JONATHAN T. KOLSTAD

3641 Locust Walk 306 Colonial Penn Center

Office phone number: (215) 573-9075 Cell phone number: (650) 269-7018

Philadelphia, PA 19104 jkolstad@wharton.upenn.edu http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/kolstad.html Academic Positions: 2009-present 2011-present

Assistant Professor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research

Education: 2004-2009 1998-2002

PhD, Health Policy/Economics, Harvard University BA (Honors), Economics, Stanford University

Fields of Interest: Health Economics, Industrial Organization, Public Economics, Applied Microeconomics Teaching Experience: 2009-present

2006-2007

Undergraduate Health Economics, MBA eHealth and PhD Health Economics, Wharton School/Economics Department, University of Pennsylvania Teaching Fellow, Economics Department and Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Other Employment: Dec 2012,13

2006- 2009

Visiting Faculty, Indian School of Business Research Assistant, Harvard Business School

2006- 2007 Academy Health/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Consumer Engagement Project

2002-2004 Analyst, Broadlane Inc., Strategy and Operations Consulting Group and Business Development Department, San Francisco, CA

Professional Activities: Referee:

American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Public Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Law, Economics and Organizations, Health Services Research, Management Science

Presentations (including scheduled): 2015 Universidad de Los Andes (Economics), UCLA (Economics), NBER (Insurance and Health Care) 2014 ASSA Meeting, Chicago (Booth), Northwestern (Kellogg), UT Austin (Economics), Queens University, Cornell, AHEC (Rice), George Washington (Economics), Notre Dame (Economics) 2013

ASSA Meeting, Brookings, NBER (Health Care, Insurance, SI, Not-for-Profit Hospital), Duke (Economics), UC Berkeley (Haas), Maryland (Economics), Workshop on IO and Health Care, Conference on Economic Decision Making 2012 ASSA Meeting, BU/Harvard/MIT Health Economics Seminar, HEC Montreal, ASHEcon Meeting, Northwestern (Economics), Ohio State University (Economics), Columbia University (Econ/Business), HBS Strategy Conference, University of Chicago (Law School Conference on Health Reform), Harvard Law School 2011 ASSA Meeting, NBER Summer Institute, AHEC (Northwestern), UC Berkeley (Economics), Yale (Health Policy), Georgetown (Business School), Southern Health Economics Study Group, Midwestern Health Economics Conference, European Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics 2010 University of Michigan (Law/Business Health Care Conference), HEC Conference on the IO of Health Care, University of Pittsburgh, ASHE Biennial Meeting, Resources for the Future, NBER Summer Institute, European Workshop on Econometrics and Health Economics, AHEC (Lehigh), University of Illinois Chicago, Case Western Reserve University 2009 University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), Emory, Stanford, Washington University (Olin School), Cornell, CBO, Resources for the Future, RAND, Urban Institute 2008 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, ASHE Biennial Meeting 2007 Academy Health/RWJ Consumer Engagement Project Meeting, iHEA World Congress 2006 ASHE Biennial Meeting, NBER Health Care Program Fall Meeting 2003 NBER Summer Institute, University of California Energy Institute POWER Conference Affiliations: American Economic Association American Society of Health Economists International Health Economics Association

Honors and Fellowships: 2011-present

2010-present 2009-present 2014 2012-2013 2011 2010-2013

Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research Consulting Researcher, Microsoft Research Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania Arrow Award, International Health Economics Association (iHEA) (given annually for the best paper in health economics) Claude Marion Endowed Faculty Scholar, Wharton School W.E. Upjohn Institute Early Career Research Grant Scientific Advisory Board, FairHealth Inc.

2010 February 2010 2008-2009 2007-2009 2007-2008 2004-2007

3rd Biennial Student Paper Award, American Society of Health Economists (given every 2 years for the best sole authored student paper in health economics) Fellow, Leonard D. Schaefer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California Sloan Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for the Study of Managed Care Pre Doctoral Fellowship in Aging and Health Economics, NBER/National Institute on Aging Student Fellow, Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law School (award for top paper by a student fellow) Pre Doctoral Training Grant, Agency for Health Research and Quality

June, 2006 2005 June, 2002

Distinction on Field Qualifying Examination (Economics), Harvard University Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Anna Laura Myers Award for Top Department Honors Theses, Economics Department, Stanford University

Publications: Health Insurance for Humans: Information Frictions, Plan Choice, and Consumer Welfare (with Ben Handel), forthcoming, American Economic Review. Messaging and the Mandate: The Impact of Consumer Experience on Health Insurance Enrollment Through Exchanges (with Natalie Cox, Ben Handel and Neale Mahoney), forthcoming, American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings. Adverse Selection and an Individual Mandate: When Theory Meets Practice (with Martin Hackmann and Amanda Kowalski), American Economic Review, 2015, 105(3): 1030-6. Information and Quality when Motivation is Intrinsic: Evidence from Surgeon Report Cards American Economic Review, 2013, 103(7): 2875-2910. Consumers Misunderstanding of Health Insurance (with George Loewenstein, Joelle Friedman, Barbara McGill, Sarah Ahmad, Suzanne Linck, Stacy Sinkula, John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, John A. List, and Kevin G. Volpp), Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32(5): 850-862. The Impact of Health Care Reform On Hospital and Preventive Care: Evidence from Massachusetts (with Amanda Kowalski), Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96(11-12): 909-912. Health Reform, Health Insurance, and Selection: Estimating Selection into Health Insurance Using the Massachusetts Health Reform (with Martin Hackmann and Amanda Kowalski), American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 2012, 102(3): 498-501. The Effect of Pay for Performance in Hospitals: Lessons for Quality Improvement (with Rachel Werner, Elisabeth Stewart and Daniel Polsky), Health Affairs, 2011, 30(4): 690-698.

Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons From Cardiac Surgery (with David Cutler and Robert Huckman), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2010, 2(1): 51-76. Quality and Consumer Decision Making in the Market for Health Insurance and Health Care Services (with Michael Chernew), Medical Care Research and Review, 2008, 66(1): 28S-52S. Working Papers: Using Environmental Emission Permits to Raise Electricity Prices: Evidence from the California Electricity Market (with Frank Wolak), revise and resubmit, RAND Journal of Economics. Mandate-Based Health Reform and the Labor Market: Evidence from the Massachusetts Health Insurance Reform (with Amanda Kowalski), revise and resubmit, Journal of Health Economics. Information Frictions and the Welfare Consequences of Adverse Selection (with Ben Handel and Johannes Spinnewijn) Consumer Heterogeneity and Medical Care Price Responsiveness: Evidence and Implications for Optimal Insurance Design (with Zarek Brot-Goldberg, Amitabh Chandra and Ben Handel) Book Chapters: Quality Reporting and Demand Encyclopedia of Health Economics. Elsevier. Forthcoming. "The Effect of Public and Private Quality Information on Consumer Choice in Health Care Markets" in The Value of Information: Methodological Frontiers and New Applications in Environment and Health eds. Laxminarayan and Macauley. 2012. Research Papers in Progress: "Information or Compensation? Understanding the Role of Information Technology in Physician Response to Pay-for-Performance" (with Ben Handel, Igal Hendel and Michael Whinston) Uncertainty and Risk in Physician Treatment Choices (with Ashley Swanson) How Risky is Risk Adjustment? A Method for Estimating Welfare Losses from Imperfect Risk Adjustment (with Amitabh Chandra and Ben Handel) Consumer Experience, Welfare and Complex Products: Evidence from a Firm Experimentation on Insurance Exchanges (with Natalie Cox, Ben Handel and Neale Mahoney)