Hopkins Health, Labor Education And Development Economics Conference (H2LED)

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May 10, 2019

The Hopkins Health, Labor, Education, and Development Economics Conference (H2LED) is organized by professors from Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, Carey Business School, and Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.

The aim of the conference is to bring together academic economists from different divisions around Johns Hopkins University, open lines of communication, foster collaboration across schools, and showcase the diverse research projects of Johns Hopkins economists.

Presentations will not only showcase cutting-edge economic research but also highlight the diverse sets of methods and approaches used by economists to answer vital research questions to generate research that might help shape policies regarding education, health, development, and labor.

Presenters

  • Shawn Du, Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • Yujung Hwang, Johns Hopkins University
  • Michael Darden, Carey Business School
  • Daniel Polsky, Carey Business School and Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • Lauren Nicholas, Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • Prerna Rakheja, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
  • Ben Meiselman, Bloomberg School of Public Health

Program

8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Coffee, breakfast, and introduction

9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Paper 1 “Health Plan Choice and the Valuation of Plan Attributes in the ACA
Marketplaces”
Author: Shawn Du
Discussant: Manuel Hermosa

10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Paper 2
“An Estimable General-Equilibrium Structural Model of Immigrants’
Neighborhood Sorting and Social Integration”
Author: Yujung Hwang
Discussant: Angelo Mele

11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. Break

11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Paper 3 “Rational Self-Medication”
Author: Michael Darden
Discussant: Bradley Herring

12:15 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Keynote 
Dan Polsky: Insurance Expansions and Primary Care Access

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Paper 4 “Adverse Financial Events Before and After Dementia Diagnoses”
Author: Lauren Nicholas
Discussant: Erik Helzer

3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Coffee break

3:15 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Paper 5 “Disability Insurance and Labor Supply"
Author: Prerna Rakheja
Discussant: Ben Meiselman

4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Paper 6 “Exposure enhanced goods and technology disadoption: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial with resource-conserving technologies” 
Author: Ben Meiselman
Discussant: Prerna Rakheja

Concluding remarks

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