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Ken Chay, PhD - Associate Professor, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley
February 5, 2002
The striking reduction in the black infant mortality rate in Mississippi during the late 1960s, concentrated among causes of death considered preventable by medical treatment (such as diarrhea and pneumonia), suggests a causal role played by the integration of previously segregated hospitals.
Brian Finch, PhD - Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research, UC Berkeley
February 19, 2002
Dr. Finch notes the commonly observed discordance between objective and subjective health statuses within Latino sub-populations. Using survival models, he tests whether self-ratings of health have the same mortality risk among Latinos of various immigrant statuses.
Sean Nicholson, PhD - Assistant Professor, Health Care Systems Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
February 26, 2002
Dr. Nicholson used a unique panel data set to examine how medical students form income expectations, the accuracy of their expectations, the sources of income prediction errors (deviations between expected and actual income), and the effect of income prediction errors on physician behavior. The data set contains direct measures of income expectations for medical students who graduated between 1970 and 1998, their actual income realizations, and changes they have made to their practice.
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Alan Garber, MD, Phd - Henry J. Kaiser, Jr. Professor; and Director, Center for Health Policy, Stanford University
March 12, 2002
Individuals with predictable, persistently elevated medical expenditures pose challenges for any insurance choice scheme with imperfect risk adjustment. Dr. Garber describes a series of studies of expenditures for high-cost Medicare beneficiaries, examining both expenditure persistence and the role of end-of-life care in generating extraordinary Medicare outlays.
Teh-wei Hu, PhD - Professor of Health Economics, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
April 9, 2002
Dr. Hu presents an economic analysis of the demand for public health care service in Hong Kong and policy recommendations for the Hong Kong government for implementations to improve efficiency.
Marta Wosinska, ABD - Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School
April 23, 2002
There is a large public debate whether pharmaceutical manufacturers employ direct-to-consumer advertising because of patients' influence on physician drug choices. Dr. Wosinska sheds light on this debate by determining whether direct-to-consumer advertising affects physicians' prescription choice and whether it undermines the insurers' efforts to make doctors more sensitive to the cost of the prescriptions they write.
Carol Caronna, PhD - Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research, UC Berkeley
May 7, 2002
Dr. Caronna examines which Catholic hospitals in the U.S. provide emergency contraception (the morning after-pill) and if there are significant differences between Catholic hospitals that do and do not provide it. She finds that Catholic hospitals with services that aggressively create, prolong, and save lives (e.g., infertility services, neonatal care) are less likely to provide emergency contraception than ones without these types of services.
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