Murphy-Economics Seminar: Michael Geruso

Each semester The Murphy Institute sponsors a series of seminars organized by the Tulane Department of Economics that provides an opportunity for faculty, researchers, and practitioners to present their latest research and pressing issues related to topics in political economy. Research presented covers all aspects of contemporary economics, including the economics of education, health economics, and public economics, as well as in economic history, international economics, and core areas in political economy. 

Dr. Michael Geruso is a nationally recognized authority on US health insurance markets and global demography. In 2023 and 2024, Professor Geruso took leave from UT-Austin to serve in the Biden/Harris Administration as a Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers, where he advised on issues of healthcare and population change. His work has been published in top peer-reviewed outlets including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and Demography and has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Vox, The Atlantic, and The Economist. His research has been funded by the Arnold Foundation, the Gates Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and others.

Professor Geruso is a faculty Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and holds three bachelor’s degrees from Virginia Tech (engineering, political science, and philosophy) and a PhD in Economics from Princeton. He completed postdoctoral work at Harvard prior to joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in 2014. Since 2014, he has served on the board of the Research Institute of Compassionate Economics (r.i.c.e.).