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| health bu/harvard/mit seminar schedule |
| spring 2008 |
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| Seminars
are on Wednesday from 4:30-6pm. For more information, or to be added to the email announcement list, contact Randall Ellis at ellisrp@bu.edu. |
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The following sessions are to be held in:
Boston University, Department of Economics
Room 315, 270 Bay State Road |
| date |
speaker |
topic |
| Feb 06 |
Joseph Doyle
(MIT) |
"After Midnight: A Regression Discontinuity Design in Length of Postpartum Hospital Stay"
*joint with Douglas Almond
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| Feb 13 |
Rhema Vaithianathan
(Harvard HCP, Univ Auckland) |
"Female Genital Cutting and Marital Outcomes"
*joint with Tatyana Chesnokova
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| Feb 20 |
Jim Burgess
(Boston Univ) |
"Practical Risk Adjustment for Paying Health Care Providers"
*joint with Will Manning, Ted Stefos, Carl Morris, and Cindy Christiansen |
| Feb 27 |
Sherry Glied
(Columbia Univ)
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"Non Price Competition in the Physician Market" |
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The following sessions are to be held in:
Harvard School of Public Health
Room 439, Kresge Bldg, 677 Huntington Ave
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| date |
speaker |
topic |
| Mar 05 |
David Cutler
(Harvard) |
"Explaining Trends in Disability in the Elderly Population" |
| Mar 12 |
John Mullahy
(Univ of Wisconsin)
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"Further Examination of Volume-Quality Relationships in Healthcare: Some Methodological Considerations" |
| Mar 19 |
Ariadna Garcia Prado
(Boston Univ & World Bank)
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"Enrolling the Self-Employed in Mandatory Health Insurance Schemes: The Case of Colombia"
*joint with Giota Panopoulou |
| Mar 26 |
Harvard Break |
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The following sessions are to be held in:
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Taubman 301, Cambridge |
| date |
speaker |
topic |
| Apr 02 |
Albert Ma
(Boston Univ)
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"Public Sector Rationing and Private Sector Selection"
*joint with Simona Grassi |
| Apr 09 |
TBA |
TBA |
| Apr 16 |
Amy Finkelstein
(MIT)
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"What Good Is Wealth Without Health? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption"
*joint with Erzo F.P. Luttmer & Matt Notowidigdo |
| Apr 23 |
Kate Baicker
(Harvard School of Public Health) |
"The Spillover Effects of Health Care Spending: Implications for Cost and Quality" |
| Apr 30 |
Seema Jayachandran
(Stanford Univ) |
"Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality: Evidence from Indonesia's Wildfires" |
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spring 2007 schedule and papers
spring 2006 schedule and papers
spring 2005 schedule and papers
spring 2004 schedule and papers |
April 28 2008 |
