The Electronic Health Economics Colloquium (EHEC) is a bi-weekly online health economics seminar series. The goals of EHEC are to share high-quality, new health economics research on a platform that is freely available; maintain and improve communication among health economists during a time of social distancing; and to promote equity in health economics research.
Upcoming Webinars
“Medical Bill Shock and Imperfect Moral Hazard”
Presented by: Alex Hoagland
Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 2:00 PM EDT
Past Webinars
“The Role of Information in Pharmaceutical Advertising: Theory and Evidence”
Presented by: Kelli Marquardt
Date: 4/10/2024 at 2:30 PM EDT
“Supplier Enforcement and the Opioid Crisis”
Presented by: J. Travis Donahoe
Date: 3/20/2024 at 2:30 PM EDT
“SNAP Eligible Products and Behavioral Demand”
Presented by Katherine Harris-Lagoudakis
Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 at 2:30 PM EDT
“The Power of Public Insurance With Limited Benefits: Evidence from China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme”
Presented by Emma Zai
Moderator: Shooshan Danagoulian
Date: 5/17/2023 at 2:30 PM EST
“Health Care Spending Growth Has Slowed: Will the Bend in the Curve Continue?”
Presented by Joe Newhouse
Moderator: David Bradford
Date: 4/19/2023 at 2:30 PM EST
“Information Shocks and Health Behaviors: Evidence from Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations”
Presented by Brandyn Churchill
Moderator: Ezra Golberstein
Date: 3/15/2023 at 2:30 PM EST
“Provider Opioid Prescribing Behaviors and Opioid Use in Medicaid”
Presented by Becky Staiger
Moderator: Sayeh Nikpay
Date: 2/22/2023 at 2:30 PM EST
Presented by Catherine Maclean
Moderator: Shooshan Danagoulian
Date: 12/7/2022
Date: 11/16/2022
Presenter: David Cutler
Moderator: Ezra Golberstein
Date: 10/12/2022
Presenter: Nathaniel Breg
“Medical Technologies with Comparative Advantages on Different Dimensions: Evidence from Hysterectomy”
Date: 9/14/2022
Presenter: Sarah Miller
“The Long-Term Effects of Income for At-Risk Infants: Evidence from Supplemental Security Income”
| Date: 7/20/2022 at 2:30 PM EDT Presenter: Jonathan Roth “The Effects of Physicians’ Financial Transfers from Drug Firms on Prescribing of Physician-Administered Cancer Drugs” |
| Date: 5/18/2022 at 2:30 PM EDT Presenter: Jing Li “The Effects of Physicians’ Financial Transfers from Drug Firms on Prescribing of Physician-Administered Cancer Drugs” |
Date: 4/20/2022
Presenter: Jonathan Zhang
“The Impact of Disability Income on Health and Economic Well-Being: Evidence from the VA’s Disability Compensation Program”
| Date: 3/16/2022 at 2:30 PM EDT Presenter: Rebecca Myerson “Information Gaps and Health Insurance Enrollment: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act Navigator Programs” |
| Date: 2/16/2022 at 2:30 PM EDT Presenter: Giuseppe Moscelli “The impact of the 2016 Junior Doctor Contract on the retention of trainee doctors within the English NHS” |
| Date: 1/19/2022 at 2:30 PM EDT Presenter: John Cawley “Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages: Impacts on Prices, Purchases, and Consumption” |
| Date: 12/22/2021 at 2:30 PM EDT Presenter: Christopher Whaley “Who Pays for Health Care Costs? The Effects of Health Care Prices on Wages” |
| Date: 12/1/2021 at 2:30 PM EDT Presenter: Conor Lennon “Employer Sponsored Health Insurance and Labor Market Outcomes for Gay Men: Evidence from the Advent of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis” |
Date: 11/10/2021
Presenter: Marit Hinnosaar
“Malleability of Alcohol Consumption: Evidence from Migrants”
| Date: 10/20/2021 at 2:30 PM EDT Presenter: Carolina Arteaga “The Opioid Epidemic: Causes and Consequences” |
Date: 9/29/2021
Presenter: Rena Conti
“The Economics of Drug Price Reform”
Date: 9/15/2021
Presenter: Daniel Guth, Mayra Pineda-Torres
“Graduate Student Presentations”
| Date: 8/11/2021 at 2:30 PM EDT Presenter: Maggie Shi, Ernest Dorilas “Graduate Student Presentations” |
| Date: 7/14/2021 Presenter: Alex Hollingsworth, Kelli Marquardt, Grant McDermott “Getting Started with R” |
