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Collaborative Health Economics Seminar Series (CHESS)

The Collaborative Health Economics Seminar Series (CHESS) aims to disseminate current research in health economics at an advanced technical level.

Seminar organizers: Lorens Helmchen, Avi Dor

Academic Year 2024-2025

Date* Floor**SpeakerAffiliation.                                    Presentation Title
Oct 2hybridNicholas TilipmanJohns Hopkins UniversityProvider Market Power and Adverse Selection in Health Insurance Markets: Evidence from the California Benefits Exchange
Nov 6hybridEffrosyni AdamopoulouZEW Leibniz Centre for European Economic ResearchThe Role of Friends in the Opioid Epidemic 
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* The seminar meets in the first week of the month 12-1:15pm during the academic year.

** Unless indicated otherwise, the seminars are held online only.

Please email Lorens Helmchen if you'd like to be added to the mailing list.

The seminars are not recorded.

No prior registration is required.

Academic Year 2023-2024

Date*  Floor**SpeakerAffiliation.                                    Title
Oct 5hybridMartin KarlssonDuisburg-EssenAlive and Kicking? Short-Term Health Effects of a Physician Strike in Germany
Nov 2onlineMolly SchnellNorthwesternThe Effects of Competition on Physician Prescribing
Dec 7hybridThomas KochFederal Trade CommissionInsurer-Provider Integration in Healthcare Markets: Evidence from an Insurer Switch
Feb 1onlineZarek Brot-GoldbergChicagoPrivatizing Social Health Insurance: Medicare Advantage vs. Traditional Medicare
Mar 7onlineMarcus DillenderVanderbiltAir Pollution, Wildfire Smoke, and Worker Health
Apr 4onlineAlon BergmanPennMeasuring Hospital Inpatient Procedure Access Inequality in the United States
May 2hybridJetson Leder-LuisBoston UniversityCan Machine Learning Target Health Care Fraud? Evidence from Medicare Hospitalizations

Academic Year 2022-2023

Date*Floor**SpeakerAffiliationTitle
Sep 1onlineSalama FreedGWUCompetition Between Long-Term Care Providers: Evidence From the Introduction of Nursing Home Compare
Nov 3onlineCatherine MacleanGeorge MasonEvictions and Psychiatric Treatment
Dec 1onlineDan ZeltzerTel AvivThe Impacts of Increased Access to Regular and Device-Assisted Telemedicine
Feb 2onlineJeah JungGeorge MasonIs Medicare Advantage More Efficient Than Traditional Medicare?
Mar 2onlineElena PragerRochesterRegulating Out-of-Network Hospital Payments: Disagreement Payoffs, Negotiated Prices, and Access
Apr 6onlinePaul EliasonBYUAmbulance Taxis: The Impact of Regulation and Litigation on Health Care Fraud
Apr 13onlinePhilip HeldStanfordMedicare’s Kidney Transplantation Program: Shortcomings and Solutions
May 4onlineMichael RichardsBaylor/CornellHospital Behavior Over the Private Equity Life Cycle

Academic Year 2021-2022

Date*Floor**SpeakerAffiliationTitle
Oct 7onlineAnuj GangopadhyayaUrban InstituteRacial and Payer Differences in Patient Safety Between and Within Hospitals
Nov 4onlineJoshua GottliebChicagoThe Rise of Healthcare Jobs
Dec 2onlineAlice ChenSouthern CaliforniaDoes Growth in Pharmaceutical Demand Raise R&D Costs? Evidence from Medicare Part D
Feb 3onlineErdal TekinAmericanPublic Health Policy at Scale: Impact of a Government-Sponsored Information Campaign on Infant Mortality in Denmark
Mar 3onlineLeila AghaDartmouthFixing Misallocation with Guidelines: Awareness vs. Adherence
Apr 7onlineBenjamin AvuwadahFlorida / GWImpacts of armed conflict on household dietary diversity and food consumption patterns: Evidence from Nigeria
May 5onlineAdam LeiveVirginiaIs Adverse Selection Progressive? Theory and Evidence from Health Insurance Choices
 

