| health bu/harvard/mit seminar schedule | ||
| spring 2007 | ||
The following sessions are to be held in: |
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| date | speaker | topic |
| Jan 31 | Matthew Neidell |
"The Economic Value of Teeth" |
| Feb 07 | James Marton (Univ of Kentucky and visiting Brown Univ) |
"The Impact of the Introduction of Premiums into an SCHIP Program" |
| Feb 14 | Dean Jamison (Visiting Professor at Harvard) |
"Slow, Fast and Quasi-Hyperbolic Discounting of Health Outcomes" *rescheduled to May 02 |
| Feb 21 | Adriana Lleras-Muney (Princeton Univ) |
"Longevity and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Declines in Maternal Mortality" *joint with Seema Jayachandran |
The following sessions are to be held in: |
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| date | speaker | topic |
| Feb 28 | Steve Pizer (Boston Univ) |
"Nothing for Something: Paying Twice for Drug Benefits Through Medicare" |
| Mar 07 | David Canning (Harvard Univ) |
"Valuing Lives Equally and Welfare Economics" |
| Mar 14 | Mike Chernew (Harvard Medical School) |
"Managed Care and Medicare Expenditures" |
| Mar 21 | Joshua Graff-Zivin (Columbia Univ) |
"AIDS Treatment and Intrahousehold Resource Allocations: Children’s Nutrition and Schooling in Kenya" |
| Mar 28 | Vacation | |
The following sessions are to be held in: |
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| date | speaker | topic |
| Apr 04 | Randall Ellis (Boston Univ) |
"Does Service-Level Spending Show Evidence of Selection Across Plan Types?" |
| Apr 11 | David Howard (Emory Univ) |
"Hospital Quality and Selective Contracting:
Evidence from Kidney Transplantation" |
| Apr 18 | Winnie Yip (Harvard) |
"The Impact of Rural Mutual Health Care: Evaluation of a Social Experiment in Rural China" |
| Apr 25 | Pinka Chatterji (Cambridge Health Alliance) |
"Health and Labor Market Consequences of Eliminating Public Support Programs Among Substance Abusers" |
| May 02 | Dean Jamison (Visiting Professor at Harvard) |
"Slow, Fast and Quasi-Hyperbolic Discounting of Health Outcomes" |