Presidential Faculty Fellow

该奖项为国家科学基金会总统学院研究员（PFF）计划下的Jonathan Gruber博士提供支持。 PFF计划是应美国总统的要求建立的，以表彰和支持一些国家最杰出的科学和工程教师在职业生涯早期的学术活动。 奖项旨在让研究员进行自我设计，创新的研究和教学项目，建立研究和教学计划，并追求其他学术相关活动。 该奖项将允许研究者继续他在公共经济学方面的研究，研究税收和政府支出计划如何影响经济活动。 他的专长是社会保险计划的分析。 他的研究一直致力于调查美国社会保险计划的两个关键经济问题。 第二，社会保险计划对参加者有什么好处？ 他在五年的研究期间，将沿着健康、劳动力市场效率和消费平滑沿着三个维度对社会保险计划的好处进行分析。 具体而言，他将研究公共保险覆盖婴儿的健康福利;公共保险扩大对幼儿的医疗保健利用率，免疫接种率和健康的影响;利用和健康影响支付医生更多的公共保险患者;以及社会保险计划在缓解那些遭受失业等不利事件的消费下降方面的作用。 格鲁伯博士在短短几年内就确立了自己作为经济学主要力量的地位。 他的工作为经济主体对经济环境外生变化的行为反应提供了可信的证据，可用于分析公共政策，测试替代经济理论，并估计重要的潜在行为参数。 他也是一位优秀的本科生和研究生教师。 去年，他获得了首届本科经济学协会教学奖。 这个为期五年的奖项将使他能够继续他的重要研究，以及培养学生在公共财政领域，他已经帮助扩大到包括公共财政，卫生经济学和劳动经济学。

This award provides support to Dr. Jonathan Gruber under the National Science Foundation's Presidential Faculty Fellows (PFF) Program. The PFF Program was established at the request of the President of the United States to recognize and support the scholarly activities of some of the Nation's most outstanding science and engineering faculty members early in their careers. Awards are intended to allow Fellows to undertake self-designed, innovative research and teaching projects, to establish research and teaching programs, and to pursue other academic related activities. This award will allow the investigator to pursue his research in public economics, the study of how taxes and government spending programs affect economic activity. His particular specialty is the analysis of social insurance programs. His research has been devoted to investigating two key economic questions about social insurance programs in the U.S. First, how should social insurance programs be financed? Second, what are the benefits of social insurance programs for participants? His research over the five-year period of the award will extend his analysis of the benefits of social insurance programs along three dimensions: health, labor market efficiency, and consumption smoothing. Specifically, he will study the health benefits of public insurance coverage for infants; the effect of public insurance expansions for young children on their utilization of medical care, immunization rates, and health; the utilization and health implications paying physicians more to see publicly insured patients; and the role of social insurance programs in alleviating the consumption fall for those who suffer adverse events such as unemployment. Dr. Gruber has established himself as a major force in economics in just a few short years. His work provides plausible evidence on the behavioral responses of economic agents to exogenous changes in the economic environment that can be used to analyze public policies, test alternative economic theories, and estimate important underlying behavioral parameters. He is also an excellent teacher of undergraduate and graduate students. Last year he was awarded the first Undergraduate Economics Association Teaching Prize. This five year award will enable him to continue his important research as well as to train students in the field of public finance which he has helped to broaden to include public finance, health economics, and labor economics.