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Spring 2008

Thursday, April 3, 2008
David Canning
Harvard School of Public Health
Valuing Lives Equally and Welfare Economics
Paper

Thursday, April 10, 2008
Tomas Philipson
Harris School of Public Policy
An Economic Evaluation of the War on Cancer
Paper

Thursday, April 17, 2008
Daniel Menchik
PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology
The Cultivation of Esteem and Retrieval of Scientific Knowledge in Physician Networks
**Paper to be distributed at lecture**

Thursday, April 24, 2008
Regis J. Fallon Lecture on Health and Law
Clark Havighurst
Duke University School of Law
Fairness in Health Care: Who Pays? Who Benefits?
Paper

Thursday, May 1, 2008
Tina Sacks
NSRA Doctoral Student Presentation, Harris School of Public Policy
Topic TBA
**No Paper**

Thursday, May 8, 2008
Meredith Rosenthal
Harvard School of Public Health
Patient Loyalty after a Physician-Specific Change in Cost Sharing

Thursday, May 15, 2008
Sean Nicholson
Cornell University
A Quality-Adjusted Price Index for Colorectal Cancer Drugs
Paper

Thursday, May 22, 2008
Lucy Mackey Bilaver
NSRA Doctoral Student Presentation, Harris School of Public Policy

Thursday, May 29, 2008
Anup Malani
University of Chicago, Law School

Thursday, June 5, 2008
Puneet Manchanda
Associate Professor of Marketing, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Asymmetric Social Interactions in Physician Prescription Behavior: The Role of Opinion Leaders
Paper


Winter 2008

Thursday, January 10, 2008**
Salvador Navarro-Lozano, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Empirical Models for Dynamic Treatment Effects
View Paper

Thursday, January 24, 2008**
Rodrigo R. A. Pinto, University of Chicago
Perry Program: Neurological Consequences of early Childhood Investment

Thursday, February 14, 2008
Richard Hirth, University of Michigan
Provider Monitoring and Pay-for-Performance When Multiple Providers Affect
Outcomes: An Application to Renal Dialysis
View Paper

Thursday, February 21, 2008
Will Dow, University of California-Berkeley
SES and Adult Health in Costa Rica versus the United States

Thursday, February 28, 2008
Han Bleichrodt
New and Robust Tests of QALYs when Health Varies over Time
View Paper

Thursday, March 06, 2008
Jennifer Troyer, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
The dilemma of vacant beds: Did lenient CON policies toward hospitals make nursing homes 'sick'?
View Paper

Thursday, March 13, 2008
Jennifer Humensky, University of Chicago, Harris School, PhD Candidate
Do Adolescents with Mental Health Problems Have Lower Educational
Attainment? The Role of School and Neighborhood Factors
View Paper

 

Fall 2007

Thursday, September 27, 2007
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, University of Chicago
Effects of Food Stamps on Infant Health
View Paper

Thursday, October 04, 2007**
Peter Hoff, University of Washington-Seattle
Multiway factor models for multivariate relational data: Application to social network analysis
View Paper

Thursday, October 11, 2007
Charles Manski, Northwestern University
Drug approval process
View Paper

Thursday, October 18, 2007
Brian Melzer, National Research Service Award Fellow
The real costs of credit access: Evidence from the payday lending market
View the Paper

Thursday, October 25, 2007
Amee Kamdar
Male Incarceration and Teen Fertility
View Paper

Thursday, November 01, 2007**
Sharon-Lise T. Normand, Harvard University
Latent variable models for assessing quality of health care: Issues and applications
View Paper

Thursday, November 08, 2007
Hyo Jung Tak, PhD candidate, Harris School
The effects of time cost on medical care demand
View Paper

Thursday, November 15, 2007
Tamara Konetzka, University of Chicago
Nursing Home Litigation and Quality of Care

Thursday, November 29, 2007**
Pravin Trivedi, Indiana University
Applications of Copulas in Health Econometrics
View Paper

 

Spring 2007

Thursday, March 29, 2007
Jennifer Humensky, PhD candidate in Health Policy, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
Do Low SES Adolescents Have Greater Rates of Mental Health Problems
View Paper

Thursday, April 5, 2007
Amitabh Chandra, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
The Economics of Treatment Disparities in Healthcare: Evidence from Heart-Attack Treatments

Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Grant Miller, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Stanford University
Is Mortality in Developing Countries Procyclical? Health Production and the Value of Time in Colombia's Coffee-Growing Regions

