
Itzik Fadlon
Assistant Professor of Economics
on Academic Leave (at NBER) 2019-2020Office: ECON 214
Email: fadlon@ucsd.edu
Department of Economics
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive # 0508
La Jolla, CA 92093-0508
Biography
Itzik
Fadlon is an assistant professor at the University of California, San
Diego and a Faculty Research Fellow in the program on aging at the
National Bureau of Economic Research. His primary fields of interest
are public finance, health economics, and labor economics. Itzik has a special interest in
addressing issues of health and retirement as they affect households
and translate into the design of optimal social policies.
Itzik received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in May
2015. His dissertation, titled “Essays on Retirement, Savings, and
Health”, was awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation prize by the
National Tax Association (NTA). After receiving his Ph.D., Itzik spent
a year as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Disability Policy Research at the
National Bureau of Economic Research.