NBER profile: Jonathan Gruber.

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Jonathan Gruber is Director of the NBER's Program on Children, an NBER Research Associate, and a Professor of Economics at MIT, where he has taught since 1992. He is also a co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Health Economics.

Gruber received his B.S. in Economics from MIT and his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. He was the recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, a FIRST award from the National Institute on Aging, and the Kenneth Arrow Award for the Best Paper in Health Economics in 1994. He was also one of 15 scientists nationwide to receive the Presidential Faculty Fellow Award from the National Science Foundation in 1995. During the 1997-8 academic year, Gruber was on leave as Deputy...