Biography

Itzik Fadlon is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and a Research Associate in the programs on the Economics of Health, Aging, and Public Economics at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He is also an Invited Researcher at J-PAL North America since November 2024 and an Associate Editor at the Journal of Health Economics since January 2025. He is a Project Co-Leader of an NIH-funded NBER Roybal Center project on Behavioral Interventions Combining AI/ML and Personalized Medicine to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk.
Itzik’s primary fields of interest are public finance, health economics, and labor/family economics. His work studies household behavior and the effects of government policies, as well as how these effects translate into the optimal design of healthcare and social policies. A central agenda in his research focuses on economic and health disparities across race/ethnicity, gender, and geography, and how to design well-targeted public policies to enhance the livelihood of underrepresented groups and traditionally underserved communities. His work has been published in leading journals including American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Review, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Public Economics, and Review of Economics and Statistics. Itzik received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in May 2015. Before joining UCSD in 2016 as an Assistant Professor, he spent a year as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Disability Policy Research at the NBER funded by the Social Security Administration, and he spent the academic year of 2019-2020 as a Visiting Scholar in Aging and Health Research at the NBER funded by NIH/NIA.

Research Profiles

Research profiles and publication records are available at the following sites:

• Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=H4_tzAcAAAAJ
• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER): https://www.nber.org/people/itzik_fadlon
• IDEAS / RePEc: https://ideas.repec.org/f/pfa513.html
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/itzik-fadlon/

Selected Publications

Family Health Behaviors, American Economic Review (2019)

Family Labor Supply Responses to Severe Health Shocks: Evidence from Danish Administrative Records, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2021)

Household Labor Supply and the Value of Social Security Survivors Benefits, American Economic Review (2024)

Survivors’ Mental Health and the Protective Role of Income Stability, American Economic Reivew: Insights (forthcoming)

Invited Upcoming Panel

Roundtable on the Applications of AI in Healthcare, NBER Center for Aging and Health Research, Spring 2026