Thursday, April 12, 2007
James S. Jackson, University of Michigan
The Social Psychology of Health Disparities: Race, the Life-Course and Chronic Stress

Thursday, April 12, 2007
Don Kenkel, Professor, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University
Advertising and Smoking

Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Richard Hirth, Assoc Prof, Health Mgmt & Policy and Dept of Internal Medicine, Univ of Michigan
Insurer Competitive Strategy and Enrollment in Newly Offered Preferred Provider Organizations (PPO)s

Thursday, April 19, 2007
David Kessler, Dean, University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine
Richard Epstein, Professor of Law, University of Chicago
The Food and Drug Administration: How Safe? How Effective?

Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Robert Town, University of Minnesota
Managed Care and Medicare Expenditures

Thursday, April 26, 2007
JoEllen Wilbur, Professor and Associate Dean for Research, UIC College of Nursing
Outcomes of a Home-based Walking Program for African American Women

Thursday, April 26, 2007
Danielle Wallace, PhD candidate in Sociology, University of Chicago
Perceptions of Disorder and Health: The Importance of Specific Disorder Cues
View Paper

Thursday, May 3, 2007
Scott Stern, Assoc Prof, Management & Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern Univ
Do Formal Intellectual Property Rights Hinder the Free Flow of Scientific Knowledge? Evidence from Patent-Paper Pairs
View Paper

Friday, May 4, 2007
Jonah Gelbach, Associate Professor, Dept of Economics, University of Maryland
Cheap Donuts and Expensive Broccoli: The Effect of Relative Prices on Obesity
View Paper

Thursday, May 10, 2007
Anna Aizer, Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Brown University
Biology, Stress and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status
View Paper

Thursday, May 17, 2007
Paul Schultz, Malcolm K. Brachman Professor of Economics, Yale University
Family Planning as an Investment in Human Capital: Evaluation of a Program in Matlab, Bangladesh
View Paper

Thursday, May 24, 2007
Dan Polsky, Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System and
Willard Manning, Professor, Dept of Health Studies and Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
The Mortality Effects of Health Insurance for the Near-Elderly Uninsured
View Paper

Thursday, May 31, 2007 
Panel: James Walter, Professor of Medicine, Chief, Section of Emergency Medicine; Brent Asplin, Instructor of Medicine, Section of Emergency Medicine; Tom Fisher, Instructor of Medicine, Section of Emergency Medicine; Quentin Young, physician-activist, Health and Medicine Policy Research Groupand ; Mickey Eder, Research Director, ACCESS Community Health Network
The Emergency Department as a mirror of urban social problems

Thursday, June 7, 2007
Alex Chandler, PhD candidate, University of Chicago
Labor and Work Task Segmentation between Public and Private Ambulance Organizations, and Consequences for Employee Job Satisfaction
View Paper

Ellerie Weber, PhD candidate in Economics, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
Subsidization and Entry in Hospital Markets

 

Winter 2007

Thursday, January 11, 2007
John Nyman, Professor, Health Policy & Management, University of Minnesota
Health Insurance Theory: The Case of the Missing Welfare Gain
View Paper

Thursday, January 18, 2007 
Pierre Azoulay, Assistant Professor of Behavioral & Policy Science, MIT Sloan School of Management
Doctors, $$ and Drug Development: the Rise of For-Profit Experimental Medicine
View Paper

Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Maria Porter, PhD Candidate in Economics, CCEHPE Pre-doctoral Fellow, University of Chicago
Imbalance in China’s Marriage Market and Its Effect on Bargaining within the Household

Thursday, January 25, 2007
Mark Hall, Fred D. and Elizabeth L. Turnage Professor of Law, Wake Forest University School of Law
View Paper

Thursday, February 1, 2007
Lindsey Leininger, PhD candidate in Health Economics and Policy, Child Health & Well-Being, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
The Impact of the Medicaid Expansions of the Late 1990s on the Insurance Coverage of Poor Adolescents
View Paper 1
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Friday, February 2, 2007
John DiNardo, Professor of Economics & Public Policy, University of Michigan
Constructive Proposals for Dealing with Attrition: An Empirical Example

Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Joseph Doyle, Assistant Professor of Applied Economics, MIT
Measuring the Returns to Hospital Spending

Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Hoyt Bleakley, Ass’t Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
Malaria in the Americas: A Retrospective Analysis of Childhood Exposure

Thursday, February 22, 2007
Julie Darnell, Senior Research Specialist, Health Policy & Admin, UIC School of Public Health
Free Clinics: What are they and why do they exist?

