AP-NORC Center Experts

Joshua Gottlieb is an economist and Professor at the University of Chicago, in the Harris School of Public Policy. He is Co-Director of the Becker-Friedman Institute’s Health Economics Initiative and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Gottlieb is an expert on the economics of the healthcare system, including administrative costs, the geography of healthcare, healthcare labor markets, the organization of insurance markets, and physician behavior. His research spans health, labor, urban, and public economics.

Gottlieb completed his Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University in 2012. He has published in leading academic journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, and American Economic Review. His research has been recognized by the International Health Economics Association with the Kenneth J. Arrow Award for best paper in health economics and the National Tax Association with its Outstanding Dissertation Award.

Gottlieb’s research focuses on questions directly relevant to public policy. He is a member of the Medicaid Managed Care Oversight Commission for the State of Illinois. He has written policy proposals and opinion columns that have influenced economic policy in the United States and Canada, and his research is regularly cited by leading policymakers.

Gottlieb is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Health Economics and a member of the Journal of Economic Literature’s Board of Editors. He was previously an Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University, a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and a Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics.

Juan Carlos is a senior research scientist in The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. He has significant experience managing complex multi-mode surveys in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.

Juan Carlos has designed, conducted, and managed surveys on a variety of topics, including attitudes towards democracy, rule of law, the role of religion in public life, and issues related to public health, such as child development and housing conditions and risk factors for suicide among veterans and military service members.

He leads the partnership between NORC and the World Bank Global Indicators team to conduct their flagship Enterprise Survey, a nationally representative firm-level survey with top managers and owners of businesses in several countries in Latin America and Europe.

He has also managed a number of projects featuring collaborations with researchers such as The Wall Street Journal, Univision, the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, and a national economic survey of African-Americans for The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.

Juan Carlos has published scholarly work in peer reviewed journals as well as chapters in edited volumes and reports for public release. He is an active member of AAPOR, ESRA and WAPOR and frequently presents at survey research conferences.

Prior to joining NORC, he spent five years at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, where he worked as a senior survey researcher in the Project Design and Management Group. Previously, he started a survey research firm in his native country of Ecuador, where he partnered with local and international organizations such as the Constitutional Court of Ecuador and USAID to design and execute research projects on democracy development and rule of law.