Education
University of Oxford. Harvard University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
University of Oxford. Harvard University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
She was awarded the 2012 John Bates Clark Meda for her contributions to economics. She is a co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics. Finkelstein"s primary expertise is in public finance and health economics, and she conducts research into market failures and government intervention in insurance markets, and the impact of public policy on health care.
Finkelstein is one of two Principal Investigators of the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, a randomized evaluation of the impact of expanding Medicaid to low-income adults.
She studied Government at Harvard University, where she received an Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude in 1995. She was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University, where she received an The Master of Philosophy in Economics in 1997.
She received her Doctor of Philosophy in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001 under supervision of James M. Poterba and Jonathan Gruber. She was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, after which she joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty in 2005.
The award cited her research as “a model of how theory and empirics can be combined in creative ways.”.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.