Presidential Faculty Fellow

该奖项根据国家科学基金会的校长院士(PFF)计划向Jonathan Gruber博士提供支持。PFF计划是应美国总统的要求设立的，目的是表彰和支持美国一些最杰出的科学和工程教师在职业生涯早期的学术活动。奖项旨在允许研究员进行自己设计的创新研究和教学项目，建立研究和教学计划，以及从事其他与学术相关的活动。这一奖项将允许这位研究员继续他在公共经济学方面的研究，即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。他的研究致力于研究美国社会保险计划的两个关键经济问题。第一，社会保险计划应该如何融资？第二，社会保险计划对参保人有什么好处？他在该奖项五年期间的研究将从三个方面扩展他对社会保险计划好处的分析：健康、劳动力市场效率和消费平滑。具体地说，他将研究公共保险覆盖婴儿的健康福利；扩大幼儿公共保险对其医疗保健利用率、免疫率和健康的影响；向医生支付更多费用来看公共保险患者的利用率和健康影响；以及社会保险计划在缓解那些遭受失业等不利事件的人的消费下降方面的作用。在短短几年的时间里，格鲁伯博士已经确立了自己在经济学领域的重要地位。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，可以用来分析公共政策，测试替代经济理论，并估计重要的潜在行为参数。他也是本科生和研究生的优秀教师。去年，他被授予首届本科生经济学协会教学奖。这项为期五年的奖项将使他能够继续他的重要研究，并培训他帮助拓宽的公共财政领域的学生，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.