Donna B. Gilleskie

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Professor of Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research; and Director of the Demography and Economics of Aging Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

As a health economist, Professor Gilleskie studies the economics of individual health behavior. The approach reflected in her work involves understanding the dynamics of decisionmaking over time. Her work offers contributions in the following applied areas: the effect of health insurance characteristics on medical care utilization and health behaviors; the effect of health and health insurance on employment behavior and outcomes; and the effect of medical and non-medical choices on health and health behaviors.

Working Group

Health Inequality (HI)
Identity and Personality (IP)

Additional Information

Email: donna_gilleskie@unc.edu
Homepage: http://www.unc.edu/~dgill/