Joshua Gottlieb is an economist at the University of Chicago, where he is Associate Professor in the Harris School of Public Policy and Deputy Director of the Becker-Friedman Institute's Health Economics Initiative. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Gottlieb is an expert on the economics of the healthcare system, including the organization of insurance markets, healthcare labor markets, administrative costs, the geography of healthcare, and physician behavior. His research spans health, labor, urban, and public economics.
Gottlieb has published in leading academic journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Health Economics, and Review of Financial Studies. He won the 2015 Kenneth Arrow Award for best paper in health economics and the 2012 National Tax Association Dissertation Award for this work.
Gottlieb’s research focuses on questions directly relevant to public policy. He is a member of the Medicaid Managed Care Oversight Commission for the State of Illinois. He has written policy proposals and opinion columns that have influenced economic policy in the United States and Canada, and his work is research is regularly cited by leading policymakers.
Gottlieb completed his Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University in 2012. He was previously an Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University, a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and a Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics.
Gottlieb has published in leading academic journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Health Economics, and Review of Financial Studies. He won the 2015 Kenneth Arrow Award for best paper in health economics and the 2012 National Tax Association Dissertation Award for this work.
Gottlieb’s research focuses on questions directly relevant to public policy. He is a member of the Medicaid Managed Care Oversight Commission for the State of Illinois. He has written policy proposals and opinion columns that have influenced economic policy in the United States and Canada, and his work is research is regularly cited by leading policymakers.
Gottlieb completed his Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University in 2012. He was previously an Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University, a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and a Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics.