2019 - BEA Seminar Series Speakers
Robert Townsend
(MIT)
Scott Schuh
(West Virginia)
“Integrated Regional Accounts”
11/13/2019
Molly Schnell
(Northwestern University)
“The Impacts of Physician Payments on Patient Access, Use, and Health”
11/06/2019
Gal Wettstein
(Boston College)
“The Effect of Medicare Part D on Evergreening, Generic Entry, and Drug Prices”
10/30/2019
Bruce Weinberg
(Ohio State University)
“Knowledge Spillovers: Pathways between Research and Innovation”
09/18/2019
Timothy Harris
(Illinois State University)
"Do SNAP Work Requirements Work?"
06/12/2019
Tim Bianco
(Allegheny College)
"The Effect of Unconventional Monetary Policy on Credit Flows"
06/05/2019
Morris Davis
(Rutgers University)
"The Impact of Federal Housing Policy on Housing Demand and Homeownership: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment"
05/22/2019
Stephen Billings
(University of Colorado, Boulder)
"Schools, Neighborhoods, and the Long-Run Effects of Crime-Prone Peers"
05/06/2019
Michael Cala
(Office of National Drug Control Policy)
"Monitoring the Latest Illicit Drug Situation in the United States"
04/11/2019
2018 - BEA Seminar Series Speakers
Joshua Gottlieb
(University of British Columbia)
"The Spillover Effects of Top Income Inequality"
12/06/2018
Lesley Turner
(University of Maryland)
“Framing Effects, Earnings Expectations, and the Design of Student Loan Repayment Schemes”
11/7/2018
Nicholas Papageorge
(Johns Hopkins University)
“Genetic Endowments and Wealth Inequality”
11/1/2018
Desmond Toohey
(University of Delaware)
“Changes in Nutrient Intake at Retirement”
10/17/2018
Danielle Li
(MIT Sloan)
“Developing Novel Drugs”
10/11/2018
Mark Schweitzer
(Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)
“Opioids and the Labor Market”
10/10/2018
Pinka Chatterji
(SUNY-Albany)
“Medical Malpractice Reforms and the Location Decisions of New Physicians”
9/26/2018
Elena Andreyeva
(UPenn Healthcare Management)
“The Effects of Home Health Visit Length on Hospital Readmission”
9/5/2018
Kristin McCue
(Census Bureau)
“Creation and Uses of the Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS)”
6/6/2018
Pietro Tebaldi
(University of Chicago)
“Nonparametric Estimates of the Demand for Health Insurance Among Low-Income Adults”
5/9/2018
Christopher Palmer
(MIT Sloan)
“Gentrification and the Amenity Value of Crime Reductions: Evidence from Rent Deregulation”
5/3/2018
Jim Jansen
(Penn State)
“Insights through Search and Social Media Data”
4/26/2018
Joel Slemrod
(Michigan Ross)
“Taxing Hidden Wealth: The Consequences of U.S. Enforcement Initiatives on Evasive Foreign Accounts”
4/25/2018
Avinash Gannamaneni
(MIT)
“Using Massive Online Choice Experiments to Measure Changes in Well-being”
4/11/2018
Atul Gupta
(Upenn Healthcare Management)
“Impacts of Performance Pay for Hospitals: The Readmissions Reduction Program”
4/5/2018
Benjamin Jones
(Northwestern Kellogg)
“Artificial Intelligence and Economic Growth”
3/26/2018
2017 - BEA Seminar Series Speakers
Martin Hackmann
(UCLA)
“The Returns to Nursing: Evidence from a Parental Leave Program”
11/17/2017
Ithai Lurie
(Department of the Treasury)
“Did the Affordable Care Act Young Adult Provision Affect Labor Market Outcomes? Analysis Using Tax Data”
10/18/2017
Kurt Lavetti
(The Ohio State University)
“The Impacts of Restricting Mobility of Skilled Service Workers: Evidence from Physicians”
10/11/2017
Nicholas Sanders
(Cornell University)
“Adapting to Subtle Environmental Change: Agriculture’s Trouble with Sulfur After the Acid Rain Program”
9/28/2017
Neale Mahoney
(Chicago Booth)
“Provider Incentives and Healthcare Costs: Evidence from Long-Term Care Hospitals”
5/18/2017
Kevin Stange
(Michigan University)
“Labor Supply Effects of Occupational Regulation: Evidence from the Nurse Licensure Compact”
5/3/2017
Berthold Herrendorf
(Arizona State)
“Unbalanced Growth Slowdown”
4/12/2017
Lisa Dettling
(Federal Reserve Board)
“Minimum Wages and Consumer Credit: Impacts on Access to Credit and Traditional and High-Cost Borrowing”
4/5/2017
Pat Higgins
(Atlanta Federal Reserve)
“Introduction to GDP Nowcast”
3/22/2017
Robert Moffitt
(Johns Hopkins University)
“Welfare Rules, Incentives, and Family Structure"
2/22/2017
Adriana Kugler
(Georgetown Public Policy)
“Beyond Job Lock: Impacts of Public Helath Insurance on Occupational and Industrial Mobility”
2/15/2017
Irina Panovska
(Lehigh University)
"Is Business Cycle Asymmetry Intrinsic in Industrialized Economies?"
