UIC Seminar in Health Economics and Health Policy

Sponsored by the College of Business Administration, College of Medicine,

and Institute of Government and Public Affairs

Fall 2007 Schedule

Seminar meets at Noon (12 pm) in Room 2150, University Hall (UH)

Fall 2007	Speaker / Topic
September 5	Robert Kaestner, UIC Effects of Obesity on Children's Educational Achievement
September 12	Fabian Lange, Yale University and University of Chicago Education and Allocative Efficiency: Evidence from Breast Cancer Screening
September 19	Damien de Walque, World Bank Education, Information, and Smoking Decisions: Evidence from Smoking Histories, 1940-2000
September 26	Saul Weiner, UIC Beyond Auditing Charts: Using Undercover Standardized Patients to Assess the Quality of Physician Performance
October 3	Thomas Deliere, University of Wisconsin-Madison Roy Model Sorting and the Value of a Statistical Life
October 10	M. Kate Bundorf, Stanford University Mandated Health Insurance Benefits and the Treatment and Outcomes of Infertility
October 17	Xin Xu, UIC Effects of Macroeconomic Activity on Health
October 24	Josh Graff-Ziven, Columbia University AIDS Treatment and Intrahousehold Resource Allocations: Children's Nutrition and Schooling in Kenya
October 31	Zhenxiang Zhou, UIC Urban Sprawl and Obesity
November 7	Edward Norton, University of North Carolina Genetic Information, Obesity, and Labor Market Outcomes
November 14	Tom Buchmueller, University of Michigan The Effect of an Employer Health Insurance Mandate on Health Insurance Coverage and the Demand for Labor: Generalizing from Hawaii's Experience
November 21	Nantaporn Plurphanswat, UIC Peer Effects on Risky Behaviors of Youth
November 28	Rich Lindrooth, Medical University of South Carolina The Effect of Entry of Specialty Hospitals and Units on Treatment Intensity:  The Case of Cardiac Care
December 5	Tony Lo Sasso, UIC Consumer Driven Health Insurance, Use of Services, and Health