Spring 2018
You are invited to attend the following upcoming Health Economics and Policy (HEP) Seminars, co-hosted by the Departments of Economics and Health Policy. All April HEP seminars will be held in Calhoun Hall room 109 from 4:00 to 5:20 pm. CME credit will be available for each seminar.
Tuesday, April 3, 2018 TODAY!
Michael Grossman, PhD “Does E-cigarette Advertising Encourage Adult Smokers to Quit?
Distinguished Professor, Economics and Business, City University of New York
Dr. Grossman’s current research deals with the determinants of childhood obesity, the effects of insurance and quality on hospital prices for cancer surgery, racial and ethnic differences in physical activity, moral hazard in less invasive surgical technology for coronary artery disease, and neuroeconomics and alcohol control policies.
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Matthew Neidell, PhD
Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management, Columbia University
Professor Neidell specializes in environmental, health, and labor economics, with research primarily focused at the intersections of these. His most recent work applies the latest empirical methods to examine the relationship between the environment and a wide range of measures of well-being, including worker productivity, human capital, and decision making. Previous related work has focused on the effect of the environment on health outcomes and avoidance behavior.
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Michael Anderson, PhD
Associate Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley
Dr. Anderson’s research interests include the areas of environmental economics, health economics, and applied econometrics, especially relating to questions of causal inference.
Fall 2017
HEP Seminars take place either in Calhoun 109 from 4-5:20pm or in the Board Conference Room on the 6th floor of 2525 West End Avenue from 12-1pm (unless otherwise noted). A light lunch is served for early arrivers for the noontime seminars at 2525 West End.
Fall 2016 Seminars:
HEP Seminars take place either in Calhoun 109 from 4-5:20pm or in the Board Conference Room on the 6th floor of 2525 West End Avenue from 12-1pm (unless otherwise noted). A light lunch is served for early arrivers for the noontime seminars at 2525 West End.
Tuesday, Sept 20th
4-5:20pm, CL 109
Monica Deza – UT Dallas, topic TBA
Tuesday Oct 25th
12-1pm, 2525 West End
Ellen Meara – Dartmouth College, topic TBA
Monday Nov 7th
12-1pm, 12th floor, Grand Conference room, 2525 West End
Aaron Gamino
Tuesday Nov 29th
4-5:20pm, CL 109
John Cawley – Cornell University, topic TBA
Spring 2016 Seminars:
Thursday, Jan 21st
2525 West End Ave, 6th floor board room
Katy Kozimannhil
Wednesday, Mar 16th
2525 West End Ave, 6th floor board room
Kevin Schulman
Friday, April 1
12:00-1:00
2525 West End Ave, 6th floor board room
Florence Watts
Monday, April 4th
12:00-1:00pm
2525 West End Ave, 6th floor board room
Bob Kaestner - TBD
Thur, Apr 14
2525 West End Ave, 6th floor board room
Adam Sacarny (Columbia SPH)
Friday, April 22nd
12:00-1:00pm
2525 West End Ave, 6th floor board room
Marcus Dillender - TBD
Fall 2015 Seminars:
Thursday, September 10th
12:00-1:00pm
2525 West End Ave, 6th floor board room
Marcella Alsan – Tuskegee
The "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male" (TSUS), conducted between 1932 and 1972, passively monitored 400 adult black males with active, late stage syphilis. The study's methods have become synonymous with exploitation and mistreatment of black males by the medical community. We estimate the extent to which the revelation of TSUS contributed to historical racial disparities in medical mistrust and in subsequent health-seeking behavior and health outcomes. Our measures of exposure to the news of Tuskegee are correlated with economically significant increases in measures of medical mistrust and mortality and with decreases in outpatient physician interactions. Those with prior experience to the medical community, including black veterans and women, appear to have been less affected by the disclosure. Our findings relate to a broader literature on how beliefs are formed and the importance of trust for economic exchanges involving asymmetric information.
