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 | Format | Speaker | Affiliation | Presentation Title |
| Oct 2 | hybrid | Nicholas Tilipman | Johns Hopkins University | Provider Market Power and Adverse Selection in Health Insurance Markets: Evidence from the California Benefits Exchange |
| Nov 6 | hybrid | Effrosyni Adamopoulou | ZEW Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research | The Role of Friends in the Opioid Epidemic |
| Feb 6 | hybrid | Thomas A. Hegland | AHRQ | Do Multi-State Firms Cause State Health Policies to Have Inter-State Spillover Effects? Evidence from the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansions |
| Mar 6 | hybrid | Matthew Zahn | Bates White | Entry and Competition in Insurance Markets: Evidence from Medicare Advantage |
| Apr 3 | hybrid | David Powell | RAND | |
| May 1 | online only | Tal Gross | Boston University |
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The seminars are not recorded.
No prior registration is required.
Academic Year 2023-2024
| Date* | Floor** | Speaker | Affiliation. | Title |
| Oct 5 | hybrid | Martin Karlsson | Duisburg-Essen | Alive and Kicking? Short-Term Health Effects of a Physician Strike in Germany |
| Nov 2 | online | Molly Schnell | Northwestern | The Effects of Competition on Physician Prescribing |
| Dec 7 | hybrid | Thomas Koch | Federal Trade Commission | Insurer-Provider Integration in Healthcare Markets: Evidence from an Insurer Switch |
| Feb 1 | online | Zarek Brot-Goldberg | Chicago | Privatizing Social Health Insurance: Medicare Advantage vs. Traditional Medicare |
| Mar 7 | online | Marcus Dillender | Vanderbilt | Air Pollution, Wildfire Smoke, and Worker Health |
| Apr 4 | online | Alon Bergman | Penn | Measuring Hospital Inpatient Procedure Access Inequality in the United States |
| May 2 | hybrid | Jetson Leder-Luis | Boston University | Can Machine Learning Target Health Care Fraud? Evidence from Medicare Hospitalizations |
Academic Year 2022-2023
| Date* | Floor** | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| Sep 1 | online | Salama Freed | GWU | Competition Between Long-Term Care Providers: Evidence From the Introduction of Nursing Home Compare |
| Nov 3 | online | Catherine Maclean | George Mason | Evictions and Psychiatric Treatment |
| Dec 1 | online | Dan Zeltzer | Tel Aviv | The Impacts of Increased Access to Regular and Device-Assisted Telemedicine |
| Feb 2 | online | Jeah Jung | George Mason | Is Medicare Advantage More Efficient Than Traditional Medicare? |
| Mar 2 | online | Elena Prager | Rochester | Regulating Out-of-Network Hospital Payments: Disagreement Payoffs, Negotiated Prices, and Access |
| Apr 6 | online | Paul Eliason | BYU | Ambulance Taxis: The Impact of Regulation and Litigation on Health Care Fraud |
| Apr 13 | online | Philip Held | Stanford | Medicare’s Kidney Transplantation Program: Shortcomings and Solutions |
| May 4 | online | Michael Richards | Baylor/Cornell | Hospital Behavior Over the Private Equity Life Cycle |
Academic Year 2021-2022
| Date* | Floor** | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| Oct 7 | online | Anuj Gangopadhyaya | Urban Institute | Racial and Payer Differences in Patient Safety Between and Within Hospitals |
| Nov 4 | online | Joshua Gottlieb | Chicago | The Rise of Healthcare Jobs |
| Dec 2 | online | Alice Chen | Southern California | Does Growth in Pharmaceutical Demand Raise R&D Costs? Evidence from Medicare Part D |
| Feb 3 | online | Erdal Tekin | American | Public Health Policy at Scale: Impact of a Government-Sponsored Information Campaign on Infant Mortality in Denmark |
| Mar 3 | online | Leila Agha | Dartmouth | Fixing Misallocation with Guidelines: Awareness vs. Adherence |
| Apr 7 | online | Benjamin Avuwadah | Florida / GW | Impacts of armed conflict on household dietary diversity and food consumption patterns: Evidence from Nigeria |
| May 5 | online | Adam Leive | Virginia | Is Adverse Selection Progressive? Theory and Evidence from Health Insurance Choices |
Academic Year 2020-2021
| Date* | Floor** | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| Sep 3 | online | Len Nichols | Urban Institute | Collaborative Financing of Social Determinants of Health: Before and After COVID-19 |
| Oct 1 | online | Alessandra Fenizia | GWU | The Health Impacts of Hospital Delivery Practices |
