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
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
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