Thursday, February 22, 2007
Tim Classen, Assistant Professor, Loyola University (Chicago) Graduate School of Business
The Role of Obesity in Intergenerational Correlations of Education
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Mark Duggan, Associate Professor, Dept of Economics, University of Maryland
Causes and Consequences of the Rise in Disability Enrollment: Evidence for the VA’s Disability Compensation Program

Thursday, March 1, 2007
Teri Browne, Adjunct Instructional Staff, School of Social Service Administration University of Chicago
African American Knowledge of Kidney Disease
View Paper

Thursday, March 8, 2007
Phil Levine, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor, Wellesley College Department of Economics
Contraceptive Access and Sexual Behavior
View Paper

Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Jay Bhattacharya, Assistant Professor, Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University Medical School
Who Pays for Obesity?

Thursday, March 15, 2007
Tomas Philipson, Professor, University of Chicago Harris School, Dept of Economics, and Law School
End of Life Health Care
View Paper

Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Jonathan Skinner, John French Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College and Professor, Community & Family Medicine, Ctr for Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Dartmouth Medical School 
Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Health Care

Thursday, March 22, 2007
Lisa Powell, Research Associate Professor, UIC Institute for Health Research and Policy
Nutritional Content of TV Food Advertisements Seen by Children and Adolescents in the US

Friday, March 23, 2007
Philip DeCicca, Dept of Economics, McMaster University
Cigarette Taxes and Older Adult Smoking: Evidence from Recent Large Tax Increases

 

Fall 2006

Thursday, September 28, 2006
Emily Oster, PhD, Becker Fellow, Initiative on Chicago Price Theory, University of Chicago
HIV and Sexual Behavior Change: Why not Africa?
View Paper

Thursday, October 5, 2006
Gordon Hazen, PhD, Professor, Dept of Industrial Engineering & Mgmt Sciences, Northwestern Univ
Adding Extrinsic Goals to the QALY Model
View Paper

Thursday, October 12, 2006
Donald Nichols, PhD, Ass’t Prof, Dept of Economics, Washington Univ, CCEHPE Post-Doctoral Scholar
The Reality of SCHIP & Uninsureds: Do SCHIP Mandatory No-Coverage Periods Increase the Uninsured Rolls?
View Paper

Thursday, October 19, 2006
Christopher Ruhm, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Current and Future Prevalence of Obesity and Severe Obesity in the U.S.

Thursday, October 26, 2006
Ian Parry, PhD, Fellow, Energy and Natural Resources Division, Resources for the Future
Fiscal and Externality Rationales for Alcohol Taxes
View Paper

Thursday, November 2, 2006
Roger Feldman, University of Minnesota
Estimation and Identification of Merger Effects: The Case of Hospital Mergers

Thursday, November 9, 2006
Robert Kaestner, PhD, Professor, Dept of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago,
The Effect of Medicare on the Health Behaviors of Elderly
View Paper

Thursday, November 16, 2006
Leemore Dafny, Ass’t Professor, Management & Strategy, Kellogg School of Mgmt, Northwestern Univ
Do report cards tell consumers anything they don’t already know? The Case of Medicare HMOs
View Paper

Thursday, November 30, 2006
Darius Lakdawalla, PhD, Associate Economist, RAND
Malpractice Liability and Medical Costs
View Paper

Thursday, December 7, 2006
Amitabh Chandra, PhD, Ass’t Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Univ
The Economics of Treatment Disparities in Healthcare: Evidence from Heart Attack Treatments

 

Spring 2006

Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Kenzie Cameron, PhD, Assistant Professor, Research, GIM, Northwestern University
Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities through Targeted Messages: The Case of Influenza Vaccination

Tuesday, April 4, 2006
Matt Davis, MD, MAPP, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, University of Michigan
Estimating Cost Effectiveness of Vaccines and Incorporating Such Data into Policymaking

Thursday, April 6, 2006
Randall Ellis, Boston University
Health Insurance, Expectations, and Job Turnover

Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Elmer Abbo, MD, JD, Assistant Professor, Section of General Internal Medicine, University of Chicago
The Increasing Complexity of Primary Care

Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Harold Pollack, PhD, Assoc Prof, University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration
The Cost- Utility of Prenatal Screening for Genetic Disorders

