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SUMMARY:Job Market Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Job Market Workshop \nWednesday\, February 3\, 2021 \n12:00pm to 1:00pm \nCorrina Moucheraud is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management. She is a global health policy and systems researcher\, focused on the question: how can we deliver high-quality\, efficient\, equitable\, sustainable health services in low-resource\, system-constrained settings? She conducts both quantitative and qualitative research\, including with primary data (surveys\, interviews\, focus groups\, clinical observation) and secondary data\, as well as economic evaluation research such as cost-effectiveness analyses. Main topic areas include HIV\, maternal health\, and non-communicable diseases\, and she primarily conducts research in sub-Saharan Africa. \nTo learn more about Dr. Moucheraud click here. \nMichael Gaddis is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at UCLA whose research focuses on racial discrimination\, educational inequality\, and mental health. He often uses experiments to examine  levels of discrimination in employment and housing as well as the conditions under which racial discrimination occurs. In other research\, he investigates differences in mental health conditions\, stigma\, and use of formal and informal mental health treatment on college campuses. Overall\, his research provides evidence of inequality in the U.S. related to race\, social class\, and education. \nTo learn more about Dr. Gaddis click here.  \nRodrigo Pinto an Assistant Professor of Economics at University of California\, Los Angeles. Pinto has a series of papers on the economics of human capital accumulation of early childhood interventions and policy evaluations. His research focuses on modeling\, inference\, cost-benefit analysis\, external validity and treatment effect estimation of social experiments. Among the experiments he has analyzed are the Perry Pre-school Intervention\, High/Scope Comparison Study\, Abecedarian Project\, Nurse-Family Partnership\, Moving to Opportunity\, and Primeira Infancia Melhor (in Brazil). Pinto also studies the use causality and the use of revealed preference analysis to identify treatment effects in choice model with multiple choices and heterogeneous agents. His work has been published in the American Economic Review\, Econometrica and Science. \nTo learn more about Dr. Pinto click here.  \nThe recording of the workshop may be accessed here. \n 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/job-market-workshop/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,CCPR Workshop
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SUMMARY:"Banks\, alternative institutions\, and the spatial-temporal ecology of racial inequality\," Mario Luis Small\, Harvard University
DESCRIPTION:Mario Luis Small\, Harvard University\nResearch has made clear that racial inequality is affected by neighborhood conditions.  One important condition is the accessibility of financial establishments. We examine how living in minority neighborhoods affects ease of access to conventional banks vs. to alternative financial institutions (AFIs) such as check cashers and payday lenders\, which are often more expensive and have at times been called predatory. Based on more than 6 million queries\, we compute the difference in the time required to walk\, drive\, or take public transit to the nearest bank vs. the nearest AFI from the middle of every block in each of 19 of the nation’s largest cities.  Results suggest that race is strikingly more important than class: even after numerous economic\, demographic\, and structural conditions are accounted for\, the AFI is more often closer than the bank in well-off minority neighborhoods than in poo rwhite ones.  Results are driven by not the absence of banks but the prevalence of AFIs in minority areas.  Documented differences are so large that accounting for them on the basis of preferences—of differences in demand for AFIs by race—would be inconsistent with available evidence and highly unlikely.  Additional survey data on preferences is consistent with these findings. \nBiography: Pro. Small is the author of award-winning books and articles on networks\, poverty\, organizations\, culture\, methods\, neighborhoods\, institutions\, and other topics. He is currently using large-scale administrative data to understand isolation in cities\, studying how people use their networks to meet their needs\, and exploring the epistemological foundations of qualitative research. His latest book is Someone To Talk To (Oxford). A study of how people decide whom to approach when seeking support\, the book is an inquiry into human nature\, a critique of network analysis\, and a discourse on the role of qualitative research in the big-data era. \nMore on Prof. Small  \n  \nThe seminar recording may be accessed here. 
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/mario-luis-small-harvard-university/
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar,Divisional Publish
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SUMMARY:"Randomized Regulation: The Impact of Minimum Quality Standards on Health Markets\," Jishnu Das\, Georgetown University
DESCRIPTION:“Randomized Regulation: The Impact of Minimum Quality Standards on Health Markets” \nJishnu Das\, Georgetown University \nAbstract: Working with the Kenyan Cabinet and Ministry of Health\, we experimentally evaluated the market-level impacts of healthcare regulation in settings with public and private providers. We randomly allocated 273 markets with 1258 facilities to treatment and control arms and in treatment arms\, facilities were inspected to assess compliance with minimum patient safety standards with the potential for closure. To accurately capture how regulation functions in low-capacity environments\, inspections and facility closures were carried out by the government using their own staff. \nThe intervention (a) increased compliance with the patient safety checklist in both public and private clinics (more so in the latter); (b) increased closures of clinics without licenses and (c) reallocated patients from private to public clinics\, primarily in markets with a facility closure. A decomposition approach shows that 93% of the increase in compliance with patient safety measures was due to improvements within facilities\, rather than exits or changes in market shares. The intervention had no impact on patients’ out-of-pocket payments\, and we find no evidence of declines in facility use\, either in the aggregate or for poorer patients. \nWe then examine three classes of mechanisms: An information channel\, a compliance channel and a vertical differentiation channel due to Ronen (1991). We do not find evidence for the information channel and weak evidence for the compliance channel. Quantile treatment effects suggest that\, consistent with Ronen (1991)\, there were quality improvements across the quality spectrum. \nOur study thus brings the regulatory function of the state under the ambit of experimental methods and shows that even in low-capacity settings\, regulations and inspections can improve the quality of care\, as measured by compliance with patient safety measures. \nBiography: Jishnu Das is a professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy and the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Jishnu’s work focuses on health and education in low and middle-income countries\, with an emphasis on social markets\, or common\, but complex\, conflagrations of public and private education and health providers operating in a small geographical space. \nA recording of the seminar can be accessed here.  \nMore on Prof. Das
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jishnu-das-georgetown-university/
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