Jason Fletcher is Professor in the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His main interests include estimating social networks effects on health and education decisions, long term effects of child and adolescent conditions, and integrating genetic and economic analysis. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at Columbia University (2010-2012), an affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a research associate of the Columbia Population Research Center. He received his PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in February 2012.