Rate My Professor Kowalski Kowalski

As a health economist, Kowalski focuses on integrating theoretical models grounded in context-specific knowledge, econometric techniques, and data from experiments and clinical trials to inform health policy. Her research addresses targeting insurance expansions such as Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, and Massachusetts health reform, alongside evaluating medical spending impacts on at-risk newborns and mammography screening behaviors. Key publications include "Estimating Marginal Returns to Medical Care: Evidence from At-Risk Newborns" (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2010), "Adverse Selection and an Individual Mandate: When Theory Meets Practice" (American Economic Review, 2015), "Mandate-Based Health Reform and the Labor Market: Evidence from the Massachusetts Reform" (Journal of Health Economics, 2016), "Behaviour within a Clinical Trial and Implications for Mammography Guidelines" (Review of Economic Studies, 2023), and "Reconciling Seemingly Contradictory Results from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment and the Massachusetts Health Reform" (Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023). She has garnered major awards including the ASHEcon Medal (2019), Willard G. Manning Memorial Award for Best Research in Health Econometrics (2023), NSF CAREER Award (2014), NIHCM Research Award (2016), Zellner Thesis Award (2009), and Yale Arthur Greer Memorial Prize (2016). Funding from the National Institutes of Health, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Russell Sage Foundation supports her work, which has appeared in outlets like The New York Times, NPR, and The Wall Street Journal.