BU/Harvard/MIT Health Economics Seminar


Spring 2004

 

The following sessions are to be held in:

Boston University Department of Economics, Room 416, 270 Bay State Road, Boston

02/04 Izabela Jelovac
Department of Health Organization, Policy, and Economics Maastricht University (The Netherlands)
"Internationally-based price regulation and price negotiation patterns"
02/11 Chapin White
NBER
"Medicare's New Prospective Payment System for Skilled Nursing Facilities: Effects on Staffing and Quality of Care"
02/18 Kate Baicker
Dartmouth College
"Fiscal Shenanigans, Targeted Federal Health Care Funds, and Mortality"
02/25 Albert Ma
Boston University
"Moonlighting: Public Service and Private Practice"
 
The following sessions are to be held in:

Harvard School of Public Health, Room 439, Kresge Building, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston
03/03 Tom DeLeire
University of Chicago (visiting Kennedy School of Government)
"Trends in Health Insurance Coverage among Low-Skilled Women"
03/10 Rusty Tchernis
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
"Health and Health Insurance: Analysis of Plan Switching Behavior"
03/17 Jim Rebitzer
Case Western Reserve University
"Information Technology and Medical Errors: Evidence from a Randomized Trial"
03/24 HSPH break  
03/31 Marta Wosinska
Harvard Business School
"Direct-to-Consumer Advertising and Drug Therapy Compliance"
 
The following sessions are to be held in:

Kennedy School of Government, Room 100, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge.
04/07 William Dow
School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Income Growth in China: On the Role of Health"
04/14 Adriana Lleras-Muney
Princeton University (visiting the NBER)
"Bounds in Competing Risks Models and the War on Cancer"
04/21 Mark Rosenzweig
Kennedy School of Government
"Returns to Birthweight"
04/28 Patricia Danzon
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
"Size, Structure and Productivity in the Pharmaceutical-Biotechnology Industry"
Pick for paper "one" & "two"
05/05 Paul Gertler
University of California, Berkeley
"Risky Business: The Market for Unprotected Commercial Sex"

 

 
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Spring 2005 schedule and papers
Spring 2004 schedule and papers