Thursday, April 20, 2006
Terry Mason, M.D., Health Commissioner, Chicago Department of Public Health
Healthy Minds - Healthy Bodies

Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Yang Yang, PhD, Ass’t Prof, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
How Does Functional Disability Affect Depressive Symptoms in Late Life? The Role of Perceived Social Support and Psychological Resources

Tuesday, May 2, 2006
Sandra Johnson, JD, LLM, Professor, Tenet Endowed Chair in Health Law & Ethics, St. Louis University
Clinical Trials, Drug Marketing, Off-Label Prescribing and the Law

Tuesday, May 9, 2006
Diane Lauderdale, PhD, Assoc Prof, Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago
How Much Do Adults Sleep? Socioeconomic Factors and Objectively Measured Sleep among Middle-Aged Adults

Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Wesley Yin, PhD, Ass’t Prof, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
Behavioral Response to New Medical Technologies

Thursday, May 18, 2006
Eric Oliver, Assoc Prof, Political Science, Univ. of Chicago
Fat Politics: The Real Story Behind America's Obesity Epidemic

Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Lorens Helmchen, PhD, Assistant Prof, Health Policy & Administration, UIC School of Public Health
Choice of Employment Arrangement in the Market for Hospitalist Services

Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Harriet de Wit, PhD, Assoc Prof, Dept of Psychiatry, University of Chicago and Martin Zelder, PhD, Dept of Economics, Northwestern University & University of Chicago
Discounting, Impulsivity, and Socioeconomic Status: Preliminary Results

 

Winter 2006

Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Michael Grossman, City Univ of New York Dept of Economics and NBER
Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and its Influence on Childhood Obesity
View Paper

Thursday, January 12, 2006
Sebastian Gay, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, University of Chicago
The Impact of Default Rules on Economic Behavior, with Primary Attention to Organ Donation
View Paper

Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Fernando Wilson, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, University of Chicago
Explaining the Growth of Child Obesity in the U.S.
View Paper

Thursday, January 19, 2006
Daniel Polsky, Department of General Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Hospital Mortality for Elderly Whites and Blacks: Do hospitals contribute to the lower life expectancy of Elderly Blacks?

Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Daniel Polsky, Department of General Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Racial Health Disparities: A Comparison of Outcomes from Inpatient Admission in VA and Non-VA Hospitals

Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Andrew Sfekas, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Physician Learning and Patient Length-of-Stay
View Paper

Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Lawrence Casalino, Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago
Do Physicians Favor Pay for Performance? Results from a National Surve

Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Lynda Powell, Director, Section of Epidemiology, Dept of Preventive Medicine, Rush Medical College
A Selected History of Behavioral Clinical Trials: What We Have Learned

Tuesday, February 21, 2006
David Howard, Dept of Health Policy & Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Causes and Consequences of the Rise in Treated Disease Prevalence

Thursday, February 23, 2006
Eric Hedberg, University of Chicago
Using Econometrics to Create Patient Satisfaction Scores
View Paper

Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Louis Cain, Dept of Economics, Loyola University Chicago and Northwestern University
Epidemics, Demonstration Effects, and Municipal Investment in Sanitation Capital
View Paper

Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Sandy Slater, Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago
Findings on Developing Measures of the Environment Using Aerial Photographs

Thursday, March 16, 2006
Anup Malani, JD, PhD, University of Chicago
Surveillance and Reporting of Disease Outbreaks& Private Incentives and WHO Policy Levers
View Paper

 

Fall 2005

Thursday, September 15, 2005
Robert Kaestner, UIC Department of Economics
Effects of Title IX on Adolescent Physical Activity and Body Mass

Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Chris Auld, University of Calgary, CCEHPE Visiting Scholar
Schooling, Cognitive Ability, and Health
View Paper

Tuesday, October 4, 2005
Gary Becker, UC Department of Economics
The New Economics of Mortality
View Paper

Thursday, October 6, 2005
Tomas Philipson, UC Harris School of Public Policy and Anupam Jena, University of Chicago
Surplus Appropriation from R&D and Technology Assessment Procedures

Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Harold Pollack, UC School of Social Service Administration
Harm Reduction in the Control of Infectious Diseases among Injection Drug Users
View Paper

Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Frank Chaloupka, UIC School of Public Health
The Economics of Smoking

Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Michael Quinn, UC Department of Medicine
Effectiveness of a Workplace Organ Donor Program
View Paper

