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Abigail Ostriker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Markets, Public Policy, and Law at Boston University's Questrom School of Business. She holds a PhD in Economics from MIT, completed in 2023, and her research bridges public economics and environmental economics, with applications in health, regulation, and household decision-making.
Her research focuses on how public policies affect individual and market behavior, particularly in high-stakes domains like healthcare and climate risk. Key areas include environmental regulation (e.g., floodplain rules), energy consumption, and medical screening. She uses empirical economic methods to evaluate policy impacts and inform regulatory design.
Her recent publications and working papers reveal a strong trend in analyzing how households respond to environmental and health-related economic pressures. Topics include floodplain regulation's impact on housing markets, how families manage high electricity costs, and the economics of mammogram screening. These works demonstrate interdisciplinary relevance across public policy, environmental science, and health economics.
- Selection and Screening: The Case of Mammograms (American Economic Review, 2020)
- The Effects of Floodplain Regulation on Housing Markets (working paper)
- Feeling the Heat: How Households Manage High Electricity Bills (working paper)
- The Shape of Regulation: Forty Years of Florida Flood Maps (AEA Papers & Proceedings, 2025)
Her work has received media attention from outlets such as the LSE Business Review and Marginal Revolution University, which featured her in their 'Economists in the Wild' series discussing breast cancer screening research.
Dr. Ostriker advises students and conducts research within the academic environment of Boston University. While specific grants are not listed in the text, her active publication record suggests ongoing research funding. She collaborates with leading economists such as Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, and Heidi Williams.
She is affiliated with the Questrom School of Business and conducts research that intersects law, markets, and public policy, particularly in environmental and health domains. Her work contributes to both academic discourse and real-world policy evaluation.