1/12/2017
2016 - BEA Seminar Series Speakers
Daniel Shoag
(Harvard Kennedy School)
“No Woman No Crime. Ban the Box, Employment, and Upskilling”
9/28/2016
Ankur Pandya
(Harvard School of Public Health)
“Modeling Cardiovascular Disease Progression, Costs, and Quality-Adjusted Life Expectancy”
9/22/2016
John Romley
(RAND, University of Southern California)
“U.S. Hospitals Productivity Growth ”
9/8/2016
Andrew Chang
(Federal Reserve Board)
“Measurement Error in Macroeconomic Data and Economics Research: Data Revisions, Gross Domenstic Product, and Gross Domestic Income ”
8/4/2016
Jing Guo
(American Institutes for Research)
“What is the Marginal Benefit of Payment-Induced Family Care?”
7/14/2016
Kevin Fox
(UNSW Australia)
“Decomposing Value Added Growth over Sectors into Explanatory Factors ”
7/13/2016
Randall Reback
(Barnard College)
“Does Access to Health Care Affect Teen Birth Rates and School Dropout Rates? Evidence from School-based Health Centers ”
6/27/2016
Robert Kaestner
(University of Illinois-Chicago)
“Effects of ACA Medicaid Expansions on Health Insurance Coverage and Labor Supply”
4/14/2016
Maria Marta Ferryra
(World Bank)
“Charter School Entry and School Choice: The Case of Washington, D.C.”
3/1/2016
Eduardo Morales
(Princeton University)
“What do Exporters Know?”
1/20/2016
2015 - BEA Seminar Series Speakers
Ellen McGrattan
(University of Minnesota)
“On Financing Retirement with an Aging Population ”
12/17/2015
Tal Gross
(Columbia University)
“Hospitals Insurers of Last Resort ”
11/12/2015
Richard Hornbeck
(University of Chicago)
“Who Benefits from Productivity Growth? The Local and Aggregate Impacts of Local TFP Shocks on Wages, Rents, and Inequality ”
11/5/2015
Mark Shepard
(Harvard)
“Hospital Network Competition and Adverse Selection: Evidence from the Massachusetts Health Insurance Exchange”
10/21/2015
Missaka Warusawitharana
(Federal Reserve Bank)
“Profitability and the Lifecycle of Firms”
10/13/2015
David Weinstein
(Columbia University)
“Bar-Code Data and the Measurement of Real Output”
10/6/2015
Zack Cooper
(Yale University)
“Why is Health Spending on the Privately Insured in Grand Junction, Colorado so High? Prices, Market Concentration, and Health Spending ”
9/28/2015
Gabriel Zucman
(London School of Economics)
“Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States since 1913”
9/21/2015
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
(National Bureau of Economic Research)
“The Value of Medicaid: Interpreting Results from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment”
9/10/2015
Michael Chrisitan
(University of Wisconsin)
“Measuring Human Capital in the National Accounts”
8/27/2015
Charles Roehrig
(Altarum Institute)
“National Health Expenditures by Medical Condition, 1996-2012”
7/30/2015
Daniel Murphy
(University of Virginia)
“Urban Density and the Substitution of Market Purchases for Home Production”
7/9/2015
JP Morgan Chase Institute Team
(JP Morgan Chase)
“Weathering Volatility: Big Data on the Financial Ups and Downs of US Individuals”
7/7/2015
2014 - BEA Seminar Series Speakers
Matthew Shapiro
(University of Michigan)
“Harnessing Naturally-Occurring Data to Measure Spending and Income”
12/4/2014
Nicolas Ziebarth
(University of Iowa)
“Internal capital markets in the Great Depression”
11/19/2014
Brent Neiman
(University of Chicago)
“Labor Shares and Inequality”
10/8/2014
Matthew Lewis
(Clemson University)
“Hospital Systems and Bargaining Power: Evidence from Out-Of-Market Acquisitions”
9/25/2014
Jonathan Skinner
(Dartmouth College)
“Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending”
9/17/2014
Christopher Ruhm
(University of Virginia)
“Recessions, Healthy No More?”
