Virtual Seminar on the Economics of Risky Health Behaviors (VERB)
Seminar Organizers
Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir, University of Iceland, Iceland
Ana Inés Balsa, Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay
John Cawley, Cornell University, USA
Hans van Kippersluis, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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The VERB seminar takes place Mondays at 3:30 p.m. Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
Our goal is to encourage participation by researchers worldwide. One challenge to that is that different parts of the world vary in their use of daylight savings time. The solution to this is to set the time of the seminar using Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). To determine your local time on a given date, you can use an online calculator such as this: https://time.is/compare/UTC.
Fall 2022 Schedule
Date |
Presenter |
Title |
Institution |
Paper Title |
2022-09-05 |
Janet Currie |
Professor |
Princeton University |
Rules vs. Discretion: The Treatment of Mental Health in U.S. Adolescents View Prof. Currie’s recording here |
2022-09-19 |
Rachel Griffith |
Professor |
IFS/Manchester University |
Obesity, poverty and public policy View Prof. Griffith’s recording here |
2022-10-03 |
Damian Clarke |
Associate Professor |
University of Chile |
Schools as Safety-nets: Break-downs and Recovery in Reporting of Violence against Children |
2022-10-17 |
Lauren Schmitz |
Assistant professor |
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Genome-wide summary measures of genetic risk reveal treatment effect heterogeneity in a randomized control trial of smoking cessation |
2022-10-31 |
Osea Giuntella |
Assistant professor |
University of Pittsburgh |
Sleep: Habit Formation and Educational Impact |
2022-11-14 |
Léontine Goldzahl |
Associate professor |
Edhec Business School |
Do financial incentives for smoking cessation during pregnancy reduce social inequalities in health at birth? |
2022-11-28 |
Rong Hai |
Assistant professor |
University of Miami |
The Causal Effects of Youth Cigarette Addiction and Education |
2022-12-12 |
Michael Grossman |
Professor |
CUNY, NBER |
A Career as a Health Economist / Fifty-Six Years at the NBER and Still Hanging in There / The Demand for Health Turns Fifty: Reflections View Prof. Grossman’s recording here |
Advisory Board
- 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: