Economics Lectures

Opportunities to
Mitigate Climate Change
in Developing Countries

Dr. Seema Jayachandran
Professor of Economics, Princeton University

Thursday, Nov. 14, 2 p.m.
Kehr Union, Multipurpose Rooms A&B
Live and open to the public
Livestream Link.

Seema Jayachandran is a Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Her research focuses on environmental conservation, gender equality, and other microeconomic topics in developing countries.

She serves on the board of directors of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and leads J-PAL's gender sector. She is also co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research's program in Development Economics and co-editor of American Economic Review: Insights. In addition, she serves on CARE's board of directors.

Prior to joining Princeton, she was a faculty member at Northwestern University and Stanford University. She earned a PhD in economics from Harvard University, a master's degree in physics and philosophy from the University of Oxford where she was a Marshall Scholar, and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from MIT.

What Does Health Insurance Do?

Dr. Matthew J. Notowidigdo, University of Chicago

Thursday, April 3, 2025, 2 p.m.
Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall
Open to public and livestreamed.

Dr. Notowidigdo's lecture has been canceled due to weather/flight delay.

Dr. Notowidigdo's lecture will discuss how health insurance confers benefits to the previously uninsured, including improvements in health, reductions in out-of-pocket spending, and reduced medical debt. He argues that health insurance also confers benefits to health care providers, because the uninsured often pay only a small share of their medical expenses. The prevalence of this "uncompensated care" for the uninsured helps explain the limited take-up of heavily-subsidized public health insurance, which is often interpreted as evidence that public health insurance recipients value formal health insurance at substantially less than the cost to insurers of providing that coverage. The Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion has been a useful laboratory for studying all of these economic issues.

Sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs and the Zeigler College of Business.