Amanda Kowalski
Faculty Associate, SRC
Faculty Associate, PSC
Professor, Economics
Professor, Ford School Of Public Policy
- aekowals@umich.edu
- 734-763-1414
- 2404 ISR-Thompson
- CV (PDF)
- Google Scholar Profile

BIO
Dr. Kowalski is a health economist who specializes in bringing together theoretical models and econometric techniques to analyze key health policy questions. Her recent work focuses on designing policies to target insurance expansions and medical treatments to individuals who will benefit from them the most.
- Kolstad, J., and Amanda Kowalski. 2016. "Mandate-based health reform and the labor market: Evidence from the Massachusetts reform." Journal of Health Economics 47: 81-106.
- Kowalski, Amanda. 2016. "Censored quantile instrumental variable estimates of the price elasticity of expenditure on medical care." Journal of Business & Economic Statistics 34(1): 107-117.
- Kowalski, Amanda. 2015. "Estimating the tradeoff between risk protection and moral hazard with a nonlinear budget set model of health insurance." International Journal of Industrial Organization 43: 122-135.
- Hackmann, M., J. Kolstad, and Amanda Kowalski. 2015. "Adverse Selection and an Individual Mandate: When Theory Meets Practice." American Economic Review 105(3): 1033-1066.
- Kolstad, J., and Amanda Kowalski. 2012. "The impact of health care reform on hospital and preventive care: evidence from Massachusetts." Journal of Public Economics 96: 909-929.
- Hackmann, M., J. Kolstad, and Amanda Kowalski. 2012. "Health reform, health insurance, and selection: Estimating selection into health insurance using the massachusetts health reform." American Economic Review 102(3): 498-501.