Thursday, October 20, 2005
Arden Handler, UIC School of Public Health; Harold Pollack, UC School of Social Service Administration
Effects of Prenatal Care on Health

Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Chris Browning, Ohio State University
Neighborhood Social Processes, Physical Conditions, and Disaster-Related Mortality:
The Case of the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave
View Paper

Thursday, October 27, 2005
Helen Levy, Research Assistant Professor, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

Tuesday, November 1, 2005
Marion Fitzgibbon, UIC Department of Psychiatry
Breast Cancer Risk Reduction in Minority Populations
View Paper 1
View Paper 2
View Paper 3
View Paper 4

Thursday, November 3, 2005
Mark Stabile, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Toronto
Child Mental Health and Human Capital Accumulation: The Case of ADHD
View Paper

Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Edward Laumann, UC Department of Sociology
Social Networks, Sexual Behavior & STDs
View Paper

Thursday, November 10, 2005
Lindsey Leininger, PhD student, Harris School, Univ. of Chicago
Insurance Coverage and the Healthcare Utilization of Children

Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Steven Levitt, UC Department of Economics
Are Child Safety Seats Any Better than Adult Seatbelts for Kids Aged Two and Up?
View Paper

Thursday, November 17, 2005
David Grabowski, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard
Moral Hazard in Nursing Home Use
View Paper

Thursday, November 17, 2005
Tricia Johnson, Rush University
Reducing SCHIP Coverage: Saving Money or Shifting Costs?
View Paper

Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Deborah Dobrez, UIC School of Public Health
Prospect Theory in Medical Decision Analysis
View Paper

Tuesday, November 29, 2005
David Paltiel, Yale School of Public Health
The Clinical and Preventive Value of Expanded HIV Screening in the United States

Thursday, December 8, 2005
Barry Chiswick, UIC School of Public Health
Immigrant Health: An Economic Analysis

Thursday, December 15, 2005
Emma Adams, Northwestern University (UIC workshop)

 

Spring 2005

Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Elbert Huang and Marshall Chin, UC Dept of Medicine
Cost Evaluation of the Diabetes Health Disparities Collaborative

Tuesday, April 5, 2005
Ted Ganiats, University of California, San Diego
Economic Theory Meets Clinical Controversies in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Thursday, April 7, 2005
Dan Carpenter, Department of Government, Harvard University
Regulatory Error under Two-Sided Uncertainty, or, The Political Economy of Vioxx

Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Martin Zelder, UC Dept of Medicine
Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment and the Incidence of Suicide: An Economic Analysis

Thursday, April 14, 2005
Gautam Gowrisankaran, John M. Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis
Causality and the Volume-Outcome Relationship in Surgery

Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Dean Lillard, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University
The Effect of Advertising Exposure on Smoking Experimentation

Thursday, April 21, 2005
Susan Curry, UIC Institute for Health Research and Policy
Health Care Utilization & Costs Associated with Smoking Cessation & Continued Smoking

Thursday, April 21, 2005
Paul Dolan, Health Economics and Decision Science, University of Sheffield
Interpretations of Utility and Their Implications for the Valuation of Health

Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Puneet Manchanda, UC Graduate School of Business
The Role of Targeted Communication and Contagion in Adoption: An Individual Level Analysis in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Thursday, April 28, 2005
Tomas Philipson, UC Harris School of Public Policy
Assessing the Speed vs. Safety Tradeoff of the FDA: The Case of the Prescription Drug User Fee Acts
View Paper

Tuesday, May 3, 2005
Sara Markowitz, Rutgers-Newark and NBER
The Effect of Child Access Prevention Laws on Gun-Related Injuries

Thursday, May 5, 2005
Noel Chavez, UIC School of Public Health
Food Security-An Intersection of Behavior and Economics

Thursday, May 5, 2005
Rick Mayes, Department of Political Science, University of Richmond
The Rise of ADHD Prevalence and Area Variation in Psychostimulant Consumption in the U.S.
View Paper

Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Michael Kattan, Cleveland Clinic, Dept. of Quantitative Health Sciences
Targeting High-risk Individuals for Cancer Treatment

Thursday, May 12, 2005
Hsin-yu Tseng, UC Department of Economics
Adverse Medical Conditions and Health Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Erez Yoeli, UC Graduate School of Business
The Effects of Abortion and Contraceptives on the Spread of Venereal Disease

Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Kenneth E. Warner, University of Michigan School of Public Health
The Role of Research in a Politically Charged Environment: The Making of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