Wednesday September 9th
12:00 – 1:00pm
2525 West End Ave, 6th floor board room
Andrew Bacon - The Long-Run Effects of Childhood Insurance Coverage: Medicaid Implementation, Adult Disability and Labor Market Outcomes
Thursday November 19th
12:00-1:00pm
2525 West End Ave, 6th floor board room
Emily Lawler – "Effects of Vaccination Recommendations versus Mandates: Evidence from the hepatitis A vaccine"
Tuesday, November 24th
12:00-1:00pm
2525 West End Ave, 12th floor Grand Conference room
Ari Friedman – “Competition Through Wait Times in the Market for Unscheduled Care”
Thursday December 3rd
12:00-1:00pm
2525 West End Ave, 6th floor board room
Sebastian Tello – "Effects of Losing Public Health Insurance on Health Care Access, Preventive Care, Self-Assessed Health, and Inpatient Care: Evidence from the TennCare Disenrollment"
Wednesday, December 16th
12:00-1:00pm
2525 West End Ave, 6th floor board room
Rebecca Haffajee – Title forthcoming
Spring 2015 HEP and HP Seminars:
June 26th - Debbie Freund, President of Claremont Graduate University
12:00-1:00pm 6th Floor of 2525 West End Avenue
June 11th - Niall Brennan, Chief Data Officer for CMS
2525 West End Avenue, Suite 1200 in the Grand Conference room
Apr 30 - Jean Mitchell/(Georgetown University)
2525 WEA, 6th Floor Board Room
Apr 24 - Kosali Simon/(Indiana Univ)
2525 WEA, 6th Floor Board Room
Mar 19 - David Frisvold/(Iowa)
"The Impact of the School Breakfast Program on Childhood Obesity"
REVISED TIME AND LOCATION FOR THIS SEMINAR - 12:30-1:30pm in Calhoun 209
Mar 12 - Carrie Colla/(The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice)
“First National Survey Of ACOs Finds That Physicians Are Playing Strong Leadership And Ownership Roles”
2525 WEA, 12th Floor Grand Conference Room (room updated 3/2/15)
Fall 2014 Seminars:
Nov 19 - Colin Cooke - Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Health System
Improving Efficiency of Intensive Care Unit Use: Patient to Policy
Nov 12 - Erin Trish – Postdoctoral Fellow, Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California
Does Small Group Market Community Rating Affect Firm Self-Insurance?
Nov 11 - Sayeh Nikpay - PhD Candidate in Health Services Research
Economics Cognate, University of Michigan
Do Medicaid Expansions Reduce Hospital Uncompensated Care? Evidence from Early Expansion States
Oct 29 - Bruce Jennings – Director of Bioethics, Center for Humans and Nature
Health Governance Near the End of Life
Oct 21 - Alan Weil – Editor in Chief, Health Affairs
Can Health Services Research and the Triple Aim Save the American Health Care System?
Oct 14 -Michael Richards - Postdoctoral Research Associate, Univ. of Pennsylvania Wharton School Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Physician Labor Response to Health Reform: Evidence from Massachusetts
Sept 17 - Craig Garthwaite - Assistant Professor of Strategy, Northwestern Univ. Kellogg School of Management
Hospitals as Insurers of Last Resort
Spring 2014 Seminars:
May 7 – John Romley - Research Assistant Professor, Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California
Apr 17 - Tom DeLeire - Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University
Apr 3 - Don Kenkel - Professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University
De Gustibus Est Disputandum: Regulating the Taste of Cigarettes
Mar 20 - Charles Courtemanche - Assistant Professor of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
Impacts of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Mandate on Health-Related Outcomes of Young Adults
Jan 10 - Liz Stuart – Associate Professor, Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Fall 2013 Seminars:
Dec 4 - Amanda Kowalski – Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University
The Long Term Impact of Health Insurance Expansions
Nov 20 - Mariana Carrera - Case Western Reserve University
Generic Aversion and Observational Learning in the Over-the-Counter Drug Market
Nov 14 - Daniel Eisenberg - Associate Professor, Dept. of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan School of Public Health
Oct 9 - Christine Eibner – RAND Corporation
The Affordable Care Act and Health Insurance Markets: Simulating the Effects of Regulation
Sept 25 - Tal Gross - Columbia University School of Public Health
Public Health Insurance, Labor Supply, and Employment Lock