Monday, Sept. 19
300 Wallace Hall
4:30pm

Dan Kessler
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Research Associate NBER
"Tradeoffs in Markets with Referrals"

Monday, Sept. 26
300 Wallace Hall
4:30pm

Elizabeth M. Armstrong
Department of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
"Whose Deaths Matter? Mortality, Advocacy and Attention to Disease in the Mass Media"

Monday, Oct. 10
300 Wallace Hall
4:30pm

Amy Finkelstein
Department of Economics, MIT; Faculty Research Fellow, NBER
"The Aggregate Effects of Health Insurance: Evidence from the Introduction of Medicare"

Monday, Oct. 24
300 Wallace Hall
4:30pm

Doug Almond
Department of Economics and International & Public Affairs, Columbia University
"The Long-Run and Intergenerational Impact of Poor Infant Health: Evidence from Cohorts Born During the Civil Rights Era" Co-sponsored with Office of Population Research

Monday, Nov. 7
300 Wallace Hall
4:30pm

Ezekiel Emanuel
Chair, Department of Clinical Bioethics, Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health
"Thinking about Health Care Reform in the United States"

*Tuesday, Nov. 15
300 Wallace Hall
*12:00pm

Lisa Berkman
Harvard School of Public Health
"The Health Effects of Work/Family Conflict: From Observation to Policy"
Co-sponsored with Office of Population Research

*Wednesday,
Nov. 16
300 Wallace Hall
*12:15pm

Jishnu Das
Research Economist DECRG, World Bank
"Money for Nothing: The Dire Straits of Medical Practice in Delhi, India"
Co-sponsored with Research Program in Development Studies (RPDS)

Monday, Nov. 21
*200 Fisher Hall
4:30pm

Doug Staiger
Department of Economics, Dartmouth College; Research Associate, NBER
"Testing a Roy Model with Productivity Spillovers: Evidence from the Treatment of Heart Attacks"
Co-sponsored with Industrial Relations Section

Monday, Nov. 28
300 Wallace Hall
4:30pm

David Fisman
Visiting Research Scholar, Princeton University/Department of Epidemiology & Medicine, Drexel University School of Public Health and College of Medicine
"The Economics of STD Control: Why Transmissibility Matters"

Lectures and seminars from previous semesters:

Spring, 2001

Fall, 2001

Spring, 2002

Fall, 2002

Spring, 2003

Fall, 2003

Spring, 2004

Fall, 2004