Overview
Jonathan Gruber is a professor of economics at MIT and a leading figure in health economics and public finance. He is known for empirical work on health insurance, disability insurance, social insurance design, and the economics of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). He served as a key architect of both Massachusetts healthcare reform (2006) and the ACA (2010). He holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Key Contributions / Features
- Co-authored Autor, Duggan, and Gruber (2014), estimating behavioral responses to LTD plan parameters and decomposing elimination period effects into censoring and deterrence.
- Designed key features of Massachusetts health reform (2006), which served as a template for the Affordable Care Act.
- Extensive empirical work on Medicaid expansion, CHIP, the labor market effects of employer-sponsored health insurance, and the economics of cigarette taxation.
- Author of the textbook Public Finance and Public Policy (multiple editions), widely used in graduate and undergraduate public economics courses.
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