Thursday, May 19, 2005
Anthony LoSasso, University of Illinois at Chicago
Bruce Meyer, University of Chicago
The Health Care Safety Net and Crowd-Out of Private Health Insurance
View Paper

Tuesday, May 24, 2005
William Dale, UC Dept of Medicine
Joint Health States vs. Single Health States

Thursday, May 26, 2005
Catherine McLaughlin, University of Michigan School of Public Health
The Myth of ER Diversion

Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Sven Wilson, Brigham Young University and UC Center for Population Economics
Marriage, Health and Mortality: Old and New Evidence

Wednesday, June 1, 2005
Suzanne Conzen, University of Chicago, Department of Medicine
Thomas Krausz, University of Chicago, Department of Pathology
What is Breast Cancer? From Diagnosis to Treatment

Thursday, June 2, 2005
Will Manning, UC Harris School of Public Policy
Price Effects on Alcohol Demand

 

Winter 2005 Archive

Wednesday, January 5, 2005
Morton Silverman, UC Dept. of Psychiatry and National Suicide Prevention Technical Resource Center; Mark Heyrman, UC Law School; Martin Zelder, UC Dept. of Medicine and CCEHPE
Suicide Prevention: Legal, Economic, and Psychiatric Perspectives

Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Elbert Huang and David Meltzer, UC Dept. of Medicine
Self-Selection and the Cost-Effectiveness of Diabetes Care: The Importance of Choice in the Evaluation of Health Promotion Activities

Thursday, January 13, 2005
Paul Goldstein, UIC School of Public Health; Lorens Helmchen, UIC School of Public Health and Institute of Government and Public Affairs; Brian Flay, UIC School of Public Health and Dept. of Psychology
How a Sociologist/Psychologist/Economist Thinks of Health-Promoting Behavior

Thursday, January 13, 2005
Nigel Gannon, UC Dept. of Sociology
Adolescent Social Spheres: The Influence of Family, School, and Peer Groups on Health Behaviors
View Paper

Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Harriet de Wit, UC Dept. of Psychiatry
Deconstructing Impulsivity: Applications to Drug Abuse

Thursday, January 20, 2005
Teri Arthur, UC School of Social Service Administration
The Role of Social Support Networks in Racially Disparate Pathways to Kidney Transplantation

Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Linda Diamond-Shapiro and Dan Mukundan, Access Community Health Network
How Can Community Health Centers Survive and Thrive?

Thursday, January 27, 2005
Avraham Stoler, Department of Economics, University of Chicago
Mortality Risk and Economic Behavior

Tuesday, February 1, 2005
Brian Flay, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago
Smoking Prevention: History, Promises, Disappointments, and Successes

Tuesday, February 8, 2005
Lan Liang, UIC Department of Economics
An Economic Analysis of College Alcohol Bans

Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Eva Deuchert, University of Freiburg and UCSF
Rational Sex in Times of AIDS? HIV Prevalence and Sexual Behavior in Zambia

Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Tomas Philipson, UC Harris School of Public Policy
Economic Aspects of Pharmaceutical Regulation

Thursday, February 24, 2005
Rhiannon Edwards, MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA
The Social & Business Cases for Investment in Health Promotion: Traveling the Spectrum of US Health Care

Friday, February 25, 2005
Panel: Eric Klinenberg, PhD, Department of Sociology, New York University; Jackie Reed, MSW, Executive Director, Westside Health Authority; Ami M. Shah, MPH, Project Director, Sinai Urban Health Institute; Cedric Herring, PhD, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago
What is the Place of Community and Neighborhood in Health Disparities Research?

Tuesday, March 1, 2005
Anirban Basu, UC Dept of Medicine
Trends in Co-Occurring Schizophrenia and Cardiovascular Risks and the Role of Antipsychotic Medications

Thursday, March 3, 2005
David Paltiel, Yale School of Public Health
The Clinical and Preventive Value of Expanded HIV Screening in the United States

Tuesday, March 8, 2005
Charles L. Bennett, Northwestern University School of Medicine
Colorectal Cancer Screening at an Inner-City VA

Thursday, March 10, 2005
Richard Warnecke, UIC School of Public Health
A multi-level Model for Addressing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Stage of Diagnosis in Breast Cancer

Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Paul Goldstein, UIC School of Public Health
Promoting Health in the Correctional System and in Re-Entry to the Community