Commonwealth University to Host Economics Lecture Focused on Health Insurance
Bloomsburg, PA (03/31/2025) — University of Chicago economics professor Matthew J. Notowidigdo will give a lecture, "What Does Health Insurance Do?" on Thursday, April 3, at 2 p.m. in Commonwealth University-Bloomsburg's Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall. The talk is part of Commonwealth University's Economics Lecture Series.
The lecture will also be live-streamed, and the link will be available at www.commonwealthu.edu/economics-lectures.
Notowidigdo, the David McDaniel Keller Professor of Economics and Business and Public Policy Fellow at the University of Chicago, studies a broad set of topics in labor economics and health economics. In labor economics, his research has focused on understanding the causes and consequences of long-term unemployment and the economic effects of unemployment insurance over the business cycle. Notowidigdo's research in health economics focuses on the effects of public health insurance on labor supply and the effects of income on health spending. He is currently working with several state governments on large-scale randomized experiments of existing social insurance programs.
He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining Chicago Booth in 2010 as an assistant professor. In 2014, he joined the Department of Economics at Northwestern University as an associate professor of Economics. In 2020, Notowidigo returned to Booth as a professor of economics. He holds a B.S. in economics, a B.S. in computer engineering, an M.Eng. in computer science, and a Ph.D. in economics. He is currently a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research, an associate editor at the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and a member of the board of editors at American Economic Journal - Economic Policy.
For more information, contact Mehdi Haririan, professor of economics, at 570-389-4682.
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