Research Expertise and Interest

health economics, industrial organization, public economics

Research Description

Professor Kolstad is the Henry J. Kaiser Chair in Organized Health Systems and an Associate Professor at the Haas School of Business  and in the Economics Department at UC Berkeley and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research

Professor Kolstad is an economist whose research interests lie at the intersection of health economics, industrial organization and public economics. He is particularly interested in finding new models and unique data that can account for the complexity of markets in health care, notably the role of information asymmetries and incentives.

Kolstad was awarded the ASHEcon Medal in 2018, given biennially to the economist age 40 or under who has made the most significant contributions to the field of health economics, the Arrow Award for the best paper in health economics in 2014 and the NIHCM Foundation Research Award in 2016 and 2018. Professor Kolstad is also a co-founder and was Chief Data Scientist at Picwell. Professor Kolstad received his PhD from Harvard University and BA from Stanford University.