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! The webinar will feature presentations from two ECRs. The presenters are: Kelsey Moran - Assistant Professor, Department of Health Management and Policy, Miami Herbert Business School. Presentation: Cost of Technological Frictions: Evidence from EHR (Non-) Interoperability. Interoperability of U.S. hospital electronic health record (EHR) systems remains limited, especially across vendors. We study […]
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 […]
