Jonathan Klick
Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. Professor of Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Jonathan Klick is the Charles A. Heimbold Jr. Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
His research applies advanced econometric methods to identify the causal effects of laws and regulation on individual behavior. His work addresses topics including abortion access and risky behavior, addiction as rational choice, the effects of policing on crime, physician labor markets and liability exposure, and health behaviors.
Klick has spent most of his academic career at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has served as professor of law and previously as a visiting professor. He also holds the Erasmus Chair of Empirical Legal Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam and has served as a visiting professor at numerous institutions.
Earlier, he was a senior economist at the RAND Corporation’s Institute for Civil Justice and a senior economist and visiting scholar affiliated with Northwestern University’s Searle Center. He previously taught at Florida State University College of Law, where he served as assistant professor, associate professor, and the Jeffrey A. Stoops Professor of Law, and as a courtesy professor of economics. Before entering the legal academy, he taught at Prince George’s County Community College.
His professional honors include serving as editor of the International Review of Law and Economics, chair of the scientific committee of the European Association of Law and Economics, and designation as an honorary professor at City University of Hong Kong.
He earned a J.D. cum laude and a Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University, a master’s in economics from the University of Maryland, and a bachelor’s from Villanova University.
