| health bu/harvard/mit seminar schedule | ||
| spring 2006 | ||
The following sessions are to be held in: |
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| 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: |
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| 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: |
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| 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" |