Spring 2009 Schedule:

Location: Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, 9 Bow Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge.

Time: 4:30 - 6:00 PM  

Click here for complete details on the following sessions.

February 2, 2009
"Health Insurance in Nicaragua: A Randomized Evaluation of Enrollment and Effects of Insurance" presented by Rebecca Thornton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Michigan

February 23, 2009
"Financial Liquidity and Saving: Evidence from 401(k) Loans" presented by Brigitte Madrian, Ph.D, Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

March 30, 2009
"Voluntary Compliance, Pollution Levels, and Infant Mortality in Mexico" presented by Andrew Foster, Ph.D., Professor of Economics and Community Health, Brown University

April 13, 2009
"Are There Contextual Effects on Cancer Course in the Elderly?" presented by Elizabeth Lamont, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School

April 27, 2009
"The Size of Health Selection Effects" presented by Alberto Palloni, Ph.D., Board of Trustees Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University.

May 11, 2009
"Legislative Seniority and its Generalization" presented by Kenneth Shepsle, Ph.D., George D. Markham Professor of Government, Harvard

For more information, contact Kay Fabella at kfabella@hsph.harvard.edu