• Olufunke Alaba, University of Cape Town, South Africa
• Silvia Balia, Università di Cagliari, Italy
• Michele Belot, Cornell University, USA
• Nicole Black, Monash University, Australia
• David Bradford, University of Georgia, USA
• Kitt Carpenter, Vanderbilt University, USA
• Adriana Comacho Gonzalez, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
• Joan Costa-i-Font, London School of Economics, UK
• Michael Darden, Johns Hopkins University
• Dhaval Dave, Bentley University, USA
• Edel Doherty, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
• Davide Dragone, University of Bologna, Italy
• Fabrice Etile, Paris School of Economics, France
• Jason Fletcher, University of Wisconsin, USA
• Michael French, University of Miami, USA
• Martin Gonzalez Rozada, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Argentina
• Euna Han, Yonsei University, South Korea
• Florence Jusot, Paris-Dauphine University, France
• Feng Liu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
• Petter Lundborg, Lund University, Sweden
• Catherine Maclean, Temple University, USA
• Jan Marcus, Universität Hamburg, Germany
• Sara Markowitz, Emory University, USA
• Toni Mora, International University of Catalonia, Spain
• Rosalie Pacula, University of Southern California, USA
• Guillermo Paraje, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile
• Heather Royer, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
• Christopher Ruhm, University of Virginia, USA
• Enrique Seira Bejarano, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico
• Manisha Shah, UCLA, USA
• Jody Sindelar, Yale University, USA
• Erdal Tekin, American University, USA
• Patricia Triunfo, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
• Marjon van der Pol, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
• Jan Van Ours, Erasmus School of Economics, Netherlands
• Kevin Volpp, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Stephanie von Hinke, University of Bristol, UK
• Casey Warman, Dalhousie University, Canada
• Jenny Williams, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Myra Yazbeck, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Nicolas Ziebarth, Cornell University, USA

The VERB: Virtual Seminar on the Economics of Risky Health Behaviors began in September 2020 as an adaptation to the situation faced by our universities during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the past two years, it has allowed researchers worldwide to share their research on the economics of health behaviors, including smoking, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, poor diet, physical inactivity, obesity, risky sex, self-harm, and suicide.  We believe there is still a worldwide demand for virtual seminars featuring cutting-edge research in the field. Our new schedule offers a virtual seminar every other week during the Fall and Spring semesters.

The seminar combines senior speakers with excellent early career scholars who need the feedback on their research and the visibility of seminars. Past senior speakers have been asked to present both individual papers and “keynote lectures” that provide broad overviews of important research areas, which both help educate early-career scholars and help lower the barriers to entry for researchers seeking to enter that area. Recorded keynote talks are available on the VERB website and can be used for teaching purposes.

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This seminar is one of several virtual seminars being offered in health economics. You may also wish to check out:

• The Electronic Health Economics Colloquium
• Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS)