Yelowitz has published articles in economics and health‐related journals, including the Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Health Services Research, Health Economics, and Inquiry. He previously worked at the University of California, Los Angeles as an assistant professor and has taught graduate classes on public economics and health economics and undergraduate classes on health economics, labor economics, public economics, housing economics, and poverty and welfare programs.
Yelowitz received his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994.