BU/Harvard/MIT Health Economics Seminar


Spring 2005

 

The following sessions are to be held in:

Boston University Department of Economics, Room 315, 270 Bay State Road, Boston

02/02 Darius Lakdawalla (Rand) "HIV Breakthroughs and Risky Sexual Behavior"
02/09 Paul Dolan (Princeton, Sheffield)
"Interpretations of Utility and Their Implications for the Valuation of Health"
02/16 David Grabowski (Harvard)
"Nursing Home Quality as a Public Good"
02/23 Daniel Carpenter (Harvard)
"Regulatory Error under Two-Sided Uncertainty: OR, The Political Economy of Vioxx"
 
The following sessions are to be held in:

Harvard School of Public Health, Room 439, Kresge Building, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston
03/02 Billy Jack (Georgetown)
"Employee cost-sharing and the welfare effects of Flexible Spending Accounts"
03/09 Peter Zweifel (Zurich) "Population Ageing and Health Care Expenditure: New Evidence on the 'Red Herring'"
03/16 Kevin Lang (BU) "Worker Sorting, Taxes and Health Insurance"
03/23 (HSPH break no seminar)  
03/30 Jon Gruber (MIT)
"Moral Hazard in Nursing
Home Use"
 
The following sessions are to be held in:

Kennedy School of Government, Room 100, 124 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge.
04/06 Grant Miller (Harvard)
"Contraception as Development? New Evidence from Family Planning in Colombia"
04/13 Botond Koszegi  (UC Berkeley)
"Emotional Agency: The Case of Doctor-Patient Relationship"
04/20 Dora Costa (MIT)
"Death in Andersonville: The Role of Friends in Surviving Civil War POW Camps"
04/27 Anna Aizer (Brown) "Wages, Violence and Health in the Household"
     



Spring 2007 schedule and papers
Spring 2006 schedule and papers
Spring 2005 schedule and papers
Spring 2004 schedule and papers