University of Alberta
June 6th-June 7th, 2012
Edmonton, Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
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Local Organizing Committee
Logan McLeod, University of Alberta Jane Ruseski, University of Alberta |
Series Organizing Committee
Audrey Laporte, University of Toronto, Chair Emma Pierard, University of Waterloo co-Chair Chris Auld, University of Victoria Paul Grootendorst, University of Toronto Pierre-Thomas Leger, HEC Montreal Logan McLeod, University of Alberta |
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Keynote Speaker
Joseph V. Terza Professor Terza’s primary area of research is the development and application of econometric methods for health policy analysis, health economics and health services research in nonlinear regression contexts involving endogeneity. His paper on two-stage residual inclusion has been extremely influential. In fact, a distinguished health econometrician has noted that it "...changed the way health economists estimate models that are nonlinear and have an endogenous explanatory variable. These models are common and his methods are now widely used." His main fields of interest in health policy include: the analysis of the labor market outcomes of individuals with spinal cord injury; the economic causes and consequences of substance abuse, the economics of nicotine and tobacco use; and the behavioral economics of obesity. His research has been supported by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Substance Abuse Policy Research Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Commonwealth Fund, RWJF – Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization, and others. In the past he has served as Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association and currently serves on the editorial boards of Foundations and Trends in Econometrics and Health Services Research. He is also a member of the AcademyHealth Methods Council and the AcademyHealth Health Services Research Learning Consortium. |
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Keynote Speaker
Donald Kenkel Donald Kenkel's expertise is in areas of health economics and public sector economics. Broadly speaking, most of his research is on the economics of disease prevention and health promotion. He is the author of the chapter on "Prevention" in the Handbook of Health Economics (2000). He has conducted a series of studies on the economics of public health policies, including: alcohol taxes and other policies to prevent alcohol problems (Journal of Applied Econometrics 2001, American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings 2005); cigarette taxes to prevent youth smoking (Journal of Political Economy 2002, Journal of Health Economics 2008); and advertising to promote smoking cessation (Journal of Political Economy 2007). His current research is on the economics of tobacco regulaton. Another area of research and teaching interest is in cost-benefit analysis of public policies, especially policies that affect health. |
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