Michael Grossman

Michael Grossman has been affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1966 when he was hired as as a research assistant. Currently, he directs the NBER’s Health Economics Program and is a Distinguished Professor of Economics at the City University of New York Graduate Center, where he has taught since 1972. Dr. Grossman also is a co-editor of the Review of Economics of the Household, a series co-editor of Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, published by JAI, an imprint of Elsevier, Ltd., an associate editor of the Journal of Health Economics, and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Grossman received his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University in 1970. His research has focused on economic models of the determinants of health, the economics of substance use and abuse, and the determinants of interest rates on tax-exempt hospital bonds. Recently completed studies deal with the effects of excise taxes on cigarette smoking by pregnant women, the relationship between substance use and risky sexual behavior by teenagers, the economics of obesity, and the effects of managed care on hospital prices for bypass surgery and for angioplasty. His current research deals with the effects of the introduction of national health insurance and compulsory school reform in Taiwan on child health outcomes in that country.

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