Michael Dickstein

Biography

Michael Dickstein is an Associate Professor of Economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business and Director of Stern’s Healthcare Initiative.

Professor Dickstein’s research interests lie at the intersection of industrial organization and health economics. In recent papers, he has explored how patient prices influence prescription drug adoption and how re-defining the boundaries of a health insurance pool may lead to greater enrollment. A through-line of his work is to build modeling tools to capture the complex economic features of healthcare markets, including uncertain product quality, adverse selection, and imperfect competition.

Professor Dickstein teaches the “Healthcare Markets” course in Stern’s MBA program, as well as a health economics elective in the undergraduate program. For his teaching, he received recognition as a “Best 40-under-40 MBA professor” by Poets and Quants in 2021.

Prior to joining NYU Stern in 2015, Professor Dickstein was an assistant professor of economics at Stanford University and a postdoctoral associate at the Cowles Foundation at Yale University.

He received his B.S. in Applied Economics from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University.

Research Interests

• Industrial Organization
• Health Economics
• Econometrics

Academic Background

Ph.D., Business Economics
Harvard University

B.S., Applied Economics
Cornell University