| Date: 6/16/2021 Presenter: Pedro Sant’Anna and Andrew Goodman-Bacon “New Developments in Difference-in-differences Estimators” |
| Date: 5/19/2021 Presenter: Kate Bundorf “How do Humans Interact with Algorithms? Experimental Evidence from Health Insurance” |
| Date: 5/5/2021 Presenter: Adrienne Sabety “The Value of Relationships in Health Care” |
| Date: 4/21/2021 Presenter: Rebecca Sachs “Safety Net Cutbacks and Hospital Service Provision: Evidence from Psychiatric Care” |
| Date: 4/7/2021 Presenter: Sherry Glied “The Impact of Price (Charge) Transparency in Outpatient Provider Markets” |
| Date: 3/24/2021 Presenter: Michael Richards “Raising the Stakes: Physician Facility Investments and Provider Agency” |
| Date: 3/10/2021 Presenter: Atul Gupta “Does Private Equity Investment in Healthcare Benefit Patients? Evidence from Nursing Homes” |
| Date: 2/24/2021 Presenter: Trevon Logan “Physician Bias and Racial Disparities in Health: Evidence from Veterans’ Pensions” |
| Date: 2/10/2021 Presenter: Tamar Oostrom “Funding of Clinical Trials and Reported Drug Efficacy” |
| Date: 1/27/2021 Presenter: Nicolas Ziebarth “The Long-Run Effects of Sports Club Vouchers for Primary School Children” |
| Date: 1/13/2021 Presenter: Anupam Bapu Jena “Natural Experiments in Health Care” |
Date: 12/16/2020
Presenter: Lina Song
“The Impact of Vertical Integration on Physician Behavior and Healthcare Delivery: Evidence from Gastroenterology Practices”
| Date: 12/2/2020 Presenter: Sarah S. Stith “Does Increasing Access-to-Care Delay Accessing of Care? Evidence from Kidney Transplantation” |
| Date: 11/18/2020 Presenter: Nicholas Tilipman “Disagreement Payoffs and Negotiated Prices: Evidence from Out-of-Network Hospital Payments” |
| Date: 11/4/2020 Presenter: Hannes Ullrich “Machine predictions and human decisions with variation in payoffs and skill” |
| Date: 10/21/2020 Presenter: Viviane Sanfelice “Mosquito-Borne Disease and Newborn Health” |
| Date: 10/7/2020 Presenter: Chenyuan Liu “Sorting on Plan Design: Theory and Evidence from the ACA” |
| Date: 9/23/2020 Presenter: Atheendar Venkataramani “Maternal Mortality and Women’s Political Participation” |
| Date: 9/9/2020 Presenter: Tobias Klein “The Response to Dynamic Incentives in Insurance Contracts with a Deductible: Evidence from a Differences-in-Regression-Discontinuities Design” |
| Date: 8/26/2020 Presenter: Adelina Wang (National Bureau of Economic Research) “The Impact of Alternative Types of Post-Acute Medical Care: Stratified IV Analysis with Machine Learning Using Nursing Home Exits” |
| Date: 8/12/2020 Presenter: Ashvin Gandhi (University of California, Los Angeles) “Picking Your Patients: Selective Admissions in the Nursing Home Industry” |
Date: 7/29/2020
Presenter: Caitlin Carroll
“Physician Response to Malpractice Allegations: Evidence from Florida Emergency Departments”
| Date: 7/15/2020 Presenter: Alex Hollingsworth “Tactics for design and inference in synthetic control studies: An applied example using high-dimensional data” |
| Date: 7/1/2020 Presenter: Osea Giuntella “Why Don’t We Sleep Enough? A Field Experiment Among College Students” |
| Date: 6/24/2020 Presenter: SafeGraph, PlaceIQ, UberMedia “Cellular Device Location Data: What, Where, and How?” |
| Date: 6/17/2020 Presenter: Maya Rossin-Slater “Family Spillover Effects of Misdiagnosis: The Case of ADHD” |
| Date: 6/3/2020 Presenter: Amy Finkelstein “Voluntary Regulation: Evidence from Medicare Payment Reform” |
Date: 5/20/2020
Presenter: Amitabh Chandra
“Choosing Unwisely: Behavioral Hazard and Patient Decision Making”
| Date: 5/6/2020 Presenter: Jonathan Gruber “Managing Intelligence: Skilled Experts and AI in Markets for Complex Products” |
| Date: 4/22/2020 Presenter: Kosali Simon “Tracking Public and Private Responses to the COVID-19 Epidemic” |
EHEC is co-organized by:
Willa Friedman 
@willafriedman
Orgul Ozturk @orgul_ozturk
David Bradford @bradfowd1
Jason Mose
EHEC is also supported by an organizing committee of:
Heidi Allen
David Anderson
Erkmen Aslim
David Bradford
Willa Friedman
Christian Kronborg
Catherine Maclean
Keith Marzilli
Sarah Miller
Jason Mose
Orgul Ozturk
Adam Sacarny
Bradley Shapiro
Kosali Simon
Sebastian Tello-Trillo
Laura Wherry