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Harvard-MIT-BU Health Economics Seminar
Spring 2025 Schedule

SUP 951

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Thursdays,
4:00-5:15pm		LocationSpeaker and AffiliationTitle
January 30, 2025BU Questrom - HAR414Pauline Mourot (BU)Should Top Surgeons Practice at Top Hospitals? Sorting and Complementarities in Healthcare
February 6, 2025BU Questrom - HAR414Ben Vatter (MIT)Vertical Integration and Plan Design in Healthcare Markets
February 13, 2025BU Questrom - HAR414Tong Liu (MIT)Driving a Bargain: Negotiation Skill and Price Dispersion
February 27, 2025MIT Sloan - E51-325Jon Kolstad (UC Berkeley)Thinking versus Doing: Cognitive Capacity, Decision Making and Medical Diagnosis
March 6, 2025MIT Sloan - E51-325Liisa Laine (U Missouri)Improving Performance Through Allocation and Competition: Evidence from a Patient Choice Reform 
March 13, 2025MIT Sloan - E51-325Hannes Schwandt (Northwestern)Germs in the Family: The Short- and Long-Term Consequences of Intra-Household Disease Spread
March 27, 2025HCP - TMEC (Tosteson Medical Education Center) 250 Mini AmphitheaterAnais Galdin (Dartmouth)Resilience of Global Supply Chains and Generic Drug Shortages
April 3, 2025HCP - TMEC (Tosteson Medical Education Center) 250 Mini AmphitheaterJoe Doyle (MIT)Mean Reversion in Randomized Controlled Trials: Implications for Program Targeting and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
April 10, 2025HCP - TMEC (Tosteson Medical Education Center) 250 Mini AmphitheaterWoojin Kim (NBER)Political Polarization in Medicine
April 17, 2025HKS - Rubenstein 304Jason Abaluck (Yale)Insurance with Multiple Actors
April 24, 2025HKS - Rubenstein 304Atul Gupta (Wharton)Do Hospital Systems Pass Through Cost Savings from Acquisitions?
May 1, 2025HKS - Rubenstein 304Maria Polyakova (Stanford)Health Insurance as Economic Stimulus? Evidence from Long-Term Care Labor Markets