Add to Calendar!  In this session, we will start giving an overview of the relevance of strategic purchasing to progress towards universal health coverage, the key elements of strategic purchasing and the related policy instruments. This will include specification of benefits (including conditions of access, such as referral systems and cost-sharing), provider selection, provider payment […]

Add to Calendar! We study habit formation in annual biometric health screenings using a field experiment that randomly assigned financial incentives to 4,799 employees over three years. We document evidence of strong habit formation from initial exposure: completing the first screening raised subsequent screening rates by 32.4-36.0 percentage points (84%-90%) in the second and third […]

Add to Calendar! Several studies have documented that the early life health endowment is predictive of later life earnings. We demonstrate this again, using historical data from America and Sweden. In both cases, we identify skill acquisition as a pathway. In a departure from most existing research, we show that realization of the full potential […]

Add to Calendar!  Join us for a webinar exploring the intricacies of benefit, financing, and fiscal incidence analyses in the health sector. This session will feature three case studies from diverse countries—Indonesia, Sierra Leone, and the United Kingdom—representing different income groups and regions. Following the presentations, experts will engage in a lively discussion on the […]

Add to Calendar Access to health services is often viewed as primarily a logistic issue, without considering the role of social norms. Economic theory suggests social image concerns interact with logistical factors like distance and observability, acting as a social multiplier to strengthen or weaken their impact. We examine this interaction in a large-scale field […]

Add to Calendar! This webinar will introduce the recent work on cost-effectiveness and budget impact thresholds with the aim of strengthening the methodological foundations of economic evaluations for health policy development. The discussion will start with 2023 publication of the faculty members in The Lancet Global Health, that has introduced a novel method to estimate […]

Add to Calendar! This webinar will explore key concepts, methods, and international evidence on health inequality aversion. The session will begin with an introduction to health inequality aversion and an overview of one of the methods used to elicit the parameters. It is followed by presentations from four countries, Australia, Uganda, Japan, and India, that […]

Add to Calendar Health policymakers often turning to social scientists for insights about how to improve citizens’ health decisions and outcomes. However, these insights can only inform policy insofar as they are comparable—and unfortunately, different intervention ideas are typically tested across different samples on different outcomes over different time intervals. In my talk, I will […]

Add to Calendar Linking individuals across administrative registers, we investigate impacts of antidepressant treatment among Danish children who have been referred to a child psychiatrist. Leveraging conditional random assignment of patients to psychiatrists with different prescribing tendencies, we find that treatment increases school test scores. These impacts are larger among children of mothers who have […]

Add to Calendar As algorithmic decision-making tools—ranging from traditional rule-based models to advanced AI systems that learn from data—become integral to clinical care, understanding their real-world impact is more crucial than ever. This panel brings together experts to explore the evidence behind effectiveness, scalability, and equity of these applications across diverse healthcare settings—from high-income to […]

The Financing for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Special Interest Group (SIG) is organizing an online networking session before the 2025 IHEA Conference to be held in Bali, Indonesia. This SIG brings together a global network of health economists specializing in health financing, with a focus on financing policies and reforms that support the pursuit of […]

The Financing for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Special Interest Group (SIG) is organizing an online networking session before the 2025 IHEA Conference to be held in Bali, Indonesia. This SIG brings together a global network of health economists specializing in health financing, with a focus on financing policies and reforms that support the pursuit of […]