5th Annual Meeting on the Economics of Risky Behaviors (AMERB)

Friday, April 05:

08:30	-	09:00		Registration Coffee and Tea
09:00	-	09:15		Welcoming Remarks Erdal Tekin (Georgia State University and IZA), Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA and University of Bonn), and Amelie F. Constant (George Washington University, Temple University and IZA)
				Session A: Recessions and Risky Behaviors
				Chair: Amelie F. Constant (George Washington University, Temple University)
09:15	-	10:15		Nathan Tefft (University of Washington), Chad Cotti (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh), Richard A. Dunn (Texas A&M University)
				"The Dow is Killing Me: Risky Health Behaviors and the Stock Market"
				Discussant: Chandler McClellan (Georgia State University)
10:15	-	11:15		Jason M. Lindo (University of Oregon), Jessamyn Schaller (University of Arizona), Benjamin Hansen (University of Oregon)
				"Economic Downturns and Child Abuse"
				Discussant: Sally Wallace (Georgia State University)
11:15	-	11:30		Coffee Break
				Special Lecture
				Chair: Erdal Tekin (Georgia State University)
11:30	-	12:30		Michael P. Eriksen (Georgia State University)
				"The Pursuit of Nicotine and Its Changing Effect on Public Health"
12:30	-	13:30		Lunch
				Session B: Obesity, Wages, and Worker Safety
				Chair: Helen Chung (Swiss Re)
13:30	-	14:30		Charles Courtemanche (Georgia State University), Josh Pinkston (University of Louisville), Christopher Ruhm (University of Virginia), George Wehby (University of Iowa)
				"Can Changing Economic Incentives Explain the Rise in Obesity?"
				Discussant: Monica Deza (University of Texas at Dallas)
14:30	-	15:30		Nicolas R. Ziebarth (Cornell University), José R. Guardado (American Medical Association)
				"A Model of Worker Investment in Safety and Its Effects on Accidents and Wages"
				Discussant: Corrado Giulietti (IZA)
15:30	-	15:45		Coffee Break
				Session C: War, Health, and Medical Technology
				Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA and University of Bonn)
15:45	-	16:45		Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel (Dalhousie University)
				"War during Childhood: The Long Term Effects of Warfare on Children's Health "
				Discussant: Charles Courtemanche (Georgia State University)
16:45	-	17:45		Jason Hockenberry (Emory University), Shin-Yi Chou (Lehigh University), Michael Grossman (CUNY), Jesse Margolis (CUNY)
				"Moral Hazard and Less Invasive Medical Treatment for Coronary Artery Disease: "
				Discussant: Nicolas R. Ziebarth (Cornell University)
19:00				Dinner

Saturday, April 06:

08:30	-	09:00		Coffee and Tea
				Session D: Happiness, Suicides, and Risk
				Chair: Mary Beth Walker (Georgia State University)
09:00	-	10:00		Andrew J. Oswald (University of Warwick), Robert J. B. Goudie (University of Warwick), Sach Mukherjee (University of Warwick), Jan-Emmanuel de Neve (The Netherlands Cancer Institute), Stephen Wu (Hamilton College)
				"Happiness as a Driver of Risk-avoiding Behavior: A Conceptual Framework with an Application to Seatbelt Wearing and Automobile Accidents"
				Discussant: Rainer Winkelmann (University of Zurich)
10:00	-	11:00		Yarine Fawaz (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Jérôme Adda (European University Institute)
				"The Human Cost of Labour"
				Discussant: Costanza Biavaschi (IZA)
11:00	-	11:15		Coffee Break
				Keynote Address
				Chair: Erdal Tekin (Georgia State University)
11:15	-	12:15		John Cawley (Cornell University)
				"Similarities and Synergies in Economic Research on Various Risky Behaviors"
12:15	-	13:30		Lunch
				Session E: Gangs and Prisons
				Chair: Glenn Harrison (Georgia State University)
13:30	-	14:30		Magnus Lofstrom (Public Policy Institute of California), Steven Raphael (University of California, Berkeley)
				"Prison and Crime: The Case of California’s Corrections Realignment"
				Discussant: Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza (Universidad EAFIT)
14:30	-	15:30		Rodrigo R. Soares (PUC-Rio), Leandro Carvalho (RAND)
				"Living on the Edge: Youth Entry, Career and Exit in Drug-Selling Gangs"
				Discussant: Nathan Tefft (University of Washington)
15:30	-	15:45		Coffee Break
				Session F: Substance Abuse
				Chair: James A. Weyhenmeyer (Georgia State University)
15:45	-	16:45		Sarah Cattan (Institute for Fiscal Studies, London), Joseph Altonji (Yale University ), Iain Ware (Bain Capital )
				"Identifying Sibling Influence on Teenage Substance Use"
				Discussant: Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel (Dalhousie University)
16:45	-	17:45		Monica Deza (University of Texas at Dallas)
				"The Effects of Alcohol on the Consumption of Hard Drugs: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1997"
				Discussant: Núria Rodríguez-Planas (IZA, IAE-CSIC and UPF)
19:00				Dinner

Sunday, April 07:

08:45	-	09:15		Coffee and Tea
				Session G: Education and Drug Use
				Chair: Erdal Tekin (Georgia State University)
09:15	-	10:15		Deborah A. Cobb-Clark (University of Melbourne), Sonja Kassenboehmer (University of Melbourne), Tring Le (University of Melbourne), Duncan McVicar (University of Melbourne), Rong Zhang (University of Melbourne)
				"'High'-School: The Impact of Early Marijuana Use on Educational Outcomes"
				Discussant: Ulf Rinne (IZA)
10:15	-	11:15		Núria Rodríguez-Planas (IZA, IAE-CSIC and UPF)
				"School and Drugs: Closing the Gap Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the US "
				Discussant: Volkan Topalli (Georgia State University)
11:15	-	11:45		Concluding Remarks by Erdal Tekin and Amelie F. Constant
11:45				Farewell Lunch