Past seminars

2018

• 11 October 2018 – Stefanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder (Bristol, ESE) – 12:15-13:15 – room H10-31
• 20 September 2018 – Maarten Voors (Wageningen University) – 12:00-13:00 – room H12-30
  Title: Healthcare Delivery during Crises: Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone’s Ebola Outbreak
• 5 July 2018 – John Cawley (Cornell University) – 12:00-13:00 – room H9-2
  Title: The Impact of Information Disclosure on Consumer Behavior: Results from a Randomized Field Experiment of Calorie Labels on Restaurant Menus
• 21 June 2018 – Daniel Wiesen (Cologne) – 12:00 - 13:00 – room H12-30
  Title: Physician performance pay: Experimental evidence
• 7 June – Aki Tsuchiya (Sheffield University) – 12:00 - 13:00 – room H12-30
  Title: Comparing inequality and risk aversion in social welfare for health and income: an empirical analysis using hypothetical scenarios with losses
• 31 May 2018 –  Elisabeth Huynh (Sydney) – 12:00 - 13:00 – room J-55
  Title: The Preference Structure of Denstists’ Job Search and Choice 
• 17 May 2018 – Titus Galama (University of South California/Erasmus School of Economics) – 12:00-13:00 – room H09-02
  Title: Gene-by-SES interplay in health behavior: theory and empirics
• 23 May 2018 - Kevin Volpp (University of Pennysylvania) - 14:00 - 15:00 - room M12-12 (on a Wednesday)
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• 12 April 2018 – Maarten Voors (Wageningen University) – 11:00-12:00 – room H12-30
  Title: Healthcare Delivery during Crises: Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone’s Ebola Outbreak
• 22 March 2018 – Guido Erreygers (University of Antwerp) – 15:00-16:00 – room H12-30.
  Title: Decomposing rank- and level-dependent indicators of income-related inequality of health: A comparison of recent regression-based approaches
• 15 February 2018 –  Libertad González (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) – 12:00-13:00 – room H12-30.
  Title: The Effect of an Income Shock at Birth on Child Health: Evidence from a Child Benefit in Spain
• 26 February 2018 – Carol Propper (Imperial College London)  – 12:00-13:00 – room H09-02.
  Title: Internet and Health Choices: Evidence from the UK
• 25 January 2018 – Adriaan Kalwij (Utrecht University) – 12:00-13:00 – room H12-30.
  Title: The Effects of Competition Outcomes on Health: Evidence from the Lifespans of U.S. Olympic Medalists

2017

• 11 December 2017 - Sam Harper (McGill University) - 12:00-13:00 - Erasmus Medical Center (different location)
  Title: Can we tax our way to more equitable tobacco use? Evidence from Canada
• 16 November 2017 - Oddvar Martin Kaarbøe (University of Oslo) - 12:00-13:00 - room J7-55
  Title: The Impact of Cost Sharing for Mental Health Care on Health Care Use and Employment
• 23 November 2017 - Bastian Ravesteijn (Harvard Medical School/Université Paris Descartes) - 12:00-13:00 - room H10-31
  Title: The Impact of Cost Sharing for Mental Health Care on Health Care Use and Employment
• 22 June 2017: Marianne Tenand (Paris School of Economics)
  Title: Being dependent rather than handicapped in France: does the institutional barrier at age 60 affect care arrangements?
• 20 June: Carlos Riumallo-Herl (Harvard School of Public Health)
  Title: Pension fund choice, wealth and mortality: The fatal price of unlucky investment decisions
• 8 June: Olivier l’Haridon (Université of Rennes)
  Title: Measuring ambiguity preferences for health
• 1 June: Iris Kesternich (KU Leuven)
  Title: Early-life circumstances predict measures of trust among adults: Evidence from hunger episodes in Post-War Germany
• 19 May: Raf van Gestel (University of Antwerp)
  Title: A Reminder to Pay Less for Healthcare: Take-up of Increased Reimbursement in a Large-Scale Randomized Field Experiment
• 18 May: Hannes Schwandt (University of Zurich)
  Title: The Lasting Legacy of Seasonal Influenza: In-utero Exposure and Labor Market Outcomes
• 9 May: Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert (Stanford School of Medicine)
  Title: Nudges in Exercise Commitment Contracts: A Randomized Trial
• 6 April: Alec Morton (University of Strathclyde)
  Title: Allocation rules for global donors
• 30 March: Martin Salm (University of Tilburg)
  Title: Behavioral responses to patient co-payment schemes – does the framing of cost-sharing incentives matter?
• 28 March: Ronelle Burger (Stellenbosch University)
  Title: Negative household events and depressive symptoms: Evidence from South African longitudinal data
• 16 March: Pieter van Baal (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
  Title: Distributional consequences of including survivor costs in economic evaluations
• 16 February: Thomas Rouyard (Oxford University)
  Title: Trade-off between behaviour change and health outcomes: an analysis under prospect theory
• 26 January: Teresa Molina (University of South California)
  Title: Pollution, Ability, and Gender-Specific Investment Responses to Shocks
• 19 January: Sandy Tubeuf (University of Leeds)
  Title: Pupil’s effort and educational inequality of opportunity, Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
• 12 January: Yubraj Acharya (University of Michigan School of Public Health)
  Title: Barriers to Inter-Ethnic Interactions in Healthcare: Evidence from a Field Experiment

2016

• 15 December: Richard Peter (University of Iowa)
  Title: Endogenous Information, Adverse Selection, and Prevention: Implications for Genetic Testing Policy"
• 6 December: Joseph Newhouse (Harvard University)
  Title: Competition among American health insurers in the individual market
• 22 November: Yannan Hu (Erasmus Medical Center)
  Title: Did the English strategy reduce inequalities in health?
• 10 November: Zoe McLaren (University of Michigan)
  Title: A New Econometric Method for Estimating Disease Prevalence: An Application to Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis
• 03 November: Bernard van den Berg (University of Groningen)
  Title: Wellbeing and the monetary value of a QALY
• 20 October: Marjon van der Pol (University of Aberdeen)
  Title: Can we improve the measurement of time preference to enhance predictive validity of health behaviours?
• 13 October: Jan van Ours (Erasmus School of Economics)
  Title: Tobacco control policies and the age of onset of smoking in Europe
• 8 September: Pietro Biroli (University of Zurich)
  Title: Genetic and Economic Interaction in Health Formation: The Case of Obesity
• 27 June: Gaute Torsvik (University of Oslo)
  Title: Gatekeeping versus monitoring: Evidence from a case with extended self-reporting of sickness absence
• 16 June: Damien de Walque (World Bank)
  Title: Measuring and incentivizing effort, quality of care and willingness to serve the poor: lab-in-the-field experiments and video-vignettes with health professionals in Burkina Faso
• 2 June: Sara Ribeirinho Machado (LSE Health)
  Title: Stability, cross validity, and external validity of risk preference measures: experimental evidence from a UK representative sample
• 2 June: Ingrid Steenhuis (VU University Amsterdam)
  Title: Portion size and Pricing: Interventions in the Obesogenic Food Environment
• 18 May: Gil Shapira (World Bank)
  Title: Evaluation of the Rwanda Community Performance-Based Financing Program: Supply- and Demand-Side Incentives to increase coverage of maternal and child health care
• 18 May: Grant Miller (Stanford University)
  Title: Population Policy, Fertility Decline, and Sex Selection: New Evidence from China under Mao
• 21 April: Judit Vall (Pompeu Fabra University)
  Title: What happens with the employment of disabled individuals when all financial disincentives to work are abolished?
• 31 March: Igna Bonfrer (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
  Title: Obama Care: The Effects of the Step-Wise Introduction of Pay-for-Performance
• February 18: Tom McGuire (Harvard Medical School)
  Title: Anticompetitive Effects of Brand-Generic Patent Settlements
• February 15: Michael Lechner (University of St. Gallen)
  Title: The effect of university sports and exercise on educational outcome: Evidence from an RCT in Switzerland
• January 14: Timothy Powell-Jackson (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
  Title: Cash Transfers, Maternal Depression and Subjective Well-being: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Indias Janani Suraksha Yojana programme

2015

• November 20:  Talya Miron-Shatz (Ono Academic College; Center for Medicine in the Public Interest)
  Title: Medical Decision-Making: The Case of the Emotional Sound-Bites
• October 29: Dennis Petrie (Melbourne School of Population and Global Health)
  Title: When are Two Measures better than One? Dealing with Misclassification in Self-Reported Health
• October 14: Thomas Buchmueller (University of Michigan's Ross School of Business)
  Title: How Do Providers Respond to Changes in Public Health Insurance Coverage? Evidence from Adult Medicaid Dental Benefits
• October 5: Eric French (University College London)
  Title: Medicaid Insurance in Old Age
• September 22: Koonal Shah (Office of Health Economics, London & Sheffield University)
  Title: Valuing health at the end of life
• September 21: Christopher Ruhm (University of Virginia)
  Title: Health Effects of Economic Crises
• September 14: Jonathan Kolstad (UC Berkeley)
  Title: What Does a Deductible Do? The Impact of Cost-Sharing on Health Care Prices, Quantities, and Spending Dynamics
• August 27: Denzil Fiebig (The University of New South Wales)
  Title: Complexity and doctor choices when discussing contraceptives
• June 23: Helena Hernández Pizarro (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
  Title:  The Effects of Long-Term Benefits on Dependants’ Mortality
• June 4:  Fabrizio Mazzonna (Università della Svizzera italiana)
  Title: Short-term effects of public smoking bans on health
• May 7. Mehmet Kutluay (VU)
  Title: Valuing malaria morbidity: Results from a global meta-analysis
• March 31. Willem van der Deijl (EIPE)
  Title: What constitutes well-being? Eight views on “a good life” of people from the Netherlands
• March 24. Govern Bijwaard (NIDI)
  Title: Intelligence as a mediator of the mortality difference by education
• February 12. Hana Voňková (Charles University in Prague)
  Title: Testing the assumptions of the anchoring vignette method
• January 22. Martin Huber (University of Fribourg)
  Title: A cautionary tale about control variables in IV estimation - With an application to health economics
• January 14. Rudy Douven (CPB, ESHPM)
  Title: Unintended effects of reimbursement schedules in mental health care

2014

• January 14. Gijsbert Zwart (TILEC, Tilburg University, and CPB)
  Title:  Community rating in health insurance: can it be optimal?
• January 28. Esther W. de Bekker-Grob (Erasmus MC)
  Title:  Discrete choice experiments in health care
• February 18. Katharina Walliczek (University of Mannheim)
  Title:  Exploiting spatial and temporal variation in nutrition at birth, using data on infant mortality and famines: a study of long-run health effects
• February 27. Michael Grimm (University of Passau)
  Title:  Does electrification affect fertility? Evidence from Indonesia
• March 4. Natasha Wagner (International Institute for Social Studies)
  Title:  Do Health Reforms have Long-term Effects? Results for a Follow-up on a Randomized Policy Experiment in the Philippines
• March 11. Pieter van Baal (ESHPM, Erasmus University)
  Title:  Forecasting educational differences in (disability free) life expectancy
• March 18. Tommi Tervonen (Econometric Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam)
  Title:  Multi-criteria decision analysis in health care: preference models and elicitation methods for benefit-risk assessment
• March 25. Ramona Rischke (University of Goettingen)
  Title:  Supermarkets and the Nutrition Transition in Kenya
• April 22. Niels Vermeer (CPB and Tilburg University)
  Title: Demanding occupations and the retirement age in the Netherlands
• May 20. Tobias Klein (Tilburg University)
  Title: The effects of access to health insurance for informally employed individuals in Peru
• June 17. Nicolas R. Ziebarth (Cornell University)
  Title: Food Choices, Novelty Consumption and Obesity: Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism
• September 1. Gordon Dahl (University of California, San Diego)
  Title: Family Welfare Cultures
• September 25. Hiroaki Matsuura (University of Oxford)
  Title: The Role of a Constitutional Right to Health in Population Health: Evidence from 15 Latin American Countries
• October 2. Paul Frijters (University of Queensland)
  Title: Childhood determinants of adult mental health resilience
• October 16. Holger Strulik (University of Goettingen)
  Title: Paradigms and Predictions: Accumulation of Health Capital vs. Accumulation of Health Deficits
• November 6: Peter Savelyev (Vanderbilt University)
  Title: Understanding the Mechanisms Linking Personality and Education with Longevity
• December 1. Gabriela Conti (University College London)
  Title: The Health Effects of Early Childhood Interventions

2013

• February 18. Helena Schmidt (Medical University of Graz)
  Title:  On the intersection of biology and economics: a focus on telomeres
  March 5. Chiara Canta (CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain)
• Title:  Efficiency, access, and the mixed delivery of health care services
  March 12. Miriam Wüst (SFI and Aarhus University)
• Title:  Can Caesarean section improve child and maternal health? The case of breech babies
  March 19. Ursula Rochau (UMIT)
• Title:  Decision-analytic Modeling in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
  April 2. Jacoline Bouvy (iMTA/ESHPM, EUR)
• Title:  The cost-effectiveness of Periodic Safety Update Reports (PSURs) for biologicals in Europe
• April 9. Leander Buisman (iMTA/ESHPM, EUR)
  Title:  Cost-effectiveness analyses of diagnostic tests at the early stages of development
  April 23. Hitoshi Shigeoka (Simon Fraser University)
• Title:  School Cutoff Dates, and the Timing of Births
  May 14. Supon Limwattananon (IHPP & Khon Kaen University) and Sven Neelsen (ESHPM)
• Title:  Consumption smoothing of health shocks under universal coverage
  May 23. Mauricio Avendano (LSE)
• Title:  Economic cycles, unemployment and health: A cross-national study
  June 18. Jonathan Windster (Vrije Universiteit)
• Title:  Docetaxel in the treatment of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: observations in routine daily practice in the Netherlands
  June 25. Nicolas Bouckaert (Center for Economic Studies, K.U. Leuven)
• Title:  Differing types of medical prevention appeal to different individuals
  September 17. Christoph Kronenberg (Center for Health Economics, The University of York)
• Title:  Does relative position matter for mental health?
  October 15. Wilbert B. van den Hout (Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum)
• Title:  The marginal utility of health: is health more important when you have less?
  November 14. Marcos Vera Hernández (University College London)
• Title:  Food for Thought? Breastfeeding and Child Development