Triangle Health Economics Workshop

Fall 2012/Spring 2013 Schedule

(Last Updated 04/15/13)

Looking for schedules from previous years? See the Workshop Archives.

8/24	Courtney Van Houtven (Duke/Durham VA) Title: Do couples self-insure? The effect of informal care on a couple's labor supply Location/Time: Noon - 1 pm, Rosenfeld Conference Room, 3rd floor, Sheps Center, UNC Link to paper
9/21	Anirban Basu (University of Washington) Title: Estimating person-centered treatment effects using instrumental variables: Application to prostate cancer treatments Location/Time: Noon - 1:30 pm, 133 Rosenau Hall, UNC This seminar is jointly sponsored by the Program on Health Outcomes, UNC
10/5	Janet Currie (Princeton) Title: Is there a Link Between Foreclosure and Health? Location/Time: Noon - 1 pm, Carolina Population Center, Room 405, University Square East Tower, 123 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (as part of the CPC's Interdisciplinary Research Seminar series)
10/26	Phil Cook (Duke) Title: The virtuous tax: Lifesaving and crime-prevention effects of the 1991 federal alcohol-tax increase Location/Time: Noon - 1 pm, 211 Gardner Hall, UNC Economics Link to paper
11/2	Michael Schoenbaum (National Institute of Mental Health) Title: Assessing Risk and Protective Factors for Suicide in US Army Soldiers: The Army STARRS Study Location/Time: 1:30- 3 pm, 2301 MacGavran-Greenberg Hall, UNC This seminar is jointly sponsored by the Program on Health Outcomes, UNC
11/16	Kimberley Geissler (PhD Candidate, Health Policy and Management) Title: The impact of homicides in northern Mexico on healthcare access for US residents Location/Time: Noon - 1 pm, DeFriese Conference Room 150, Sheps Center, UNC
11/30	Matt Harris (PhD Candidate, UNC Economics) Title: What is the Full Cost of Body Mass in the Workplace? A Dynamic Stochastic Model of Occupational Choice, Hours Worked, and Body Weight Over the Life Cycle Location/Time: Noon - 1 pm, DeFriese Conference Room 150, Sheps Center, UNC Link to paper
1/11/13	Matt Maciejewski (Duke/Durham VA) Title: Can Value Based Insurance Design (VBID) Bend the Cost Curve? Location/Time: Noon - 1 pm, DeFriese Conference Room 150, Sheps Center, UNC
1/22	Matt White (Johns Hopkins) Title:An Ounce of Prevention at Half Price: Evaluating a Subsidy on Health Investments Location/Time: 3:30 - 5 pm, 211 Gardner Hall, UNC Economics Link to paper
2/6	David Chan (MIT) Title: Organizational Structure and Moral Hazard among Emergency Department Physicians Location/Time: 12:30 - 2 pm, Fuqua School of Business, DeSanctis Seminar Room, Duke Link to paper
2/8	Donna Gilleskie (UNC Economics) Title: Disentangling the Contemporaneous and Life-Cycle Effects of Body Mass on Earnings Location/Time: 12:00 - 1 pm, Room 405, CPC East, UNC This seminar is sponsored by the Carolina Population Center, UNC
2/15	Jeff Federspiel (PhD Candidate, Health Policy and Management) Title: Beyond the "Marginal Patient": Addressing Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Observational Outcomes Research Location/Time: Noon - 1 pm, DeFriese Conference Room 150, Sheps Center, UNC
2/22	Erica Field (Duke Economics) Title: Throwing the Baby out with the Drinking Water: Unintended Consequences of Arsenic Mitigation Efforts in Bangladesh Location/Time: 12:00 - 1 pm, Room 405, CPC East, UNC This seminar is sponsored by the Carolina Population Center, UNC
3/1	Sally Stearns (UNC) Title: Sally's DC Wild Adventure: Costs and Benefits of Medicare Hospice Use Location/Time: Noon - 1 pm, DeFriese Conference Room 150, Sheps Center, UNC
4/19	Thomas Buchmueller (University of Michigan) Title: The Effect of Medicaid Payment Rates on Access to Dental Care Among Children Location/Time: Noon - 1:30 pm, Fuqua School of Business, DeSanctis Seminar Room, Duke Link to paper
4/26	Dmitry Shapiro (UNC Charlotte) Title: Heterogeneous Effect of Prospective Payment System on Hospital's Volume and Quality Location/Time: Noon - 1 pm, DeFriese Conference Room 150, Sheps Center, UNC Link to paper

Workshop format and locations
Workshops are on Fridays unless indicated otherwise. Workshops are from several different series, so please note different times and locations.

Parking and Maps

The UNC Sheps Center is at 725 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. (formerly Airport Rd.); parking permits can be obtained from the second floor receptionist.

Information on other visitor parking at UNC is at http://www.dps.unc.edu/Parking/visitor/visitorlotlocations/visitorlotlocations.cfm.
A campus visitor parking map is available at http://www.dps.unc.edu/maps/visitor/Visitor.pdf

Maps and directions to the Fuqua School of Business can be found here: http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/documents/programs/campus_map.pdf
Note: Information on the time and location of seminars at Duke should be confirmed by going to: http://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/~dbr1/health/seminar.html

Directions to RTI:

Directions from I40 towards RTP: Exit on Davis Drive and go north to Cornwallis (If you get to M54 you are going South). Turn left on Cornwallis; the next traffic light is at the entrance to RTI's main campus on your left. Turn left at the light onto Institute Drive. Go past your first opportunity to turn into a parking lot on your left, and park somewhere in the next large lot on your left. Facing the buildings you see uphill from the lot, Cox is the middle one in the array from left to right. Check in at the Cox security desk at the main
entrance facing the parking lot, and obtain visitor badges. RTI staff will escort you to the conference room.

Directions from Southbound on Durham Freeway: Take the Cornwallis road exit and at the top of the ramp turn left. At the next light turn right onto Institute drive and into RTI's main campus. Go past your first opportunity to turn into a parking lot on your left, and park somewhere in the next large lot on your left. Facing the buildings you see uphill from the lot, Cox is the middle one in the array from left to right. Check in at the Cox security desk at the main entrance facing the parking lot, and obtain visitor badges. RTI staff will
escort you to the conference room.

HPM 815
Doctoral students may register for the workshop for one credit hour, with permission of the instructor Marisa Domino. Students must attend each session and participate in the discussion of the papers. Economics 710 is a prerequisite.

For more information
To be added to the e-mail announcement and paper distribution list, send an email with "Subscribe THEW" in the body of the text to listserv@unc.edu. For other information contact Marisa Domino (mdomino@email.unc.edu, 919-966-3891) or Donna Gilleskie (donna_gilleskie@unc.edu). For schedule updates see http://www.unc.edu/the.

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