He is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and a former dean at Princeton.
He was dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University from 1995 through 2001.
Rothschild has written on asymmetric information, decision-making under uncertainty, demography, investment, taxation, finance, and jury-decision processes.
This paper gives the first systematic exposition of the problem of cherry picking when insurance companies compete for customers.
[4] Notably he wrote about decision-making under uncertainty through, 'Uncertainty in Economics: Readings and Exercises,[5] with Peter Diamond.