health bu/harvard/mit seminar schedule
spring 2006
 

The following sessions are to be held in:
Boston University, Department of Economics
Room 315, 270 Bay State Road, Boston

date speaker topic
Feb 01 Doug Miller
(UC Davis, Visiting NBER)
"Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design"
Feb 08 Weili Ding
(Queens Univ)
"The Impact of Health on Academic Performance: New Evidence Using Genetic Markers"
Feb 15 Karen Eggleston
(Tufts Univ) 
"Mixed Ownership Markets: Theory and Evidence from Hospitals in the US and China"
Feb 22 John Giles
(Michigan State U)
"Elder Parents' Health and Migration Decision of Adult Children: Evidence from Rural China"

The following sessions are to be held in:
Harvard School of Public Health
Room 439, Kresge Building, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston

date speaker topic
Mar 01 Mitali Das
(Columbia Univ, Visiting Dartmouth)
"Nonclassical Measurement Error in Nonrandom Samples: An Application to Maternal Drug Use and Infant Birthweight"
Mar 08 Nolan Miller
(Harvard Univ)
"Report Cards, Incentives, and Quality Competition in Health Care"
Mar 15 Andrew Oswald
(Univ of Warwick)
"Does Happiness Adapt? A Longitudinal Study of Disability with Implications for Economists and Judges"
Mar 22 No Seminar
Mar 29 Cindy Perry
(Harvard)
"Does Treating Maternal Depression Improve Child Health Management? Evidence from Pediatric Asthma"
 

The following sessions are to be held in:
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Taubman 301, Cambridge

date speaker topic
Apr 05 Tor Iverson
(Univ of Oslo, Visiting UC Berkeley)
"The Impact of Patient Shortage and Service Provision on Patient Movements in a List Patient System"
Apr 12 Douglas Staiger
(Dartmouth)
"Abortion and Selection"
*with Liz Ananat, Jon Gruber & Phil Levine
Apr 19 Amy Finkelstein
(MIT)
"Input and Technology Choices in Regulated Industries: Evidence from the Health Care Sector"
Apr 26 David Weil
(Brown Univ)
"Accounting for the Effect of Health on Economic Growth"
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