Jonathan Kolstad

Education

• PhD, Harvard University
  
• BA, Stanford University
  

Positions Held

• At Haas since 2015
  
• 2015 – present, Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
  
• 2009 – 2015, Assistant Professor, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
  

Current Research and Interests

• Health economics
• Industrial organization
•  Public economics
• Applied microeconomics

Selected Papers and Publications

• Health Insurance for “Humans”: Information Frictions, Plan Choice, and Consumer Welfare” (with Ben Handel), American Economic Review, 2015, 105(8): 2449-2500.
• “Adverse Selection and an Individual Mandate: When Theory Meets Practice” (with Martin Hackmann and Amanda Kowalski), American Economic Review_, 2015, 105(3): 1030-6.
• “Information and Quality when Motivation is Intrinsic: Evidence from Surgeon Report Cards” American Economic Review_, 2013, 103(7): 2875-2910.
• “The Impact of Health Care Reform On Hospital and Preventive Care: Evidence from Massachusetts” (with Amanda Kowalski), Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96(11-12): 909-912.
• “Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons From Cardiac Surgery”_ (with David Cutler and Robert Huckman), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy_, 2010, 2(1): 51-76.

Teaching

• Health Economics (Undergraduate and PhD)
• eHealth: Business Models and Impact (MBA)

Honors and Awards

• Barbara Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
• Arrow Award, Internation Health Economics Association (Best Paper in Health Economics) 2014
• 3rd Biennial Student Paper Award, American Society of Health Economists (given every 2 years for the best sole authored student paper in health economics), 2009