NBER profile: Amy Finkelstein.

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Amy Finkelstein is a Faculty Research Fellow in the NBER's Programs on Public Economics, Health Care, and the Economics of Aging, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at MIT. She received her AB in government from Harvard University in 1995, an M.Phil. in economics from Oxford University--where she was a Marshall Scholar--in 1997, and a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 2001.

Her research focuses on two main areas: market failures and government intervention in insurance markets; and the impact of public policy on the health care sector, particularly on the development and diffusion of...