Jonathan Gruber (economist)

Jon Gruber
Gruber in 2014
Born	(1965-09-30) September 30, 1965 (age 59)
Academic background
Education	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS) Harvard University (MA, PhD)
Doctoral advisor	Lawrence F. Katz[1]
Academic work
Discipline	Health economics
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral students	Susan Dynarski[2] Amy Finkelstein[3] Melissa Kearney Ebonya Washington[4] Botond Kőszegi[5] Amanda Kowalski
Website	Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Jonathan Holmes Gruber (born September 30, 1965) is an American professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1992.^[6] He is also the director of the Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he is a research associate. An associate editor of both the Journal of Public Economics and the Journal of Health Economics, Gruber has been heavily involved in crafting public health policy.

He has been described as a key architect^[7] of both the 2006 Massachusetts health care reform, sometimes referred to as "Romneycare", and the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, sometimes referred to as the "ACA" and "Obamacare". He became the focus of media and political controversy in late 2014 when videos surfaced in which he made controversial statements about the legislative process, marketing strategies, and public perception surrounding the passage of the ACA.