Second Annual Conference on Behavioral Health Economics
Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) will be hosting its second annual Conference on Behavioral Health Economics, to be held Oct. 16, 2015 in Berkeley. The conference will cover various topics related to the causes and understanding of health behaviors and decision-making. The event is jointly organized with the Berkeley Population Center, Initiative for Behavioral Economics and Finance, the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging, and the Institute for International Studies.
Agenda
8:30 – 8:55 Breakfast and Registration
8:55 – 10:30 Session 1: Incentives
Session Chair: Paul Gertler, UC Berkeley
Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University — “Bolstering Demand for Sanitation in Bangladesh”
Charles Sprenger, UC San Diego — “Using Preference Estimates to Customize Incentives: An Application to Polio Vaccination Drives in Pakistan”
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:30 Session 2: Behavioral Health
Session Chair: Dana Carney, UC Berkeley
Oliver John, UC Berkeley — “Personality, Psychology, and Health”
Frank Schilbach, MIT — “Alcohol and Self-Control: A Field Experiment in India”
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 3:00 Session 3: Big Data
Session Chair: Aprajit Mahajan, UC Berkeley
Maya Petersen, UC Berkeley — “The Value of Machine Learning in Public Health Evaluations”
Jonathan Kolstad, UC Berkeley — “Big Data and Health Insurance Product Selection”
3:00 – 3:30 Break
3:30 – 5:00 Session 4: Nice Unrelated Papers
Session Chair: Ben Handel, UC Berkeley
Harsha Thirumurthy, UNC Chapel Hill — “The effects of providing fixed compensation and lottery-based rewards on uptake of medical male circumcision in Kenya: a randomized trial”
Berber Kramer, IFPRI — “From awareness to adverse selection: Intra-household allocations of health insurance in Nigeria”
5:00 – 6:00 Reception
