Schedule

Date	Presenter	Institution	Paper Title
2020-09-14	Pietro Biroli	University of Zurich	Genes, Pubs, and Drinks: Gene-environment interplay and alcohol licensing policy in the United Kingdom
2020-09-21	Eva Rye Johansen	Aarhus University	Relative Age for Grade and Adolescent Risky Health Behavior: Evidence on Abortions and Alcohol Poisonings
2020-09-28	Patricia Ritter	University of Connecticut	The Hidden Role of Piped Water in the Prevention of Obesity. Experimental and Non-Experimental Evidence from Developing Countries
2020-10-05	Mariana Gerstenbluth	Universidad de la República	Smokers’ Rational Lexicographic Preferences for Cigarette Package Warnings: A Discrete Choice Experiment with Eye Tracking
2020-10-12	Anne Burton	Cornell University	The Impact of Smoking Bans in Bars and Restaurants on Alcohol Consumption, Smoking, and Social Welfare
2020-10-19	Augustine Denteh	Tulane University	The Effect of SNAP on Obesity in the Presence of Endogenous Misreporting
2020-10-26	Mirjam Reutter	European University Institute (EUI)	The Morning After: Prescription-Free Access to Emergency Contraceptive Pills
2020-11-02	Claudio Deiana	University of Cagliari	Opium Price Shocks and Prescription Opioids in the US
2020-11-09	Abby Alpert	University of Pennsylvania	Origins of the Opioid Crisis and Its Enduring Impacts
2020-11-16	Francesco Principe	Erasmus School of Economics	Health’s Kitchen: Effects of Media Exposure on Health Behaviours
2020-11-23	Tiziano Arduini & Eleonora Patacchini	University of Bologna & Cornell University
2020-12-14	Federico Crudu	University of Siena	Family Ties and Child Obesity in Italy

The VERB seminar takes place Mondays at 3:30 p.m. Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Currently that equates to, e.g.:
8:30-9:30am Pacific Time
11:30am-12:30pm Eastern Time
3:30pm-4:30pm GMT
4:30-5:30pm British Summer Time / Irish Standard Time
5:30-6:30pm Central European Summer Time

Our goal is to encourage participation by researchers worldwide. One challenge to that is that different parts of the world vary in their use of daylight savings time. The solution to this is to set the time of the seminar using Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).  To determine your local time on a given date, you can use an online calculator such as this: https://time.is/compare/UTC .

Advisory Board

• Olufunke Alaba, University of Cape Town, South Africa
• Silvia Balia, Università di Cagliari, Italy 
• Michele Belot, Cornell University, USA  
• Nicole Black, Monash University, Australia 
• David Bradford, University of Georgia, USA 
• Kitt Carpenter, Vanderbilt University, USA
• Adriana Comacho Gonzalez, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
• Joan Costa-i-Font, London School of Economics, UK  
• Dhaval Dave, Bentley University, USA 
• Edel Doherty, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland  
• Davide Dragone, University of Bologna, Italy  
• Fabrice Etile, Paris School of Economics, France
• Michael French, University of Miami, USA
• Martin Gonzalez Rozada, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Argentina 
• Euna Han, Yonsei University, South Korea  
• Florence Jusot, Paris-Dauphine University, France 
• Feng Liu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen 
• Petter Lundborg, Lund University, Sweden
• Jan Marcus, Universität Hamburg, Germany 
• Sara Markowitz, Emory University, USA
• Toni Mora, International University of Catalonia, Spain
• Rosalie Pacula, University of Southern California, USA
• Guillermo Paraje, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile  
• Heather Royer, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
• Christopher Ruhm, University of Virginia, USA
• Enrique Seira Bejarano, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico 
• Manisha Shah, UCLA, USA 
• Jody Sindelar, Yale University, USA   
• Erdal Tekin, American University, USA
• Patricia Triunfo, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
• Marjon van der Pol, University of Aberdeen, Scotland  
• Kevin Volpp, University of Pennsylvania, USA 
• Stephanie von Hinke, University of Bristol, UK 
• Casey Warman, Dalhousie University, Canada  
• Jenny Williams, University of Melbourne, Australia 
• Nicolas Ziebarth, Cornell University, USA 

The VERB: Virtual Seminar on the Economics of Risky Health Behaviors will begin in September 2020.  It is an adaptation to the situation faced by our universities during the COVID-19 epidemic, and will allow researchers worldwide to share information about their research on the economics of health behaviors, including smoking, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, poor diet, physical inactivity, obesity, risky sex, self-harm, and suicide.  Studies may examine causes of these behaviors, their consequences, or the effects of policies or interventions to prevent and reduce these behaviors.

Presentations in this seminar will mainly be of two types. First, there will be presentations of single research papers, as is common in most university seminars. These will largely be reserved for early-career scholars, including advanced graduate students, postdocs, and assistant professors. These will not be recorded unless the presenter requests.  Second, there will be “keynotes” by senior scholars, who will present an overview of an entire area of research related to the economics of health behaviors. These will be recorded and available for professors to assign to students as part of the curriculum of their health economics courses.

This seminar is one of several virtual seminars being offered in health economics. You may also wish to check out:

• The Electronic Health Economics Colloquium
• Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS)