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Indemnifying precaution: economic insights for regulation of a highly infectious disease

Christopher T Robertson (Former Academic Fellow), K Aleks Schaefer, Daniel Scheitrum, Sergio Puig, Keith Joiner
Journal of Law and the Biosciences

Economic insights are powerful for understanding the challenge of managing a highly infectious disease, such as COVID-19, through behavioral precautions including social distancing. One problem is a form of moral…

What Explains Observed Reluctance to Trade? A Comprehensive Literature Review

By Kathryn Zeiler (Former Senior Academic Fellow)
in Research Handbook on Behavioral Law and Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing

From the abstract: Valuation gaps and exchange asymmetries are among the most widely studied phenomena in the field of behavioral economics. The purpose of this chapter is to present the…

Research Handbook on Behavioral Law and Economics

Edited by Joshua C. Teitelbaum and Kathryn Zeiler (Former Senior Academic Fellow)
Edward Elgar Publishing

From the description: The field of behavioral economics has contributed greatly to our understanding of human decision making by refining neoclassical assumptions and developing models that account for psychological, cognitive,…

Ordeals in Health Care: Ethics and Efficient Delivery

May 10-11, 2018
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Couldn't join us for the event? Check out some of the panelists' slide presentations below! Description Economic ordeals are interventions that deliberately make access to products or services more…

Can Rationing through Inconvenience Be Ethical?

Nir Eyal, Paul L. Romain, and Christopher T. Robertson (Academic Fellow alumnus)
Hasting Center Report

From the Article: In this article, we provide a comprehensive analysis and a normative assessment of rationing through inconvenience as a form of rationing. By “rationing through inconvenience”…

Health Economist, Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER)

Deadline: Open until filled.

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General Description: The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) is an innovative, independent non-profit health care research organization dedicated to improving the application of evidence throughout the health care…

Postdoc in Economics and Management of Innovation, University of Copenhagen

Deadline: February 15, 2018
Karin Beukel

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The Unit for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management, Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO), Faculty of Science at the University of Copenhagen is offering a 3-year position for a postdoc…

Health Law Workshop: William M. Sage

September 11, 2017

Presentation Download the Presentation: "Fracking Health Care: The Need to Safely De-Medicalize America and Recover Trapped Value for Its People" About the Presenter William M. Sage is James R. Dougherty…

Health Law Workshop: Kathryn Zeiler

March 27, 2017

Presentation Topic: "Communication-And-Resolution Programs: The Numbers Don’t Add Up" This paper is not available for download. To request a copy in preparation for the workshop, please contact Jennifer…

Executive Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School

Deadline: This position has been filled.

Duties & Responsibilities The Executive Director works in partnership with the Faculty Director on strategic planning and vision for the Center, and oversees the Center’s staff, activities, and…

Time is Money: An Empirical Assessment of Non-Economic Damages Arguments

John E. Campbell, Bernard Chao, and Christopher T. Robertson (Academic Fellow Alumnus)
Washington University Law Review, Forthcoming; U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-21; Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 16-12

From the abstract: Non-economic damages (pain and suffering) are the most significant and variable components of liability. Our survey of 51 U.S. jurisdictions shows wide heterogeneity in whether attorneys may…

Postdoctoral Research Position in Behavioral Science of Ethics and Decision-Making, Geisinger Health System

Deadline: Open until filled.

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General Description: Professors Christopher Chabris and Michelle Meyer are seeking an outstanding researcher for a position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Geisinger Health System. The postdoc will carry out…

Book Launch: Nudging Health: Health Law and Behavioral Economics

November 16, 2016

In November 2016, Johns Hopkins University Press published Nudging Health: Health Law and Behavioral Economics, co-edited by Petrie-Flom Center Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen, Executive Director Holly Fernandez Lynch, and Christopher…

RECEIVE 30% OFF! Nudging Health: Health Law and Behavioral Economics

I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director), Holly Fernandez Lynch (Executive Director), and Christopher T. Robertson (Academic Fellow alumnus), eds.
Johns Hopkins University Press

Abstract of the Introduction: This introductory chapter to the edited volume Nudging Health: Health Law and Behavioral Economics (I. Glenn Cohen, Holly Fernandez Lynch, Christopher T. Robertson, eds.) introduces the…

PFC Spotlight: Student Fellow Alumnus Neel Shah

Petrie-Flom Center

Dr. Neel Shah was a Student Fellow for the 2007-2008 academic year, while in his third year at Harvard Medical School. Then Academic Fellow and now Faculty Director I. Glenn…

Health Law Workshop: Liran Einav

March 23, 2015

Presentation Download the Presentation: "The Response of Drug Expenditure to Non-Linear Contract Design: Evidence from Medicare Part D" (co-authors, Amy Finkelstein and Paul Schrimpf) About the Presenter Liran Einav is…

Health Law Workshop: Thomas McGuire

September 22, 2014

Presentation Download the Presentation Topic Paper: Do "Reverse Payment" Settlements of Brand-Generic Patent Disputes in the Pharmaceutical Industry Constitute an Anticompetitive Pay for Delay? About the Presenter Thomas G. McGuire,…

Health Law Workshop: Anup Malani

September 15, 2014

Presentation Download the Paper: "The Insurance Value of Medical Innovation" About the Presenter Anup Malani is the Lee and Brena Freeman Professor at the University of Chicago Law School and…

Choosing not to choose: improving healthcare law by acknowledging how people behave (video)

Harvard Law Today

Harvard Law Today featured Cass Sunstein's keynote address at the 2014 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference, "Behavioral Economics, Law, and Health Policy." Sunstein, who is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at…