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Amy Finkelstein

Amy Finkelstein

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
67
Citations
23376
World Ranking
534
National Ranking
349

Amy Finkelstein publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Amy Finkelstein sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 273 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Amy Finkelstein D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Amy Finkelstein sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
  • 2018 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2012 - John Bates Clark Medal, the American Economic Association
  • 2012 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2007 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Amy Finkelstein is affiliated with MIT in the United States and specializes in Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with a specific focus on Economics and Econometrics. Their research also extends into fields related to health, including General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Oncology.

The topics covered by their work include:

  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth

Recent notable papers by Amy Finkelstein include:

  • "Place-Based Drivers of Mortality: Evidence from Migration," 2021, American Economic Review
  • "Welfare Analysis Meets Causal Inference," 2020, The Journal of Economic Perspectives

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Amy Finkelstein include:

  • Liran Einav (42 publications)
  • Ray Fisman (17 publications)
  • Neale Mahoney (9 publications)
  • Matthew Notowidigdo (6 publications)
  • Maria Polyakova (5 publications)

Primary publication venues for their research are:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (15 publications)
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials (6 publications)
  • The Review of Economics and Statistics (4 publications)
  • Harvard Dataverse (4 publications)
  • American Economic Review (3 publications)

The scientist has contributed to book publications, with works published by:

  • Yale University Press - including "Risky Business" (2023)
  • RAND Corporation eBooks - including "Hospital Behavior Over the Private Equity Life Cycle" (2023)

Amy Finkelstein has received multiple awards throughout their career, such as:

  • Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation (2018)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2018)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2012)
  • John Bates Clark Medal, American Economic Association (2012)
  • Fellow of the Econometric Society (2012)
  • Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2007)

Best Publications

  • The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year*

    Amy Finkelstein;Sarah Taubman;Bill Wright;Mira Bernstein

  • The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year

    Amy Finkelstein;Sarah Taubman;Bill Wright;Mira Bernstein

  • Multiple Dimensions of Private Information: Evidence from the Long-Term Care Insurance Market

    Amy Finkelstein;Kathleen McGarry

  • E-ztax: Tax Salience and Tax Rates

    Amy Finkelstein

  • Adverse Selection in Insurance Markets: Policyholder Evidence from the U.K. Annuity Market

    Amy Finkelstein;James Poterba

  • The Aggregate Effects of Health Insurance: Evidence from the Introduction of Medicare

    Amy Finkelstein

  • WHAT GOOD IS WEALTH WITHOUT HEALTH? THE EFFECT OF HEALTH ON THE MARGINAL UTILITY OF CONSUMPTION

    Amy Finkelstein;Erzo F. P. Luttmer;Matthew J. Notowidigdo

  • The Interaction of Public and Private Insurance: Medicaid and the Long-Term Care Insurance Market

    Jeffrey R. Brown;Amy Finkelstein

  • The Economic Consequences of Hospital Admissions.

    Carlos Dobkin;Amy Finkelstein;Raymond Kluender;Matthew J. Notowidigdo

  • Sources of Geographic Variation in Health Care: Evidence From Patient Migration

    Amy Finkelstein;Matthew Gentzkow;Heidi Williams

  • Estimating Welfare in Insurance Markets Using Variation in Prices

    Liran Einav;Amy Finkelstein;Mark R. Cullen

  • Selection on Moral Hazard in Health Insurance.

    Liran Einav;Amy Finkelstein;Stephen P. Ryan;Paul Schrimpf

  • Why is the market for long-term care insurance so small? ☆

    Jeffrey R. Brown;Amy Finkelstein

  • SELECTION EFFECTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM INDIVIDUAL ANNUITIES MARKET

    Amy Finkelstein;James Poterba

  • Take-up and Targeting: Experimental Evidence from SNAP

    Amy Finkelstein;Matthew J Notowidigdo

  • Selection in Insurance Markets: Theory and Empirics in Pictures

    Liran Einav;Amy Finkelstein

  • The RAND Health Insurance Experiment, Three Decades Later

    Aviva Aron-Dine;Liran Einav;Amy Finkelstein

  • Preference Heterogeneity and Insurance Markets: Explaining a Puzzle of Insurance

    David M. Cutler;Amy Finkelstein;Kathleen McGarry

  • The Private Market for Long‐Term Care Insurance in the United States: A Review of the Evidence

    Jeffrey R. Brown;Amy Finkelstein

  • Health Care Exceptionalism? Performance and Allocation in the US Health Care Sector

    Amitabh Chandra;Amy Finkelstein;Adam Sacarny;Chad Syverson

  • The Impact of Medicaid on Labor Market Activity and Program Participation: Evidence from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment.

    Katherine Baicker;Amy Finkelstein;Jae Song;Sarah Taubman

  • What did Medicare do? The initial impact of Medicare on mortality and out of pocket medical spending

    Amy Finkelstein;Robin McKnight

  • How general are risk preferences? Choices under uncertainty in different domains

    Liran Einav;Amy Finkelstein;Iuliana Pascu;Mark R Cullen

  • The Value of Medicaid: Interpreting Results from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment

    Amy Finkelstein;Nathaniel Hendren;Erzo F.P. Luttmer

  • Estimating Welfare in Insurance Markets Using Variation in Prices

    Mark Cullen;Liran Einav;Amy Finkelstein

  • Adverse Selection in Insurance Markets: Policyholder Evidence from the U.K. Annuity Market

    Amy Finkelstein;Amy Finkelstein;James M. Poterba;James M. Poterba

Frequent Co-Authors

Liran Einav
Liran Einav Stanford University
Katherine Baicker
Katherine Baicker University of Chicago
Matthew J. Notowidigdo
Matthew J. Notowidigdo Northwestern University
Kathleen McGarry
Kathleen McGarry Stony Brook University
Erzo F. P. Luttmer
Erzo F. P. Luttmer Dartmouth College
Amitabh Chandra
Amitabh Chandra Harvard University
Jeffrey R. Brown
Jeffrey R. Brown University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chad Syverson
Chad Syverson University of Chicago

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