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Successfully Navigating Your PhD: A Mentoring Workshop for 3rd Year + Women & Non-Binary PhD Students

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Organizers: Amanda Agan, Vellore Arthi, Marianne Bitler, Rowena Gray, Erin Hengel, Elaine Hill, Bhagyashree Katare, Maya Rossin-Slater, Carolyn Sloane, Jenna Stearns, Lucy Xiaolu Wang, Sabrina Young With Support from AEA-CSWEP APPLICATIONS DUE: June 3, 2022   Purpose In most economics and economics-adjacent PhD programs, students will have completed their coursework and chosen their fields by […]

IHEA 15th Annual Congress in Cape Town

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Cape Town International Convention Centre Cape Town, South Africa

The 15th IHEA World Congress on Health Economics will be held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from July 8-12, 2023.  The Health Economics Unit of the University of Cape Town, which is the oldest health economics research centre in Africa, will host the congress. Click here to view the short congress invitation video and preview some […]

Early Childhood Health Inequalities and In-Utero Health Interventions: Evidence from the Treatment of Gestational Diabetes

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Featured speaker: Gabriella Conti, Professor, University College London Gabriella Conti is a Professor at the Department of Economics, University College London. Her areas of interest are health economics, the economics of human development, and biology and economics. Gabriella has published in top journals in different disciplines, such as Science, PNAS, Pediatrics, the Economic Journal, the […]

Antidepressant Treatment in Childhood

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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 […]

Do Vaping Taxes Tip the Scale? The Effect of E-Cigarette Taxation on Obesity

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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), […]

1. Costs of Technological Frictions: Evidence from EHR (Non-)Interoperability 2. Sharing is Caring: The Role of Health Information Exchange on Patient Care

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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 […]

The introduction of PrEP on HIV: Incidence, Mortality and Heterogeneity

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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 […]