Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

Jevay Grooms and Hannes Schwandt, Organizers

May 17, 2024

NBER, 1050 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138 and Zoom

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, May 17
8:15am
Breakfast
8:45am
Welcome
8:50am
Joseph A. Benitez, University of Kentucky
Ashley M. Fox, University at Albany, State University of New York
Jason Coupet, Georgia State University

Could Racial Disparities in Coverage due to Medicaid Administrative Burden be Rooted in Racist Origins?
Discussant: David M. Cutler, Harvard University and NBER
9:30am
Manasvini Singh, Carnegie Mellon University
Atheendar Venkataramani, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

Rationing by Race
Discussant: Joseph A. Benitez, University of Kentucky
10:10am
Break
10:30am
Marcella Alsan, Harvard University and NBER
Lukas Leister, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Romaine A. Campbell, Cornell University
Ayotomiwa Ojo, Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Investigator Racial Diversity and Clinical Trial Participation
Discussant: Mireille Jacobson, University of Southern California and NBER
11:10am
Tridevi Chakma, Harvard University
Jonathan M. Colmer, University of Virginia
John L. Voorheis, U.S. Census Bureau

The Causes and Consequences of Urban Heat Islands
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
Kurt J. Lavetti, The Ohio State University and NBER
Long Hong, The Ohio State University
Jonathan A. Holmes, University of Ottawa
Trevon Logan, The Ohio State University and NBER

Inequality Amplified: Workplace Stratification and Racial Health Disparities
Discussant: Yu-Chu Shen, Naval Postgraduate School and NBER
3:00pm
Break
3:20pm
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

Determinants and Effects of WIC Rollout: Evidence from Newly Digitized Data from the National Archives
Discussant: Preeti Pushpalata Zanwar, Texas A&M University, TJU
4:00pm
Panka Bencsik, Vanderbilt University
Ashna Arora, Arnold Ventures

Drug Arrest Diversion
Discussant: Bernard Black, Northwestern University
4:40pm
Closing Discussion
4:50pm
Adjourn