Add to Calendar! Mental health disorders tend to emerge in childhood, with half starting by age 14. This makes early intervention important, but treatment rates are low, and antidepressant treatment for children remains controversial since an FDA warning in 2004 that highlighted adverse effects. Linking individuals across Danish administrative registers, we provide some of the […]
Add to Calendar! A large literature documents that quitting cigarette smoking may lead to weight gain because nicotine is an appetite suppressant and metabolic stimulant. However, researchers in this literature emphasize that the health benefits of smoking cessation exceed the harms from the weight typically gained. New products, such as electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), […]
Add to Calendar! Two research presentations: 1. Interoperability of U.S. hospital electronic health record (EHR) systems remains limited, especially across vendors. We study how these frictions affect patients through a direct effect on information exchange and an allocative effect on patient flows. When hospitals switch to the same vendor, charges and readmissions fall 4% and […]
Add to Calendar! Speaker: Sebastian Tello - Associate professor of public policy and economics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Sebastian's fields of specialization are Public Economics, Health Economics, and Applied Microeconomics. He has […]
