Notre Dame will be hosting the 2025 Midwest Health Economics Conference Thursday, September 4 and Friday, September 5.
Below is the tentative program.
Contact Bill Evans for information
Thursday, September 4
Presentations are in McKenna Hall on Notre Dame's campus; rooms 205/206/207
- 10:00am “Government Monitoring of Health Care Quality: Evidence from thecNursing Home Sector.” Yiqun Chen, University of Illinois at Chicago, Marcus Dillender, Vanderbilt University
- 11:00am “Early Intervention for Chronic Pain: Reducing Surgeries and Healthcare Costs.” Christopher Chen, Indiana University, Buyun Li, Indiana University, Mohammad Zhalechian, Indiana University
- 1:15pm “Can Redrawing Boundaries Save Lives Evidence from a Reform of the Kidney Allocation System.” Hannah Bae, Michigan State University
- 2:15pm “The Roles of Physician Racial Bias and Allocative Inequality in Healthcare Disparities.” Anjelica Gangaram, Harvard University, Katherine Li, Harvard University, Jeffrey Scott McCullough, University of Michigan
- “Race-Specific Provider Performance: Evidence from Black Lives Matter Protests.” Haizhen Lin, Indiana University, Yanhao Wang, University of Alberta, Jia Xiang, Indiana University
- 3:45pm “In-Kind Benefits and Behavioral Demand.” Christian Cox, University ofArizona, Katherine Harris-Lagoudakis, Iowa State University
- 4:45pm “Paternalistic Social Assistance: Evidence and Implications from Cash vs. In-Kind Transfers.” Anna Chorniy, Ichan School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, Matt Notowidigo, University of Chicago, Amy Finkelstein, MIT
Friday, September 5
- 8:30am “Illegal Drug Use and Government Policy: Evidence from a Darknet Marketplace.” Priyanka Goonetilleke, Northwestern University, Anastasia Karpova, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Artem Kuriksha, Uber Technologies, Peter Meylakhs, HSE University
- 9:30am “The Welfare Effects of Intermediation in the Employer-Sponsored Insurance Market.” Anran Li, Cornell & University of Minnesota, Tong Liu, MIT, Anthony LoSasso, DePaul University, Nicholas Tilipman, Johns Hopkins University
- 11:00am “Local Prosecutors and Public Health.” Panka Bencsik, Vanderbilt University, Tyler Giles, Wellesley College
Originally published at economics.nd.edu.