9/9/2014
Mun Ho
(Harvard University)
“Double Dividend: Environmental Taxes and Fiscal Reform in the United States”
8/4/2014
Matthew Grennan
(Wharton – University of Pennsylvania)
“Regulating Innovation with Uncertain Quality: Information, Access, and Risk in Medical Devices”
7/31/2014
Mark Huggett
(Georgetown University)
“Taxing Top Earners: A Human Capital Perspective”
5/30/2014
Tomas Philipson and Mark Egan
(University of Chicago)
“Adjusting Measures of Economic Output for Health: Is the Business Cycle Countercyclical?”
4/18/2014
Marika Cabral
(UT-Austin)
"Claim Timing and Ex Post Adverse Selection"
4/4/2014
Jeff Clemens
(UC-San Diego)
"The Effect of U.S. Health Insurance Expansions on Medical Innovation"
3/17/2014
Martha Starr
(American University)
“Decomposing growth in healthcare spending: Prices, quantities, diseases, and demographics.”
2/4/2014
2013 - BEA Seminar Series Speakers
Ariell Reshef
(University of Virginia)
"Estimating Network Effects in a Dynamic Environment"
Marc Rysman
(Boston University)
"Estimating Network Effects in a Dynamic Environment"
Robin Lee
(NYU-Stern)
"Insurer Competition and Negotiated Hospital Prices"
F.X. Diebold
(University of Pennsylvania)
"Improving GDP Measurement: A Measurement Error Perspective"
Chad Syverson
(University of Chicago)
"Healthcare Exceptionalism? Productivity and Allocation in the U.S. Healthcare Sector"
Maxim Pinkovskiy
(MIT)
"The Impact of Managed Care Backlash on Health Care Costs"
Heidi Williams
(MIT)
"Do Fixed Patent Terms Distort Innovation? Evidence from Cancer Clinical Trials"
Leemore Dafny
(Federal Trade Commission)
"Healthcare and Antitrust"
Iain Cockburn and Ernst Berndt
(Boston University/MIT)
"Price Indexes for Clinical Trial Research: A Feasibility Study"
Jessie Handbury
(Wharton)
"Are Poor Cities Cheap for Everyone? Non-Homotheticity and the Cost of Living Across U.S. Cities"
Andrew Sweeting
(Duke)
"The Potential Entry Defense in Airline Mergers"
Mathew White
(Johns Hopkins University)
"An Ounce of Prevention at Half Price: Evaluating a Subsidy on Health Investments"
Martin Gaynor
(Carnegie Mellon)
"Free to Choose? Reform and Demand Response in the English National Health Service," with Carol Propper and Stephan Seiler
2011 - BEA Seminar Series Speakers
Michael Chernew
(Harvard University)
"Geographic variation in spending for the privately insured"
Bob Town
(University of Pennsylvania)
"The Impact of the Adoption of Health IT on Patient Outcomes"
Uli Doraszelski
(Wharton)
"Efficiency or Predation: What Drives Pricing When There Is Learning-by-Doing?"
Sean Nicholson
(Cornell University)
"A Quality-Adjusted Price Index for Colorectal Cancer Drugs"
Luis Cabral
(NYU)
"Good Turnover and Bad Turnover: Entry Barriers, Survival Barriers, and Welfare"
Jay Breit
(Colorado State University)
"Incorporating Auxiliary Information Into Complex Survey Estimators Through Modern Regression Methods"
