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. His research focuses on the economics of the healthcare system, including the organization of insurance markets, physician behavior, administrative costs, implications for labor economics, and the geography of healthcare. In other areas of applied microeconomics, he studies public finance, labor economics, and urban economics. Gottlieb is a Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Gottlieb has published in leading academic journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Labor 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 and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University.
Gottlieb has published in leading academic journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Labor 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 and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University.