Amy Finkelstein

Short Biography

Amy Finkelstein is a Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is also the co-Director of the Public Economics Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where she is a Research Associate. She is a co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics and a member of the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her research is in public finance and health economics, specifically market failures in insurance markets and the impact of public policy on these markets.

Finkelstein received her AB summa cum laude in Government from Harvard University in 1995, and an M.Phil.in Economics from Oxford University in 1997, where she was a Marshall Scholar. She received her PhD in Economics from MIT in 2001. Prior to joining the MIT faculty in 2005, she was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.

She has received numerous awards and fellowships including the John Bates Clark Medal (2012), a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2009), the American Economic Association’s Elaine Bennett Research Prize (2008) and a Sloan Research Fellowship (2007), as well as awards for graduate student teaching and graduate student advising at MIT.