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 […]
Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite submissions for the 10th Workshop in Behavioral and Experimental Health Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam on December 11th and 12th, 2025. The workshop is part of the activities of the Behavioral Experiments in Health Network and brings together economists and behavioral scientists who apply behavioral-economics insights and experimental methods to […]
Add to Calendar! We estimate the direct and spillover effects of cannabis legalization on longstanding racial disparities in criminal justice outcomes. We find that legalization reduces cannabis possession and sales arrests for White and Black populations, narrowing but not eliminating disparities. We also find spillover increases in hospitalizations involving cannabis and other illegal drugs. However, […]
Add to Calendar! The growing prevalence of dementia in the United States underscores an urgent need to understand and strengthen the workforce providing this specialized care. This seminar presents findings from the National Dementia Workforce Study, sponsored by the U.S. National Institute on Aging. This is the first large-scale, annual survey program systematically tracking the […]
