Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
Organized by Jevay Grooms and Hannes Schwandt
May 17, 2024
NBER, 1050 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138 and Zoom

Friday, May 17

8:15am

Breakfast

8:45am

Welcome

8:50am

Could Racial Disparities in Coverage due to Medicaid Administrative Burden be Rooted in Racist Origins?

Joseph A. Benitez, University of Kentucky
Ashley M. Fox, University at Albany, State University of New York
Jason Coupet, Georgia State University

Discussant:
David M. Cutler, Harvard University and NBER

9:30am

Rationing by Race

Manasvini Singh, Carnegie Mellon University
Atheendar Venkataramani, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

Discussant:
Joseph A. Benitez, University of Kentucky

10:10am

Break

10:30am

Investigator Racial Diversity and Clinical Trial Participation

Marcella Alsan, Stanford University and NBER
Lukas Leister, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Romaine A. Campbell, Cornell University
Ayotomiwa Ojo, Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Discussant:
Mireille Jacobson, University of Southern California and NBER

11:10am

The Causes and Consequences of Urban Heat Islands

Tridevi Chakma, Harvard University
Jonathan M. Colmer, University of Virginia
John L. Voorheis, U.S. Census Bureau

Discussant:
Jacob H. Bor, Boston University

11:50am

Lunch, including a tribute to William Spriggs

1:20pm

Keynote address
Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER

2:20pm

Inequality Amplified: Workplace Stratification and Racial Health Disparities

Kurt J. Lavetti, The Ohio State University and NBER
Long Hong, Arizona State University
Jonathan A. Holmes, Tulane University
Trevon Logan, The Ohio State University and NBER

Discussant:
Yu-Chu Shen, Naval Postgraduate School and NBER

3:00pm

Break

3:20pm

Determinants and Effects of WIC Rollout: Evidence from Newly Digitized Data from the National Archives

Marianne Bitler, University of California, Davis and NBER
Danea Horn, University of California, San Francisco
Esra Kose, University of California, Merced
Maria Rosales-Rueda, University of Delaware and NBER
Arian Seifoddini, Federal Trade Commission

Discussant:
Preeti Pushpalata Zanwar, Texas A&M University

4:00pm

Drug Arrest Diversion

Panka Bencsik, Vanderbilt University
Ashna Arora, Arnold Ventures

Discussant:
Bernard Black, Northwestern University

4:40pm

Closing Discussion

4:50pm

Adjourn