— Fall 2022/Spring 2023 Schedule
Fall/Spring 2022 Schedule
Looking for schedules from previous years? See the Workshop Archives.
| Date | Workshop Details | Primary Sponsor |
|---|---|---|
| 9/9/22 | Tim Layton (Harvard) Title: Adverse Selection Pricing and Unraveling of Competition in Insurance Markets Time: 3:00-4:30 pm Location: HCA Auditorium Save Event to Calendar | The Sanford School of Public Policy The Fuqua School of Business The Duke Department of Economics |
| 9/16 | Anne Fitzpatrick (UMass Boston) Title: Health Insurance and High Cost Borrowing: The Effect of Medicaid on Pawn Loans, Payday Loans, and Other Non-bank Financial Products Time: 3:00-4:30 pm Location: McKinley Seminar Room Save Event to Calendar | The Sanford School of Public Policy The Fuqua School of Business The Duke Department of Economics |
| 9/23 | No seminar | |
| 9/30 | Zack Cooper (Yale) Title: How does rising health spending impact people, places, and firms? Time: 3:00-4:30 pm Location: HCA Auditorium Save Event to Calendar | The Sanford School of Public Policy The Fuqua School of Business The Duke Department of Economics |
| 10/7 | No seminar | |
| 10/14 | Sebastian Tello-Trillo (Virginia) Title: Public Programs for Children Impact Parents: Evidence from Medicaid Expansions Time: 3:00-4:30 pm Location: HCA Auditorium Save Event to Calendar | The Sanford School of Public Policy The Fuqua School of Business The Duke Department of Economics |
| 10/21 | No seminar | |
| 10/28 | Alex Hollingsworth (Indiana) Title: The gift of a lifetime: mortality effects of hospital funding and its complementarities Time: 3:00-4:30 pm Location: HCA Auditorium Save Event to Calendar | The Sanford School of Public Policy The Fuqua School of Business The Duke Department of Economics |
| 11/4 | Sarah Miller (Michigan) Title: The Long-Term Effects of Income for At-Risk Infants: Evidence from Supplemental Security Income Time: 2:30-3:45 pm Location: HCA Auditorium Save Event to Calendar | The Sanford School of Public Policy The Fuqua School of Business The Duke Department of Economics |
| 11/11 | Kelly Yang (Duke doctoral candidate) Title: Experience Effects and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Aortic Valve Replacement Time: 3:00—4:30 pm Location: HCA Auditorium | Primary Sponsors are: The Sanford School of Public Policy The Fuqua School of Business The Duke Department of Economics |
| 11/18 | Emily Lawler (Georgia) Title: TBD Time: 3:00-4:30 pm Location: McKinley Seminar Room Save Event to Calendar | The Sanford School of Public Policy The Fuqua School of Business The Duke Department of Economics |
| 12/2 | Yucheng Hou (UNC doctoral candidate) Title: Peer Participation in the Medicare Shared Savings Program Time: 3:00-4:30 pm Location: McKinley Seminar Room Save Event to Calendar | The Sanford School of Public Policy The Fuqua School of Business The Duke Department of Economics |
| Date | Topic | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| 1/27/23 | “Bargaining and International Reference Pricing in the Pharmaceutical Industry” by Pierre Dubois, Ashvin Gandhi & Shoshana Vasserman (NBER Working Paper, May 2022). https://www.nber.org/papers/w30053 Time: 3:00-4:30 pm Location: Sheps Conference Room 2002 | Meagan Madden (UNC Econ) |
| 2/3/23 | "Effect of Health Insurance in India: A Randomized Controlled Trial” by Malani et al. Dec. 2021 https://docs.iza.org/dp14913.pdf Time: 3:00-4:30 pm Location: Sheps Conference Room 2002 | Mukesh Adhikari (UNC HPM) |
| 2/10/23 | "Producing Health: Measuring Value Added of Nursing Homes." by Einav, Liran, Amy Finkelstein, and Neale Mahoney. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022, No. w30228. http://www.nber.org/papers/w30228 Time: 3:00-4:30 pm Location: Sheps Conference Room 2002 | Zhang Zhang (UNC HPM) |
