Amanda Kowalski is the Okun-Model Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution for the academic year 2011-2012. She specializes in health economics, public finance, and econometrics.

Kowalski is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Yale University and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Her current research focuses on the effects of health insurance reform in Massachusetts on hospital care, preventive care, labor market outcomes, and patient exposure to financial risk. She has also researched the price elasticity of expenditure on medical care and the marginal returns to medical spending on at-risk newborns using new estimation techniques. Her work has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the Forum for Health Economics & Policy, and several of her papers are available in the NBER Working Paper Series.

She holds a 2008 Ph.D. in economics from MIT and a 2003 A.B. in economics from Harvard. She spent a year before graduate school as a research assistant in health and labor at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and a year after graduate school as a post-doctoral fellow in Health and Aging at the NBER.

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