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SUMMARY:David Grusky\, Stanford University\, "Why is Evidence-Based Policy Still So Elusive?  The Case of U.S. Homelessness Policy"
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nBiography: David B. Grusky is Edward Ames Edmonds Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences\, Professor of Sociology\, and Director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University. His research examines the structure of social mobility and inequality\, new ways to improve the country’s infrastructure for monitoring mobility and inequality\, and new policies for increasing mobility and reducing inequality. \n  \nWhy is Evidence-Based Policy Still So Elusive? The Case of U.S. Homelessness Policy\n\n\n\nIn many policy zones\, the available evidence suggests that locally-tailored policy would outperform one-size-fits-all policy\, yet it’s difficult for local policymakers to carry out the local tailoring that’s consistent with that evidence. We use the case of homelessness policy to illustrate how this problem can be overcome across a wide range of policy domains.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/david-grusky-stanford-university-tbd/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Kolstad\, University of California\, Berkeley\, "Thinking versus Doing: Cognitive capacity\, decision making and medical diagnosis"
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nBiography: Jonathan Kolstad is a professor at the Haas School of Business\, where he holds the Henry J. Kaiser Chair\, and in the Economics Department at UC Berkeley. He is also a core faculty member in the Computational Precision Health Graduate Group at UC Berkeley and UCSF\, the founding director of the Center for Health Care Marketplace Innovation and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research interests lie at the intersection of health economics\, industrial organization and public economics. He is interested in finding new models and unique data that can account for the complexity of policy relevant markets\, health care in particular. Much of his work applies tools from behavioral economics and machine learning and AI to better understand behavior and market outcomes and to design policy and technology interventions to improve welfare. Kolstad was awarded the ASHEcon Medal in 2018\, given biennially to the economist age 40 or under who has made the most significant contributions to the field of health economics\, the Arrow Award for the best paper in health economics in 2014 and the NIHCM Foundation Research Award in 2016 and 2018. Kolstad is also active as an entrepreneur and founder in health care and technology and an advisor to governments\, corporations\, and startups. He received his PhD from Harvard University and BA from Stanford University. \n  \n\n\n\nThinking versus Doing: Cognitive capacity\, decision making and medical diagnosis\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbstract: We study how situational fluctuations in cognitive capacity shape behavior in high-stakes\, real-time decision-making. Drawing on recent advances in behavioral economics that revolve around inattention\, cognition and complexity\, we show that cognitive load influences how physicians in emergency departments allocate mental effort\, attention\, and make diagnostic and treatment decisions. We use quasi-random variation in patient-physician pairings\, along with granular electronic medical record and audit-log data from many clinical interactions\, to show that\, under higher cognitive load\, physicians substitute mental deliberation with more numerous but less precise diagnostic actions. Specifically\, we document that higher load (i) increases the total number of orders of diagnostic tests\, (ii) reduces the use of more precise and less common tests (iii) increases the use of common tests and (iv) increases uncertainty in diagnostic beliefs. We show that cognitive load impacts downstream inpatient admission from the emergency department: a physician in the highest cognitive load decile increases admissions by 28\% relative to the same physician in the lowest cognitive load decile\, for the exact same kind of patient. We also explore implications for policy\, including how patient-physician matching might be improved by accounting for cognitive load profiles. These results offer novel field-based evidence on the dynamics of attention and belief formation\, and shed light on how cognitive constraints shape diagnostic behavior in complex\, real-world environments.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/jonathan-kolstad-university-of-california-berkeley/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Amy Finkelstein\, MIT\, "Trading Goods for Lives: The Effect of NAFTA on Mortality"
DESCRIPTION:  \n(with Matthew Notowidigdo and Steven Shi) \nBiography: Amy Finkelstein is the John & Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the co-founder and co-Scientific Director of J-PAL North America\, a research center at MIT that encourages and facilitates randomized evaluations of important domestic policy issues. She is also the co-Director of the Economics of Health Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research and was the founding Editor of American Economic Review: Insights. \nTrading Goods for Lives: The Effect of NAFTA on Mortality\nwith Matthew Notowidigdo and Steven Shi \nAbstract:  We leverage spatial variation in exposure to the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to examine its impact on mortality and explore quantitative implications for the welfare effects of NAFTA. Areas more exposed to Mexican import competition by NAFTA experienced larger increases in mortality. In the 14 years post-NAFTA\, an area with average NAFTA exposure experienced an increase in annual\, age adjusted mortality of 0.68 percent (standard error = 0.19). NAFTA-induced mortality increases are particularly pronounced among working-age men\, a demographic that also experienced disproportionate NAFTA-induced employment declines. Comparisons with the mortality effects of other economic contractions suggest that\, unlike declines in the non-manufacturing employment-to-population (EPOP) ratio which reduce mortality\, declines in manufacturing EPOP consistently increase mortality.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/amy-finkelstein-mit-ucla/
LOCATION:Room 4240A\, 4th Floor\, Public Affairs Building\, 337 Charles Young Dr.\, LA\, CA 90095
CATEGORIES:CCPR Seminar
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SUMMARY:Developmental Seminar: Conducting Research with Vulnerable Populations
DESCRIPTION:  \n This multidisciplinary panel will address practical and ethical issues that arise when conducting research with vulnerable populations. Panelists will include CCPR affiliates Faith Deckard\, Elizabeth Kim\, Randall Kuhn\, and Meredith Phillips. \n  \nA recording of this event can be found here.
URL:https://ccpr.ucla.edu/event/developmental-seminar-conducting-research-with-vulnerable-populations/
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