| Nov 5 | online | Kelly Jones | American | Targeted Regulations on Abortion Providers: Impacts on Women's Education and Future Income |
| Dec 3 | online | Sebastian Tello-Trillo | Virginia | The Introduction of PrEP and HIV: Incidence, Mortality and Heterogeneity |
| Feb 4 | online | Radhika Jain | Stanford | Private Hospital Responses to Reimbursement Changes Under Public Insurance: Evidence From India |
| Mar 4 | online | Phil Saynisch | NCQA | Model Homes: Evaluating Approaches to Patient-Centered Medical Home Implementation |
| Apr 1 | online | Marion Aouad | UC Irvine | An Examination of the Intracorrelation of Family Health Insurance |
| May 6 | online | Benjamin Ukert | Texas A&M | How do "Must Access" Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Address Opioid Misuse? |
Academic Year 2019-2020
| Date* | Floor** | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| Sep 5 | 5 | Jeah Jung | Penn State | Integration and Chemotherapy Spending in Medicare |
| Oct 3 | 5 | Adam Pilny | RWI Essen | Are Doctors Better Health Ministers? |
| Nov 4 | 6 | Andrew Friedson | UC Denver | An Apple a Day? Adult Food Stamp Eligibility and Health Care Utilization Among Immigrants |
| Nov 7 | 6 | Guy David | Wharton | Information, Relative Performance, and Technology Abandonment |
| Dec 5 | 6 | Vincent Pohl | Mathematica | Patient vs. Provider Incentives in Long-Term Care |
| Feb 6 | 6 | Felix Reichling | Penn Wharton Budget Model | Financing Medicare Expansion in the U.S. |
| Mar 5 | 6 | Daniel Polsky | Hopkins | Provider Networks and Health Plan Premium Variation |
| Apr 2 | 6 | Kelly Jones | American | canceled |
| May 7 | 6 | Sebastian Tello-Trillo | Virginia | canceled |
Academic Year 2018-2019
| Date* | Floor** | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| Nov 1 | 3 | Ambar La Forgia | Penn | Physician Organization and Incentives in Childbirth: Evidence from Physician Practice Management Companies |
| Nov 8 | 4 | Ian McCarthy | Emory | Physician Behavior and Hospital Influence |
| Nov 15 | 6 | Aparna Soni | Indiana | Health Insurance, Price Changes, and the Demand for Pain Relief Drugs |
| Nov 29 | Ali Moghtaderi | GWU | Damage Caps and Defensive Medicine: Reexamination with Patient Level Data | |
| Apr 4 | 4 | Seth Richards-Shubik | Lehigh | Measuring Quality Effects in Equilibrium |
| May 2 | 6 | Samuel Kleiner | FTC | Hospital Treatment and Patient Outcomes: Evidence from Capacity Constraints |
Academic Year 2017-2018
| Date* | Floor** | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| Aug 31 | 6 | Tom Van Ourti | Rotterdam / GWU | Effect 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 14 | 5 | Michael Darden | GWU | Do Hospitals Cost-Shift? New Evidence from the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program. |
| Sep 28 | 5 | Jessica Leight | American | Community Health Educators and Maternal Health: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial |
| Oct 12 | 5 | Keith Finlay | Census | Safety Net Responses to Economic Downturns |
| Oct 26 | 6 | William Encinosa | AHRQ | The Impact of Physician Competition and Vertical Integration on Access, Quality, and Costs |
| Nov 9 | 6 | Zoe McLaren | Michigan | HIV Treatment as Economic Stimulus: Community Spillover Effects of Mass ART Provision in Rural South Africa |
| Dec 6 | 4 | David Chan | Stanford | Price-setting by Committee: Evidence from Medicare |
| Jan 25 | 4 | Ali Moghtaderi | GWU | Impact of Medical Liability Reform on Coronary Artery Disease Management |
| Feb 8 | 4 | Len Nichols | GMU | Using Payment Reform to Reduce Ethnic Disparities Among the Uninsured |
| Feb 22 | 4 | Robert Kaestner | UIC | Education and Health: A Causal Age, Period, and Cohort Analysis |
| Mar 8 | 4 | Anushree Vichare | GWU | Perceptions of Providers’ Communication among the Low-Income: Does Race and Gender Concordance matter? |
| Mar 22 | 6 | Dan Gilligan | IFPRI | Can Agricultural Technology Diffusion be Harnessed to Reduce Malnutrition? Experimental Evidence from Uganda |
| Apr 12 | 6 | Damien de Walque | World Bank | Mitigating under-provision of health services for the poor: A lab-in-the-field experiment in Burkina Faso |
| Apr 26 | 6 | Eric Barrette | Health Care Cost Institute | Bargaining, Competition and Prices in Hospital Markets |