Joshua Gottlieb is a Professor at the University of Chicago, where he leads the Becker-Friedman Institute's Health Economics Initiative and is Executive Director of the University's Research Data Center. Gottlieb completed his Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University in 2012 and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an expert on the economics of healthcare, including provider-insurer relationships, healthcare workers' employment and labor markets, physician behavior, entrepreneurship, economic geography, and scale economies in healthcare.
Gottlieb's research on health, labor, urban, and public economics is published in leading academic journals including The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, and American Economic Review. This work has been recognized with the Kenneth J. Arrow Award for best paper in health economics and the National Tax Association Outstanding Dissertation Award. Gottlieb teaches microeconomics and healthcare economics to undergraduates and graduate students at the Harris School of Public Policy.
Gottlieb's research focuses on economic questions relevant to public policy. He appears in the media and on podcasts, and his research has been covered by major news outlets. He has written policy proposals and opinion columns that have influenced economic policy in the United States and Canada, and his research is regularly cited by leading policymakers.
Gottlieb is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Health Economics and a member of the Journal of Economic Literature's Board of Editors. He was previously a Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics, a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University, an Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, and a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
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