Academic Year 2020-2021

Date*Floor**SpeakerAffiliationTitle
Sep 3onlineLen NicholsUrban InstituteCollaborative Financing of Social Determinants of Health: Before and After COVID-19
Oct 1onlineAlessandra FeniziaGWUThe Health Impacts of Hospital Delivery Practices
Nov 5onlineKelly JonesAmericanTargeted Regulations on Abortion Providers: Impacts on Women's Education and Future Income
Dec 3onlineSebastian Tello-TrilloVirginiaThe Introduction of PrEP and HIV: Incidence, Mortality and Heterogeneity
Feb 4onlineRadhika JainStanfordPrivate Hospital Responses to Reimbursement Changes Under Public Insurance: Evidence From India
Mar 4onlinePhil SaynischNCQAModel Homes: Evaluating Approaches to Patient-Centered Medical Home Implementation
Apr 1onlineMarion AouadUC IrvineAn Examination of the Intracorrelation of Family Health Insurance
May 6onlineBenjamin UkertTexas A&MHow do "Must Access" Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Address Opioid Misuse?
 

Academic Year 2019-2020

Date*Floor**SpeakerAffiliationTitle
Sep 55Jeah JungPenn StateIntegration and Chemotherapy Spending in Medicare
Oct 35Adam PilnyRWI EssenAre Doctors Better Health Ministers?
Nov 46Andrew FriedsonUC DenverAn Apple a Day? Adult Food Stamp Eligibility and Health Care Utilization Among Immigrants
Nov 76Guy DavidWhartonInformation, Relative Performance, and Technology Abandonment
Dec 56Vincent PohlMathematicaPatient vs. Provider Incentives in Long-Term Care
Feb 66Felix ReichlingPenn Wharton Budget ModelFinancing Medicare Expansion in the U.S.
Mar 56Daniel PolskyHopkinsProvider Networks and Health Plan Premium Variation
Apr 26Kelly JonesAmericancanceled
May 76Sebastian Tello-TrilloVirginiacanceled

Academic Year 2018-2019

Date*Floor**SpeakerAffiliationTitle
Nov 13Ambar La ForgiaPennPhysician Organization and Incentives in Childbirth: Evidence from Physician Practice Management Companies
Nov 84Ian McCarthyEmoryPhysician Behavior and Hospital Influence
Nov 156Aparna SoniIndianaHealth Insurance, Price Changes, and the Demand for Pain Relief Drugs
Nov 29 Ali MoghtaderiGWUDamage Caps and Defensive Medicine: Reexamination with Patient Level Data
Apr 44Seth Richards-ShubikLehighMeasuring Quality Effects in Equilibrium
May 26Samuel KleinerFTCHospital Treatment and Patient Outcomes: Evidence from Capacity Constraints

Academic Year 2017-2018

Date*Floor**SpeakerAffiliationTitle
Aug 316Tom Van OurtiRotterdam / GWUEffect of screening mammography on breast-cancer mortality: Quasi-experimental evidence from rollout of the Dutch population-based program with 17-year follow-up of a cohort
Sep 145Michael DardenGWUDo Hospitals Cost-Shift? New Evidence from the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program.
Sep 285Jessica LeightAmericanCommunity Health Educators and Maternal Health: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Oct 125Keith FinlayCensusSafety Net Responses to Economic Downturns
Oct 266William EncinosaAHRQThe Impact of Physician Competition and Vertical Integration on Access, Quality, and Costs
Nov 96Zoe McLarenMichiganHIV Treatment as Economic Stimulus: Community Spillover Effects of Mass ART Provision in Rural South Africa
Dec 64David ChanStanfordPrice-setting by Committee: Evidence from Medicare
Jan 254Ali MoghtaderiGWUImpact of Medical Liability Reform on Coronary Artery Disease Management
Feb 84Len NicholsGMUUsing Payment Reform to Reduce Ethnic Disparities Among the Uninsured
Feb 224Robert KaestnerUICEducation and Health: A Causal Age, Period, and Cohort Analysis
Mar 84Anushree VichareGWUPerceptions of Providers’ Communication among the Low-Income: Does Race and Gender Concordance matter?
Mar 226Dan GilliganIFPRICan Agricultural Technology Diffusion be Harnessed to Reduce Malnutrition? Experimental Evidence from Uganda
Apr 126Damien de WalqueWorld BankMitigating under-provision of health services for the poor: A lab-in-the-field experiment in Burkina Faso
Apr 266Eric BarretteHealth Care Cost InstituteBargaining, Competition and Prices in Hospital Markets