, and is about the effect of the introduction of Medicare in 1965 on hospital spending.
She has also received many awards for her work in economics, such as the John Bates Medal and the American Society of Health Economists’ ASHEcon Medal. Her paper titled The Aggregate Effects of Health Insurance: Evidence From the Introduction of Medicare has been cited 205 times, and is about the effect of the introduction of Medicare in 1965 on hospital spending.
She received the John Bates Clark Medal for the best economist under forty. It is a very prestigious award, perhaps more important than the Nobel because it reflects more on recent work.
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