NBER profile: Amy Finkelstein.

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

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 medical technology.

Prior to joining the MIT faculty in 2005, Finkelstein was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows (2002-5), and a Visiting Scholar in the Demography of Aging at the NBER (2000-2). From 1997 to 1998, she worked as a Staff Economist for the Council of Economic Advisers.

Finkelstein lives in Cambridge with her husband, and fellow economist, Ben Olken.