James M. Poterba
Jim Poterba | |
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Born | New York City, U.S. | July 13, 1958
Education | Harvard University (BA) Nuffield College, Oxford (MPhil, PhD) |
Spouse | Nancy Rose[8] |
Academic career | |
Institution | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Field | Public economics |
Doctoral students | David Cutler[1] Luigi Zingales[2] Andrew Samwick Caroline Hoxby[3] Steven Levitt[4] Emmanuel Saez[5] Amy Finkelstein[6] Stefanie Stantcheva[7] |
Influences | Martin Feldstein |
Awards | NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing (1997) |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc |
James Michael "Jim" Poterba, FBA (born July 13, 1958) is an American economist who is the Mitsui Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and current National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) president and chief executive officer.
Early years
Poterba was born in New York City. He attended
Academic career
Poterba started his career as an instructor in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He became Professor of Economics at MIT in 1988. Today, he is the Mitsui Professor of Economics.[8] He became the president of the National Bureau of Economic Research on 1 July 2008.[citation needed]
Research
Poterba is known for his research on how
He has also been Director of the NBER Public Economics Research Program since 1991. He has served as a member of the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform and edited the Journal of Public Economics, the leading international journal for research on taxation and government spending, between 1997 and 2006. He has edited several economics journals.[8]
Honors
He was elected a Fellow of the
In July 2017, Poterba was elected a
Personal life
Poterba is married to economist Nancy Rose.[8]
References
- ^ David Cutler (1991). Estimating the effect of reimbursement policy on medical outcomes (Ph.D.). MIT. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
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- hdl:1721.1/11964.
- hdl:1721.1/38434.
- ^ Finkelstein, Amy (2001), Adverse selection and government intervention in life and health insurance markets. Ph.D. dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
- hdl:1721.1/90133.
- ^ a b c d e "James Michael Poterba". Archived from the original on 9 December 2018. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
- ^ "Nationals History".
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter P" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
- ^ "NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing". National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on March 18, 2011. Retrieved February 27, 2011.
- ^ "Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research". British Academy. 21 July 2017. Retrieved 22 December 2018.