| 2/17/23 | "Maternal Mortality Risk and Spousal Differences in the Demand for Children" by Nava Ashraf, Erica M. Field, Alessandra Voena & Roberta Ziparo National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022, No. w30228. https://www.nber.org/papers/w28220 Time: 3:00-4:30 pm Location: Sheps Conference Room 2002 | Yunwei Chen (UNC HPM) |
| 2/24/2023 | "Chain Restaurant Calorie Posting Laws, Obesity, and Consumer Welfare." Abstract: This paper investigates whether and why calorie-posting laws for chain restaurants work. Time: 3:00-4:30 pm Location: Sheps Conference Room 2002 | Dave Frisvold (Iowa) |
| 3/3/2023 | No Event | N/A |
| 3/8/2023 | Special Event: “Fixing Misallocation with Guidelines: Awareness vs. Adherence” by Jason Abaluck, David Chan, Daniel Singer, and Diana Zhu Sign up to attend Time: 3:30-5:00 pm Location: Gardner 211 with a Zoom option for remote attendees | Leila Agha (Harvard) |
| 3/10/2023 | “The Effect of Competition on Physician Prescribing” by Janet Currie, Anran Li and Molly Schnell (2023, NBER working paper) https://www.nber.org/papers/w30889 Time: 3:00-4:30 pm Location: Sheps Conference Room 2002 | Daniel Cho (UNC Econ) |
| 3/17/2023 | SPRING BREAK no class | - |
| 3/24/2023 | “The Fatal Conceit? Cognitive Misperception, Disability, and Mortality” Abstract: Despite a large body of literature on cognitive ability and health, less is known about the health consequences of biased cognitive perception. Using harmonized and nationally representative longitudinal surveys from 31 countries in the world, we document the growing gap between actual and perceived cognitive ability that appears to increase with age, and construct a standardized measure of cognitive misperception. Linking this measure with mortality and disability in the United States and England, we model the cognitive misperception – health gradient. Results show that heightened overconfidence in cognition is associated with higher mortality rates in subsequent years. Conditional on survival, being overconfident in cognition also greatly increases the risks of incident disability and frailty, especially for older adults receiving less family support. We identify two possible pathways inducing poorer outcomes: the first stemming from increased risk taking and financial vulnerability; the second associated with suboptimal use of preventive services and declines in health-promoting behaviors. Given the large and profound impacts of cognitive misperception on older adults’ health and well-being, more family and social supports are needed to promote awareness of cognitive decline. Time: 3:00-4:30 pm Location: Sheps Conference Room 2002 | Xi Chen (Yale) |
| 3/31/2023 | “Monitoring Beneficiary Selection in the Medicare Shared Savings Program”? by Peter Lyu Time: 3:00-4:30 pm Location: Sheps Conference Room 2002 | Peter Lyu (RTI) |
| 4/7/2023 | No Meeting | n/a |
| 4/14/2023 | No Meeting | n/a |
| 4/21/2023 | “Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice and Patient Safety: Evidence from Medical Malpractice Cases and Adverse Action Reports" Abstract: Many states have recently changed their scope of practice laws and granted full practice authority to nurse practitioners, allowing them to practice without oversight from physicians. Physician groups have argued against this change, citing patient safety concerns. In this paper, we use a ratio-in-ratio approach to evaluate whether the transition to full practice authority results in harm to patients as measured by rates of malpractice cases and adverse action reports against nurse practitioners. We find no evidence of such harm, and instead find that physicians may benefit from the law change in terms of reduced malpractice cases against them. Time: 3:00-4:30 pm Location: Sheps Conference Room 2002 | Sara Markowitz (Emory) |
| 4/28/2023 | “Pay-it-forward testing to spur gonorrhea testing among men who have sex with men: insights from the PIONEER study in Guangzhou, China” Abstract: Forthcoming Time: 3:00-4:30 pm Location: Sheps Conference Room 2002 | Rayner Tan (IGHID) |
