Health Economics Research Group

December 8, 2017
3–5 pm, Memorial Union, Langdon Room

• “The Moral Hazard of Lifesaving Innovations: Naloxone Access, Opioid Abuse, and Crime,” Anita Mukherjee (UW–Madison)
• “The Lifetime Cost of Serious Mental Illness,” Gwyn Pauley (UW–Madison)
• “C-sections and child health,” Jason Fletcher (UW–Madison)
  Discussion:  http://ashecon.org/joinrenew/membership/

November 17, 2017
3–5 pm, Memorial Union, Profile Room

• “A Burnout-Recovery Model to Explain ‘Reverse Retirement’,” Lindsay Jacobs (UW–Madison)
• “Local Market Equilibrium and the Design of Public Health Insurance Program,” Naoki Aizawa (UW–Madison)
• “The Impact of E-Visits on Visit Frequencies and Patient Health: Evidence from Primary Care,” Hessam Bavafa (UW–Madison)
• “Optimal Time Spans for Health Insurance Deductibles,” Corina Mommaerts (UW–Madison)

August 9, 2018
4–6 pm, Memorial Union, Council Room – 4th Floor

• “Labor Market Screening and Social Insurance Program Design for the Disabled,” Naoki Aizawa (UW–Madison)
• SNAP timing and Medicaid utilization, Chad Cotti (UW–Oshkosh)

July 6, 2018
3–5 pm, Memorial Union, State Room East – 4th Floor

• “Effects of implementing parity for mental health and substance use disorder in Medicaid,” Marguerite Burns (UW–Madison)
• Liquidity Constraints and Health Insurance Choices, Justin Sydnor (UW–Madison)
• Composite Health Outcomes and Multidimensional Treatment Effects, John Mullahy (UW–Madison)

June 22, 2018 
3–5 pm, Place: Memorial Union, Beefeaters Room – 3rd Floor

• “The Impact of New Service Delivery Models on Work Hours and Quality: Evidence from Primary Care,” Hessam Bavafa (UW–Madison)
• “Estimating the Returns to Wealth in Disability-Free Life Expectancy,” Anita Mukherjee (UW–Madison)
• “The Cyclicality of Informal Care,” Corina Mommaerts (UW–Madison)

May 11, 2018
4–6 pm, Memorial Union, Council Room

• Nurse Deregulation, Yang Wang (UW–Madison)
• Early Life Health and Life Course Earnings, Bobbi Wolfe (UW–Madison)
  Discussion: CDHA and MHEC

December 13, 2018
3–5 pm, Memorial Union, Profile Room

• Living Wage and Health, Mustafa Hussein (UW–Madison)
• Measuring Cognition in the HRS data, Geoffrey Wallace (UW–Madison)

November 16, 2018
3–5 pm, Memorial Union, Capital View Room – 4th Floor

• Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, Bob Batt (UW–Madison)
• Occupation and Cognition, Lindsay Jacobs (UW–Madison)

October 19, 2018
3–5 pm, Memorial Union, Capital View Room – 4th Floor

• Clustering Techniques for Predicting Health Expenditures, Margie Rosenberg (UW–Madison)
• Intergenerational Mobility and Disability Status, Katie Jajtner (UW–Madison)

May 10, 2019
3–5 pm, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery – Room 1260
End of Semester Event
Discussion with Trevor Sawalish (Children’s Minnesota) about potential collaborations and data availability
4 pm, Reception at Steenbocks on Orchard

May 3, 2019
3–5 pm, Memorial Union, Council Room – 4th Floor

• “Intergenerational Health Mobility,” Katie Jajtner (UW–Madison)
• “Application of a Longitudinal Matching Algorithm to Clinical Trial Data,” Cornelia Ilin (UW–Madison)

March 29, 2019
3–5 pm, Memorial Union Room, Class of 1924 Room – 4th Floor

• “Differential Responses to the Minimum Legal Drinking Age Law,” Jason Fletcher (UW–Madison)
• “Medicaid Expansions in Wisconsin,” Gwyn Pauley (UW–Madison)

November 15, 2019
3–5 pm, Memorial Union, Profile Room – 2nd Floor
“Government Advertising in Market-Based Public Programs: Evidence from the Health Insurance Marketplace,”  Naoki Aizawa (UW–Madison)
“Multidimensional Health Measurement and Analysis,” John Mullahy (UW–Madison)

October 11, 2019
3–5 pm, Memorial Union, Old Madison

• OptumLabs discussion with Joe Henk
• New UW–Madison Faculty Showcase: Lauren Schmitz, Rebecca Myerson, and Mariétou Ouayogodé

