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 […]