Amy Finkelstein

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Full Name	Amy Finkelstein
Occupation	Economist
Date Of Birth	Nov 2, 1973(1973-11-02)
Age	51
Birthplace	New York
Country	United States
Horoscope	Scorpio

Amy Finkelstein Biography

Amy Finkelstein is one of the most popular and richest Economist who was born on November 2, 1973 in New York, United States. Amy Nadya Finkelstein (born November 2nd 1973) is an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as well as Research Associate and co-director for the Public Economics Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research as well as the co-Scientific director of J-PAL North America. She was presented with in 2012 the John Bates Clark Medal for her contribution to the field of economics. Her election to the National Academy of Sciences and was awarded an award of a MacArthur “Genius” fellowship in the year 2018.

Finkelstein’s expertise is in the fields of public health economics and finance with a particular focus in health insurance. She conducts research on the failures of markets and interventions by the government in the insurance market, as well as the effects of government policy on health care as well as health insurance. Along together with Katherine Baicker, she is one of the two principal investigators in the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, an evaluation that is randomized of the effect in expanding Medicaid to people with low incomes. Her research has proven that newly-enrolled Medicaid patients are more likely to make trips in general to healthcare providers following the acquisition of insurance, have more trips to emergency rooms, and also benefit financially from insurance, in addition to other results. Finkelstein claimed that the body of research which includes her research on the effect on health of patients who enrolled in the Medicaid extension in Oregon and Washington, has made her certain that health insurance can improve health.

in 2008 Finkelstein received her the Elaine Bennett Research Prize by the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) in recognition of her contribution to the economy profession. She was awarded the award in 2012. received the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association. The award recognized her work in the context of “a model of how theory and empirics can be combined in creative ways”.

Amy Finkelstein Net Worth

Amy Finkelstein is one of the richest Economist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Amy Finkelstein 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Finkelstein was a student of the government in the US at Harvard University, where she was a Truman Scholar and received an AB summa cum laude award in 1995. While at Harvard she discovered that her passion for economics was influenced by her participation in the economics professor Lawrence Katz’s class “Social Problems in the American Economy”. She was an Marshall Scholar at Oxford University and earned an M.Phil. on economics at the age of 1997. She earned her doctorate in economics at MIT in 2001 under the supervision by James M. Poterba and Jonathan Gruber.

Finkelstein was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows for three years. After that, she was accepted into in the MIT Faculty in the year 2005. She was granted tenure in just three years.

In 2016, MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences named Finkelstein the John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor for a five-year term. The professorship was established with a gift by Edmund MacDonald, and recognizes Finkelstein’s outstanding achievements in the field of economics.

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Amy Ranked on the list of most popular Economist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Amy Finkelstein celebrates birthday on November 2 of every year.