Frontiers in Mortality, Risk & Insurance Seminar Series

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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

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