Yale Health Policy Colloquium (HPA 617)
Fall 2011

60 College Street, Room 102 | 12-1:15pm


Welcome to the Yale Health Policy Colloquium website for Fall 2011. Speakers and dates are listed below. For more information on each speaker, please click the speaker's name to visit his/her website. Papers will be available for download at least one week before the talk.

For faculty members who would like to meet with the speaker, please follow the link below the speaker's name, and sign up for your preferred half-hour time slot. This link will be made available one week before the speaker's talk. Sign-ups will be on a first-come, first-serve basis for faculty members. Graduate students on the HPA colloquium listserve will be sent an email about open time slots two days before the talk, and sign-ups will again proceed on a first-come, first-serve basis.

To become part of the HPA colloquium listserve, please click here. Thanks! We look forward to seeing you at the colloquium.

Achyuta Adhvaryu and Jody Sindelar

Date Speaker Institution Paper
9/14/2011 Grant Miller Stanford Health Policy A Cluster Randomized Trial of Provider Incentives for Anemia Reduction in Rural China
9/21/2011 Michael Dickstein Cowles post-doc, Stanford economics Patient vs. Physician Incentives in Prescription Drug Choice
9/28/2011 Jessica Cohen Harvard School of Public Health Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and Targeting of Malaria Treatment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
10/5/2011 Timothy Hoff SUNY Albany Don't Look Now: A Sociological Perspective on the U.S. Primary Care Crisis
10/12/2011 Vincent Pohl Yale economics Medicaid and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers: Implications for Health Care Reform
10/19/2011 Ahmed Khwaja Yale SOM Dynamics of Thirst Management: Balancing Short Run Consumption Needs and Long Run Goals
10/26/2011 Jason Abaluck NBER/Yale SOM What Would We Eat if We Knew More: The Implications of a Large-Scale Change in Nutrition Labeling
11/2/2011 Jonathan Kolstad Wharton Mandate-Based Health Reform and the Labor Market: Evidence from Massachusetts
11/9/2011 Charles Courtemanche UNC Greensboro Does Universal Coverage Improve Health? The Massachusetts Experience
11/16/2011 Olga Yakusheva Yale HPA / Marquette economics Estimating peer influences on body weight using roommate assignment as a natural experiment
11/30/2011 Erdal Tekin Georgia State Is the Foreclosure Crisis Making Us Sick?
12/14/2011 Catherine MacLean
[meet with speaker] 		Cornell University The health effects of leaving school in a bad economy (Job Market Paper)

Faculty organizers: Achyuta Adhvaryu and Jody Sindelar
Admin: Marie Young and Carolyn Cummings