David Molitor

David Molitor is an Associate Professor of Finance and Economics at Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Molitor’s research explores how location and the environment shape health and health care delivery in the United States. His work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Social Security Administration, J‑PAL North America, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and has been published in leading academic journals including The American Economic Review, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, and The Review of Economics and Statistics. Molitor has won numerous research and teaching awards, including the Kenneth J. Arrow Award and the NIHCM Foundation Research Award. Molitor was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and received his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT and his B.S. from the University of Minnesota.

Focal Areas: Health, Energy and Environment