Announcement
RAND researchers will be featured in 40 roles at the Conference of American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon), as session chairs, presenters, authors or discussants, June 10-13 in Minneapolis. View our guide to RAND research at ASHEcon 2012 via the link below.
Announcement
The Bing Center is proud to announce the winners of the Health Economics Investment Award, an internal competition to support RAND researchers in developing projects and promoting publications in health economics. The awards committee selected four proposals out of 15 submissions by Bing affiliates. The winners are
Abby Alpert,
Sebastian Bauhoff,
Edward Okeke and (as a team) Abby Alpert,
Fabian Duarte and
Mireille Jacobson.
Announcement
Jonathan Kolstad, Assistant Professor of Health Care Management at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, presents on the labor market impact of the three key provisions of the recent Massachusetts and national mandate-based health reforms: individual and employer mandates and expansions in publicly-subsidized coverage.
Announcement
Food Deserts and Obesity
— Apr 23, 2012
Roland Sturm's work analyzing the food environment in California and across the U.S. has been cited in a recent article in the
New York Times, which focuses on the effects of "food deserts" in poorer neighborhoods.
Announcement
Bing Affiliates Presenting at Southern California Conference in Applied Microeconomics April 13
— Apr 9, 2012
Three Bing affiliates will be actively participating in the Southern California Conference in Applied Microeconomics at Claremont McKenna College on April 13. Mireille Jacobson will be chairing the session on Health, Paul Heaton will serve as discussant and Abby Alpert will present her work on “The Anticipatory Effects of Medicare Part D on Drug Utilization”.
Announcement
On Wed., April 11 from 10-11:30 PST, Grant Miller speaks on work to reduce the incidence of anemia in rural China.
Announcement
On Mon., April 16 from 2-3:30 PST, Bobbi Wolfe presents an examination of the prevalence and consequences of experiencing a sibling death during one's childhood, focusing on the previously unexamined consequences of child mortality and the correlated societal costs.
Announcement
On Wed., March 28 from 10:30am-12:00pm PST, Ted Joyce presents an analysis of the impact that legalized abortion in New York State had on the abortion and birth rates of non-residents from 1971-1975.
Announcement
Douglas Almond, visiting scholar from Columbia University, presents a lecture focused on research into sex ratios across generations of Asian immigrants to Canada on Friday, March 23 at 12pm PST.
Announcement
Lena Edlund presents a seminar focused on sex selection in Chinese adoptions and what these contemporary girl adoptions mean in modern Chinese culture, on Wed. March 14 from 12-1pm PST.
Announcement
Lena Edlund and Douglas Almond are the March 2012 visiting scholars, at RAND's Santa Monica office from March 12 to 22. Both are associate professors at Columbia University's Department of Economics.
Multimedia
New RAND research finds that eliminating the requirement that all Americans have health insurance would sharply lower the number of people gaining coverage, but would not dramatically increase the cost of buying policies through new insurance exchanges. RAND Economist Christine Eibner discusses the ramifications.
Multimedia
The RAND Bing Center for Health Economics, RAND Labor and Population, and the
Journal of Human Capital held a two-day Conference on Health, Aging, and Human Capital. Speakers included RAND's Nicole Maestas, NYU's Michael Grossman, and Harvard's David Wise; all conference videos are available online.
Announcement
Amitabh Chandra, a professor of public policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, was the latest Bing Center Visiting Scholar. Future Visiting Scholars include Doug Almond and Lena Edlund, from Columbia and Cornell; they will be visiting the Bing Center from March 15 to 30, 2012.
Event
Labor issues, healthcare, education, social programs, and other factors affecting economic development in Latin America were the focus of a two-day conference in Santiago, Chile. RAND researchers joined university colleagues, industry experts, government leaders, and policymakers in discussing a range of critical topics.
News Release
Controlling prescription drug prices is one way to lower U.S. health costs, but it comes at a cost for future generations. While imposing European-style prescription drug price regulations in the United States would generate modest cost savings, it would impose a larger burden in the future by stifling medical innovation that can extend lives.
Project
Improving health and the efficiency of health care service delivery are among today's most vexing public policy problems. With the help of a generous donation from former RAND trustee Peter Bing, RAND created the Bing Center for Health Economics to address these issues with innovative, high-profile research.
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