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RAND Labor & Population Seminars and RAND Health Economics Seminars

For more information on these seminars, or if you would like to meet with any of the speakers, or request a paper, please contact Diana Malouf at (310) 393-0411 ext 6462. For seminar listings and topics from 1999 - 2008, see past seminars.

If you would like to suggest other speakers, please contact Paco Martorell (ext 6386) or Darius Lakdawalla (ext 7896).

Current Seminar Series

Date

Time/Place

Host

Speaker

Title of Seminar

9/16/09

3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
room 4312

Health

Doug Miller
UC Davis

Why are Recessions Good for your Health?

9/28/09

2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
room 5312

L&P

John Bailey Jones
University at Albany

Why do the Elderly Save? The Role of Medical Expenses

10/12/09

2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
room 5312

L&P

Craig R. Fox
UCLA

Naïve Diversification and Partition Dependence in Capital Allocation Decisions: Field and Experimental Evidence

Partition-Dependent Framing Effects in Lab and Field Prediction Markets

10/14/09

12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
room 4312
(Please note non-standard time)

Health

Christopher Carpenter & Marianne Bitler
UC Irvine

Insurance Mandates & Mammography

10/21/09

3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
room 4312

Health

Srikanth Kadiyala
University of Washington

Erin C. Strumpf
McGill University

The Impact of Cancer Screening Guideline Information on Cancer Detection

11/04/09

3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
room 4312

Health

Jim Rebitzer
Boston University

Unhealthy Insurance Markets: Search Frictions and the Cost and Quality of Health Insurance

11/09/09

2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
room 5312

L&P

Matthew Neidell
Columbia University

Environmental Conditions and the Productivity of Agricultural Workers

11/18/09

12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
room 3312
(Please note non-standard time)

Health

Tom Buchmueller
University of Michigan

The Effect of an Employer Health Insurance Mandate on Health Insurance Coverage and the Demand for Labor: Evidence from Hawaii

11/23/09

2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
room 5312

L&P

Till von Wachter
Columbia University

Long-Term Earnings Losses due to Mass Layoffs During the 1982 Recession: An Analysis Using U.S. Administrative Data from 1974 to 2004

12/02/09

3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
room 4312

Health

Meredith Rosenthal
Harvard University

 

12/07/09

2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
room 5312

L&P

Lucas Davis
University of Michigan

 

12/09/09

3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
room 4312

Health

Kate Ho
Columbia University

 


These seminar series are sponsored by the Center for the Study of Aging and the Population Research Center in RAND Labor and Population, and RAND Health.

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