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Date and time: 16:30 - 18:00, September 15 (Thu.), 2011
Place: NIPSSR on the 6th floor of Hibiya Kokusai Building at
Uchisaiwai-cho Meeting Room No.4 (TEL 03-5253-1111 ext.4484)
Lecturer: Michael Grossman (Distinguished Professor of Economics, City University of New York Graduate Center; Research Associate and Program Director of Health Economics Research, National Bureau of Economic Research, Past President of the American Society of Health Economists)
Title:"The Relationship between Health and Schooling"
Michael Grossman (Ph.D., Columbia University, 1970) is Distinguished Professor of Economics, City University of New York Graduate Center; Research Associate and Program Director of Health Economics Research, National Bureau of Economic Research. He was the inaugural recipient of the Victor R. Fuchs Award for lifetime contributions to the field of health economics, presented by the American Society of Health Economists in 2008. He is a co-editor of the Review of Economics of the Household, a series co-editor of Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, published by JAI Press, an imprint of Emerald Group Publishing Limited, an associate editor of the Journal of Health Economics, an associate editor of the Journal of Human Capital, a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, a past president of the Eastern Economic Association and the American Society of Health Economists. He has published a monograph, over sixty journal articles, over thirty book chapters, and has co-edited three books. His research has focused on economic models of the determinants of health, the economics of substance use and abuse, and the determinants of interest rates on tax-exempt hospital bonds. His recently completed studies deal with the effects of excise taxes on cigarette smoking by pregnant women, the relationship between substance use and risky sexual behavior by teenagers, the economics of obesity, and the effects of managed care on hospital prices for bypass surgery and for angioplasty. Lately, he is working on new projects addressing the effects of food prices and food advertising on body composition of children, moral hazard in less invasive surgical technology for coronary artery disease, and the impacts of insurance, outcomes, and severity on pricing of major cancer surgery.
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The lecture and the discussion will be given in English only (No interpretation). If you wish to attend, please register either by e-mail or fax.
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