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Fall 2006-Spring 2007 Schedule
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9/8/06 |
Beomsoo Kim (Assistant Professor, UNC Greensboro )
Title: The Impact of Malpractice Risk on the Use of Obstetrics Procedures
Location/Time: Noon - 1 p.m., RTI
Link to paper |
9/22
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Edward Norton (Professor, UNC Chapel Hill )
Title: Using Genetic Information to Identify the Causal Effect of Obesity on Labor Market Outcomes
Location/Time: Noon - 1 p.m., Duke University, Fuqua Seminar Room 1 |
10/6 |
Reed Johnson (PhD, RTI )
Title: Risk-Benefit Preferences Versus Measured Utility: A Comparison of Methods
Location/Time: Noon - 1 p.m., Room 150, Sheps Center, UNC Chapel Hill
Link to paper |
11/3 |
Frank Sloan (Professor, Duke University)
Title: Do Smokers Really Underestimate Risks? Evidence from Subjective Beliefs about Mortality and Health
Ahmed Khwaja, Dan Silverman, Frank Sloan
Location/Time: Noon - 1 p.m., Room 150, Sheps Center, UNC Chapel Hill
Link to paper |
11/17
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Marty Gaynor (Professor, Carnegie Mellon University)
Title: A Competition Index for Differentiated Product Oligopoly with An Application to Hospitals
Location/Time: 12:30 - 2:00 p.m., Seminar Room 1, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Link to paper |
12/1 |
David Grabowski (Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School)
Title: The Impact of Ownership Conversions on Nursing Home Performance
Location/Time: 3:30 - 5 p.m., Room 150, Sheps Center, UNC Chapel Hill |
12/6
Wednesday |
Rob Huckman (Harvard University)
Title: Is Entry Efficient When Inputs Are Constrained? Lessons from Cardiac Surgery
Location/Time: 9:30 - 11:00 a.m., Seminar Room 1, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
For more information, please see http://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/~dbr1/health/seminar.html |
12/8
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Betty Tao and Sean Zhang (PhD candidates, UNC Economics - Job Market Practice)
Titles: The Impact of Insurance on Recommended Medical Care, Lifestyle Behaviors and the Health of Non-Elderly Diabetics (Betty Tao) and Friendship Formation and Peer Effects on Smoking Initiation Among American Teens (Sean Zhang)
Location/Time: Noon - 2 p.m., Room 150, Sheps Center, UNC Chapel Hill
Link to Tao paper
Link to Zhang paper |
12/14
Thursday |
France Weaver (PhD Candidate, Job Market Practice)
Title: Proximity to death and participation
in the long-term care market
Location/Time: Noon - 1 p.m., Room 150, Sheps Center, UNC Chapel Hill
Link to paper |
1/26/07
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Lee Mobley (RTI)
Title: Geo-spatial Measurement and Methods in Health Outcomes Research
Location/Time: Noon - 1 p.m. Seminar Room 1, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University |
2/9 |
Daniel Eisenberg (University of Michigan)
Title: The Effect of Serving in Vietnam on Smoking Later in Life
Location/Time: 3:30 - 5 p.m. Room 150, Sheps Center, UNC Chapel Hill
Link to paper |
2/21 |
Duncan Thomas (UCLA)
Title: Causal Effect of Health on Labor Market Outcomes: Empirical Evidence
Location/Time: 3:30 - 5 p.m. Room 211, Gardner Hall, UNC Chapel Hill
Link to paper |
2/23 |
Albert Ma (Boston University)
Title: Subsidy Design and Asymmetric Information: Wealth versus Benefits
Location/Time: 3:30 - 5 p.m. Seminar Room 1, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Link to paper |
3/2 |
Leemore Dafny (Northwestern University)
Title: Are Health Insurance Markets Competitive? A Test of First-Degree Price Discrimination
Location/Time: 3:30 - 5 p.m. Seminar Room C, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University |
3/9 |
Harsha Thirumurthy (UNC Chapel Hill)
Title: AIDS Treatment and Intrahousehold Resource Allocations: Children's Nutrition and Schooling in Kenya
Location/Time: Noon - 1 p.m. Room 3005, Hooker Research Center, UNC Chapel Hill |
3/23 |
Sally Stearns (UNC Chapel Hill)
Title: Maternal Peridontal Disease and Birth Outcomes: An Elusive Relationship
Location/Time: Noon - 1 pm. RTI, Hobbs Ground Floor conference room (see directions below)
Link to paper |
4/13 |
Justin Trogdon (RTI)
Title: Use of Econometric Models to Estimate Disease-Specific Shares of Medical Expenditures
Location/Time: Noon - 1 p.m. Room 150, Sheps Center, UNC Chapel Hill
Link to paper |
4/27 |
Chris Ruhm (UNC Greensboro)
Title: Age, Socioeconomic Status and Obesity Growth
Location/Time: Noon - 1 p.m. Seminar Room C, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Link to paper |
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