October 2015 - Applied Health Economics

Healthwise organised a pre-conference symposium on Thursday, 29 October 2015. The symposium covered topics in applied health economics and econometrics, with guest speakers Edward Norton (University of Michigan) and Govert Bijwaard (NIDI). Researchers interested in health economics were cordially invited for this meeting.

Programme

13:00-14:00       Prof. Edward Norton (University of Michigan)
Title: How Does Home Health Agency's Ownership Affect Patient Treatment?

14:00-14:15       Coffee break

14:15-14:45       Raun van Ooijen (RUG)
Title: Health over the life cycle

14:45-15:15       Beatriz Rodríguez-Sánchez (RUG)
Title: Diabetes-associated factors as predictors of nursing home admission and costs in the elderly across Europe

15:15-15:45       dr. Jochem de Bresser (RUG)
Title: Eliciting subjective survival curves: lessons from partial identification

15:45-16:00       Coffee break

16:00-17:00       dr. Govert Bijwaard (NIDI)
Title: Intelligence and the mortality difference by education: Selection or mediation?

17:00-18:00       Drinks