Current Apppointments

  • Professor, University of Chicago, Harris Public Policy
  • Research Associate, NBER
  • Co-Director, BFI Health Economics Initiative
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Health Economics
  • Board of Editors, Journal of Economic Literature


Joshua Gottlieb is a Professor at the University of Chicago, in the Harris School of Public Policy. He leads the Becker-Friedman Institute's Health Economics Initiative and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Gottlieb is an expert on the economics of healthcare, including provider-insurer relationships, healthcare workers' employment and labor markets, physician behavior, entrepreneurship, economic geography, and scale economies in healthcare. His research spans health, labor, urban, and public economics.

Gottlieb completed his Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University in 2012. He has published in leading academic journals such as The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, and American Economic Review. His research has been recognized by the International Health Economics Association with the Kenneth J. Arrow Award for best paper in health economics and the National Tax Association with its Outstanding Dissertation Award.

Gottlieb's research focuses on questions directly relevant to public policy. He appears in the media and on podcasts, and his research has been covered by major news outlets. He has written policy proposals and opinion columns that have influenced economic policy in the United States and Canada, and his research is regularly cited by leading policymakers.

Gottlieb is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Health Economics and a member of the Journal of Economic Literature's Board of Editors. He was previously a Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics, a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University, an Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, and a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

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