September 12, 2019
3–4:30 pm, Memorial Union, Beefeaters
“Local Access to Mental Healthcare and Crime,” Monica Deza (Hunter College, CUNY), CDHA Visiting Scholar

February 28, 2020
3–5 pm, Memorial Union, Founder’s Room – 2^nd Floor

• “Disparities in Cancer,” Rebecca Myerson (UW–Madison)
• “Place of Birth and Old Age Mortality,” Jason Fletcher (UW–Madison)

February 14, 2020
3–5 pm, Memorial Union, Room: Old Madison Room – 3^rd Floor East

• “Work Place Health Promotion RCT,” Marianne Simonsen (Aarhus University)
• “Medicaid Dental Benefit Expansion in Wisconsin,” Gwyn Pauley (UW–Madison)

February 7, 2020
3–5 pm, Memorial Union, Room Old Madison – 3^rd Floor East
“Cognitive Decline and Healthcare Utilization among Older Americans: Evidence from the HRS-Medicare Linked Data,” Xi Chen (Yale University)

October 21, 2020
2:30–4 pm, Virtual Meeting
“Discovering Treatment Effectiveness via Median Treatment Effects—Applications to COVID-19 Clinical Trials,” John Mullahy (UW–Madison)

October 7, 2020
2:30–4 pm, Virtual Meeting
“What Can Economics Say About Alzheimer’s Disease?” Corina Mommaerts (UW–Madison) (Video)

September 17–18, 2020
11^th Annual Midwest Health Economics Conference (MHEC) (Virtual) (Video Playlist)

September 9, 2020
2:30–4 pm, Virtual Meeting
Updates and introductions from new UW–Madison group members: Christine Durrance, Jessica Cao, and Priya Mukherjee

January 27, 2021

• “Churn in Medicaid for Wisconsin,” Gwyn Pauley
• “Heat and Violent Behavior Among Prisoners in Mississippi,” Anita Mukherjee (Video, Restricted, UW only)

April 21, 2021

• “Social Security Disability Insurance and Intergenerational Economic Mobility,” Katie Jajtner (Video, Restricted, UW only)

April 28, 2021

• “Opioids and Employment: A Dynamic Approach” and “Does Distributing SNAP Benefits Later in the Month Smooth Expenditures?” Anita Mukherjee

On Wednesday, September 29, the UW Health Economics Research Group hosted a workshop exploring research on the opioid epidemic with presentations by Adibah Abdulhadi (PhD student, economics), Christine Durrance (associate professor, La Follette School of Public Affairs), Ross Milton (assistant professor, La Follette School of Public Affairs), Anita Mukherjee (assistant professor, Wisconsin School of Business), Hans Georg Schwarz (PhD student, economics), and Hannes Schwandt (assistant professor, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern).

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April 11, 2022

• “Early-Life Economic Conditions and Old-Age Mortality” and “Social Insurance Programs and Later-Life Mortality: Evidence from New Deal Relief Spending,” Hamid Noghanibehambari
• “Which Confidence Interval?” John Mullahy

April 14, 2022

• Special Event: Hilldale Lecture Series and Offner Lecture, “The Great Divide: Education, Despair & Death,” Anne Case (Video)

September 23rd, 2022

• “Childhood Policies and Adult Disability,” Katie Jajtner (UW-Madison)
• “Does Expanding Medicaid Managed Long-Term Care Improve Quality? Evidence from Wisconsin,” Corina Mommaerts (UW-Madison)
• “NAFTA and Birth Outcomes,” Hamid Noghanibehambari (UW-Madison)
• “Fertility and Older Age Outcomes,” Shubha Basu (UW-Madison)
• “Effects of State Pregnancy Accommodations,” Jessica Pac & Alejandra Ros Pilarz (UW-Madison)

December 16th, 2022

• “Outreach and Medicaid Enrollment: Experimental Evidence from Wisconsin’s Navigator Program,” Rebecca Myerson (UW-Madison)
• “The Effect of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Uptake on CPS Involvement of Children,” Christine Durrance (UW-Madison)
• “Are Hospital Acquisitions of Physician Practices Anticompetitive?” Ashley Swanson (UW-Madison)
• “The Effects of Tobacco 21 Policies on Smoking and Vaping – Evidence from Panel Data and Biomarkers,” Chad Cotti (UW-Oshkosh)
• “Direct and Indirect Effects of Vaccines,” Dan Sacks (UW-Madison)