Triangle Health Economics Workshop

Fall 2011/Spring 2012 Schedule

(Last Updated 2/02/12)

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

8/26	Diafeng He (William and Mary) Title: Hospital Responses to Medicare's Outpatient Prospective System: Evidence from Florida (with Jennifer Mellor) Location/Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm, Rosenfeld Conference Room (3rd floor), Sheps Center, UNC Link to paper
9/9	Amanda Kowalski (Yale) Title: Estimating the Tradeoff Between Risk Protection and Moral Hazard with a Nonlinear Budget Set Model of Health Insurance Location/Time: 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm, Rosenfeld Conference Room (3rd floor), Sheps Center, UNC
9/23	Vivian Ho (Rice) Title: Explaining the Volume-Cost Relationship for Cancer Surgery Location/Time: 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm, 00-002 Joseph S. Pagano Conference Room, Lineberger Cancer Center Link to paper Directions to Lineberger Cancer Center:http://unclineberger.org/directions Contact Donna Gilleskie at dgill@email.unc.edu if parking is needed.
10/20	Benjamin Craig (University of South Florida, Moffitt Cancer Center) Title: Translating cancer outcomes into quality-adjusted life years using experimental economics Location/Time: Time 3:00 - 4:00 pm, 00-002 Joseph S. Pagano Conference Room, Lineberger Cancer Center
11/4	Margaret Kyle (Toulouse) Title: Encouraging Pharmaceutical Innovation (with David Ridley) Location/Time: Noon-1:00 pm, DeFriese Conference Room (1st floor), Sheps Center, UNC
11/18	James Cardon (BYU) Title: Health Savings Accounts, Plan Choice, and Health Care Utilization: Simulating the Effects of HSA Introduction in Individual and Group Markets Location/Time: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm, 211 Gardner Hall, UNC Economics Link to paper
12/2	Reserved for Graduate Student on Job Market
12/9	Omar Galarraga (Brown) Title: Willingness to Accept Conditional Economic Incentives to Reduce HIV Risks among men who have sex with men in Mexico City Location/Time: 8:30 - 9:30 am, 1131 Bioinformatics Building Conference Room (located on the ground floor).
1/20/12	Frank Sloan (Duke) Title: Deterring Rearrests for Drinking and Driving Location/Time: noon-1:00 pm, DeFriese Conference Room (1st floor), Sheps Center, UNC Link to paper
2/3	Mark Holmes (UNC) Title: Does Local Unemployment Affect Hospital Admission Rates? Location/Time: 3:30-5 pm,DeFriese Conference Room (1st floor), Sheps Center, UNC
2/17	Tom Mroz (Clemson) Title: Economic Theory as a Guide for the Specification and Interpretation of Empirical Health Production Functions Location/Time: 3:30-5 pm, 211 Gardner Hall, UNC Economics Link to paper
3/16	Guy David (Wharton) Title: TBA Location/Time: noon–1:00 pm, DeSanctis seminar room (see printable map), Duke University Fuqua School of Business
3/30	Bryan McManus (UNC) Title: Choice Dynamics in Infertility Treatment Location/Time: noon–1:00 pm, DeFriese Conference Room (1st floor), Sheps Center, UNC
4/13	Harsha Thirumurthy (UNC) Title: TBA Location/Time: noon-1:00 pm, DeFriese Conference Room (1st floor), Sheps Center, UNC

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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