The deadline for abstracts submission for the 2nd Croatian Health Economics Workshop is approaching. The workshop – organised by the Croatian Health Economics Association - will take place in Dubrovnik on 20th-22nd May 2024. Prof Stephanie Von Hinke will deliver the keynote speech this year. Please see here for all details about the call and workshop. […]
We are pleased to announce an open call for papers for the 2024 Rosenkranz Global Health Policy Research Symposium at Stanford University, to take place on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. The Symposium is a day-long event that showcases innovative global health policy research from any discipline. The keynote speaker will be Mark Dybul, Co-Director of […]
Featured speaker: Rowena Jacobs May 23 at 7am EST / 12-noon BST REGISTER NOW
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Does deferring school entry for children born just before the enrollment cutoff date improve their mental well-being? We address this question using administrative data on prescriptions for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in England. Higher ADHD rates among early school starters are often attributed to a peer-comparison bias caused by differences in relative age among […]
Increasingly, low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are considering establishing or expanding health insurance (HI) to achieve universal health coverage (UHC). However, the evidence on the impact of HI in LMICs over the last 20 years is mixed. The session will explore the motivations of a country to pursue health insurance, and what we have learned […]
Professor Veenstra will present his research evaluating the benefits, risks, and costs of population-level genomic screening for adults. Drivers, barriers, and evidence gaps for both rare, high-risk genomic variants and more common moderate risk stratification approaches will be discussed. This presentation is part of the Econ-Omics Talks series and will include a brief speaker interview […]
Submissions are now open for the 13th Workshop on the Economics of Risky Behavior, scheduled to take place in Opatija, Croatia on July 4-5, 2024. Keynote Speaker: Giovanni Mastrobuoni (University of Torino) Organizers: Erdal Tekin (School of Public Affairs, American University & NBER) Ana Bobinac, Igor Francetic, Lana Kovacevic (Croatian Health Economics Association) Workshop Dates: […]
July 8-12, 2024, online Faculty Owen O’Donnell is Professor of Applied Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is a Research Fellow of the Tinbergen Institute, Netspar and the CESR/Schaefer Center for the Study of Health Inequality. Tom Van Ourti is Professor of Applied Health Economics with a focus on health and inequality at Erasmus University Rotterdam and a Research […]
July 8-12, 2024, online Faculty Owen O’Donnell is Professor of Applied Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is a Research Fellow of the Tinbergen Institute, Netspar and the CESR/Schaefer Center for the Study of Health Inequality. Tom Van Ourti is Professor of Applied Health Economics with a focus on health and inequality at Erasmus University Rotterdam and a Research […]
