Jonathan Gruber (economist)

Jon Gruber
Gruber in 2014
Born (1965-09-30) September 30, 1965 (age 59)
EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology (BS)
Harvard University (MA, PhD)
Academic career
FieldHealth economics
InstitutionMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral
advisor		Lawrence F. Katz[1]
Doctoral
students		Susan Dynarski[2]
Amy Finkelstein[3]
Melissa Kearney
Ebonya Washington[4]
Botond Kőszegi[5]
Amanda Kowalski
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Jonathan Holmes Gruber (born September 30, 1965) is an American professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1992.[6] He is also the director of the Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he is a research associate. An associate editor of both the Journal of Public Economics and the Journal of Health Economics, Gruber has been heavily involved in crafting public health policy.

He has been described as a key architect[7] of both the 2006 Massachusetts health care reform, sometimes referred to as "Romneycare", and the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, sometimes referred to as the "ACA" and "Obamacare". He became the focus of media and political controversy in late 2014 when videos surfaced in which he made controversial statements about the legislative process, marketing strategies, and public perception surrounding the passage of the ACA.

  1. ^ Gruber, Jonathan Holmes (August 10, 1992). Changes in the Structure of Employer Provided Health Insurance (PhD in Economics thesis). Harvard University. ProQuest 304000122.
  2. ^ Dynarski, Susan (1999), Student aid and college attendance: analysis of government intervention in the higher education. Ph.D. dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  3. ^ Finkelstein, Amy (2001), Adverse selection and government intervention in life and health insurance markets. Ph.D. dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  4. ^ Washington, Ebonya (2003), Essays in public finance. Ph.D. dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  5. ^ Kőszegi, Botond (2000-06-08), Essays in Behavioral Economics (Thesis), MIT (published 2000), hdl:1721.1/74883
  6. ^ "Jonathan Gruber". MIT Economics. Retrieved December 16, 2014.
  7. ^ Kliff, Sarah (October 11, 2011). "Everything you wanted to know about health reform, in one comic book". Wonkblog. The Washington Post.