The meeting is open only to members of the Health Policy Working Group.

The meeting is open only to members of the Health Policy Working Group.

Conference will feature economists and public health experts from institutions across the US, who will present their research in two main areas: (1) pharmaceuticals and health and (2) information, behavior, and competition in health markets.

Meeting time is 1:30 – 2:30pm. Refreshments will be provided. The meeting is open only to members of the Health Policy Working Group.

Lunch will be provided. The meeting is open only to members of the Health Policy Working Group.

Professor Areheart is an associate professor of law at the University of Tennessee. He writes about antidiscrimination theory, disability rights, and social movements. Professor Areheart is particularly interested in the structure of employment discrimination laws and the major normative theories that animate them. His articles have been published or are forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal, Minnesota Law Review, Boston College Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, Alabama Law Review, and George Washington Law Review.

Patrick Button primarily researches discrimination. First, he quantifies discrimination through audit field experiments, often resume experiments. He has studied hiring discrimination against older workers and Indigenous Peoples in the United States. He is currently working on studies of discrimination against LGBTQ people in access to mortgages and in access to mental health care.

Robert Anderson received his JD from New York University School of Law in 2000, and was associated with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP from 2000 to 2003 where his practice focused on mergers and acquisitions and financial institutions regulation. In 2008, he received his PhD in Political Science at Stanford University, where his fields included American Politics, Political Organizations, and Political Methodology (Statistics).

The conference is jointly organized by the Murphy Institute and the European University Institute, Florence.  The UK's Brexit referendum and the US's 2016 presidential primaries signaled that significant elements of civil society are unhappy with the political and economic system that has been in place since the end of World War II.  The world trading system, based on the European Union and the World Trade Organization, and extended by a wide range of other agreements, appeared to be an extraordinary example of a broadly rule-based system, but it

Mashfiqur Khan, a postdoctoral fellow at the Murphy Institute and Department of Economics, is an applied microeconomist with primary interests in labor economics and economics of aging. He received his Ph.D. in economics at Boston College in 2017 and, as a Fulbright Fellow, received an M.A. in economics at the New York University in 2010. His research is broadly focused on analyzing the interactions among old age labor supply, health, and the Social Security system in the United States.