BU/Harvard/MIT Health Economics Seminar
Spring 2012
Seminars are held on Wednesdays from 4:30 to 6 PM. For more information or to be added to the email announcements, contact Courtney Sullivan at csull@bu.edu.
The following sessions are to be held at:
Boston University, Department of Economics, Room 315, 270 Bay State Road, Boston
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Feb. 1 | Amy Finkelstein (MIT) | Moral hazard in health insurance: How important is forward looking behavior? |
| Feb. 8 | Ken Chay (Brown) | Health Insurance, Hospital Utilization and Mortality: Evidence from Medicare’s Origins |
| Feb. 15 | Jason Abaluck (Yale, NBER) | What Would We Eat if We Knew More: The Implications of a Large-Scale Change in Nutrition Labeling |
| Feb. 22 | Jonathan Kolstad (Penn, Wharton) | Mandate Based Health Reform and the Labor Market: Evidence from the Massachusetts Reform |
The following sessions are to be held at:
Harvard School of Public Health, Room 439, Kresge Bldg, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Feb. 29 | Albert Ma (BU) | Information Disclosure and the Equivalence of Prospective Payment and Cost Reimbursement |
| Mar. 7 | Mark Duggan (U Penn – Wharton) | Moral Hazard and Claims Deterrence in Private Disability Insurance |
| Mar. 14 | (break – no seminar) | |
| Mar. 21 | Leemore Dafny (Northwestern) | How Does Competition Impact the Quality of Health Care? A Case Study of Dialysis Clinics |
| Mar. 28 | Kosali Simon (Indiana) | Early Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Insurance Outcomes: Evidence from the 2010 Dependent Coverage Mandate |
The following sessions are to be held at:
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Taubman 401, Cambridge
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Apr. 4 | Tom Chang (USC Marshall School of Business) | What do Not-For-Profit Hospitals Maximize? Evidence from California’s Seismic Retrofit Mandate |
| Apr. 11 | Richard Frank (Harvard) | Long-term care insurance without mandates |
| Apr. 18 | Neale Mahoney (Harvard, RWJ scholar) | Bankruptcy as Implicit Health Insurance |
| Apr. 25 | Wes Yin (BU) | Private Sector Development and Drug Quality in Indian Retail Drug Markets |