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The Center for Demography of Health and Aging, the Department of Risk & Insurance, and the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison hosted a joint seminar series for the 2023-2024 academic year. This weekly seminar series explored frontier research in health/mortality, risk, and insurance. The seminar occurred on Fridays from 3:00-4:15pm in Grainger Hall (975 University Ave, Madison, WI).
The series was co-hosted by Héctor Pifarré i Arolas, Philip Mulder, Stuart Vincent Craig, and Jason Fletcher.
Spring 2024 Schedule
January 26, 2024: RESCHEDULED! “The Long-Run Effects of Residential Racial Desegregation Programs: Evidence from Gautreaux,” Rob Collinson, University of Notre Dame
- Rm. 4151
February 2, 2024: “Longevity and its Transmission Across Generations in the US,” Adriana Lleras Muney, UCLA
- Rm. 3070
February 9, 2024: “When Insurers Exit: Climate Losses, Fragile Insurers, and Mortgage Markets,” Ishita Sen, Havard University
- Rm. 3180
February 16, 2024: “Market Design in Regulated Health Insurance Markets: Risk Adjustment vs. Subsidies,” Liran Einav, Stanford University
- Rm. 3180
February 23, 2024: “The Long-run Effect of Air Pollution on Survival,” Julian Reif, University of Illinois
- Rm. 3070
March 1, 2024: “Does mortality decelerate at the highest ages?” Roland Rau, University of Rostock
- Rm. 3070
March 8, 2024: “What’s happening to US mortality since the Covid-19 pandemic?” Elizabeth Wrigley Field, University of Minnesota
- Virtual (Zoom)
March 15, 2024: “Regulatory Competition in the US Life Insurance Industry,” Johnny Tang, Cornell University
- Rm. 4151
March 22, 2024: No seminar
March 29, 2024: No seminar; Spring Recess
April 5, 2024: “Racial Dynamics of Federal Property Buyouts in Flood-Prone Areas,” Chris Timmins, UW-Madison
- Rm. 4151
April 12, 2024: “The Long-Run Effects of Residential Racial Desegregation Programs: Evidence from Gautreaux,” Rob Collinson, University of Notre Dame
- Rm. 4151
April 26, 2024: “Life Expectancy Leaders and Laggards: Causes of Best and Worst Performance in High-Income Countries,” Jessica Ho, Penn State University
- Rm. 4151 from 10:45am-12:00pm (different time!)
May 3, 2024: “Multivariate Spatiotemporal Models for County Level Mortality Data in the Contiguous United States,” Brian Hartman, Brigham Young University
- Rm. 4151
Fall 2023 Schedule
September 8, 2023: “Moral Hazard Induced Unraveling,” Cameron Ellis, University of Iowa (paper)
September 15, 2023: No Seminar
September 22, 2023: “Family Trees and Falling Apples: Intergenerational Mobility Estimates from U.S. Genealogy Data,” Joe Price, Brigham Young University
September 29, 2023: No Seminar
October 6, 2023: “Enhancing Health Data at the U.S. Census Bureau,” Victoria Udalova, U.S. Census Bureau
October 13, 2023: “Opportunities in Health Actuarial Research,” Ian Duncan, University of California Santa Barbara
October 20, 2023: “Worker Valuation of Retirement Benefits,” Allison Cole, Arizona State University
October 27, 2023: “Early-Life Exposures and Later-Life Mortality,” Hamid Noghanibehambari, Austin Peay University
November 3, 2023: “Extending Evidence for the Importance of Fetal Programming on Old Age Mortality,” Jason Fletcher, UW-Madison
November 10, 2023: “The persistence of immigrant mortality advantages over multiple generations: results from the CenSoc project,” Josh Goldstein, University of California Berkley
November 17, 2023: “The Productivity of Professions: Evidence from the Emergency Department,” Yiqun Chen, University of Illinois-Chicago
November 24, 2023: NO MEETING – Thanksgiving Break
December 1, 2023: CANCELLED “What do, and don’t, we learn from the Black-white mortality disparity?,” Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, University of Minnesota
December 8, 2023: **VIRTUAL ONLY** “The Long-Term Effects of Income for At-Risk Infants:
Evidence from Supplemental Security Income,” Sarah Miller, University of Michigan (Zoom)
December 15, 2023: NO MEETING – Final Exams