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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:WHY DOESN’T THE UNITED STATES HAVE NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE? THE POLITICAL ROLE OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
DESCRIPTION:This study examines how the American Medical Association (AMA) helped shape the development of the U.S. health insurance system in the critical period after World War II. Working with the political public relations firm Campaigns\, Inc.\, the AMA launched a nationwide campaign to weaken support for National Health Insurance by framing it as “socialized medicine\,” while simultaneously enrolling people in private health insurance plans to shift demand away from a public alternative. Drawing on newly assembled archival data\, we find that greater exposure to the campaign explains about 20% of the rise in private health insurance enrollment and a comparable decline in public support for a national program. The campaign also appears to have influenced policymaking through coordinated messaging\, resolutions passed by civic organizations\, congressional rhetoric\, and political donations. These findings suggest that the rise of private health insurance in the United States was not solely due to macroeconomic forces or collective bargaining\; rather it was also enabled by a strategic\, interest group-financed effort to shape citizen views and influence policy.
UID:145436-21897345@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145436
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar,Public Finance,Economics
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
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DTSTAMP:20260112T100344
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T115000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Joint Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics and ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics: Tuesday\, April 21
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UID:143698-21893660@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143698
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar,Labor,Economics
LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430 AC
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DTSTAMP:20260413T092642
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T125000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Why Are Some Recoveries Weak and Others Strong?
DESCRIPTION:Why were the recoveries from the 1990-1\, 2001\, and 2007-9 recessions weak relative to other postwar recessions? Leveraging heterogeneous exposure to the national business cycle across U.S. States\, we estimate the trajectory of more exposed U.S. States relative to less exposed U.S. States. For the 1990-1\, 2001\, and 2007-9 recessions we estimate that more exposed States experienced a stronger boom-bust cycle and for the other postwar recessions we estimate a deeper V-shaped recession in more exposed States. Our estimates support theories that these recessions are caused by different shocks. In a quantitative model matched to our cross-sectional estimates\, boom-bust cycles persistently depress the natural rate of interest R∗ in the recovery\, whereas R∗ is elevated following V-shaped recessions
UID:143303-21892658@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143303
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Macroeconomics,seminar,Economics
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
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DTSTAMP:20260407T090413
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T130000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Digital Ecosystems and Data Regulation
DESCRIPTION:This paper develops a framework in which a multiproduct ecosystem competes with multiple single-product firms in both price and innovation. The ecosystem can use data from one product to improve the quality of its other products. We use the framework to study three regulatory policies aimed at leveling the playing field. Restricting the ecosystem’s cross-product data usage\, or forcing it to share data with single-product firms\, benefits those firms and induces them to innovate more. However\, these policies also dampen the ecosystem’s incentive to collect data and innovate\, potentially raising prices. Consumers are better off only when single-product firms are sufficiently good at innovating. Facilitating data exchange between single-product firms via a data cooperative can backfire and harm them\, because it induces the ecosystem to price more aggressively. For both the data-sharing and data-cooperative policies\, there exist data-compensation schemes such that consumers are better off compared to no regulation.
UID:143387-21892976@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143387
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Industrial Organization,seminar,Theory,Economics
LOCATION:North Quad - 4300
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260109T093947
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Economic History: Sebastian Sotelo
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UID:143571-21893404@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143571
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,History,seminar
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260413T082805
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260422T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260422T155000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Development as Skills and Altruism
DESCRIPTION:This paper emphasizes the central role of skill and altruism in development\, defined as an increase in social welfare. In the basic model\, skills expand the set of feasible payoffs\, while altruism guides the decision maker’s choice. Greater skills need not increase social welfare\, because such expansions combine a positive frontier effect with an ambiguous substitution effect\, potentially toward actions that are privately attractive but socially harmful. This ambiguous effect of skills on development is referred to as the “lottery of the technology” and disappears when altruism is high enough to ensure that new opportunities created by skills are used only when they raise social welfare. Extensions of the model show that 1) endogenous technological change makes altruism even more influential in the long run 2) the effect of stronger institutions is subject to a “lottery of alignment of interests” between policymakers’ private gains and social welfare\, unless policymakers’ altruism is high enough to ensure the good use of institutional power\, making institutions a lever of altruism rather than a substitute and 3) allowing altruism to be group-specific shows that only universal altruism guarantees the effective use of skill improvements. This framework speaks to many contemporary and historical events and leads to the conclusion that ensuring long-term development requires both the selection of altruistic leaders and a population shift in the distribution of altruism.
UID:144125-21894695@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144125
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Development,Economics,seminar
LOCATION:North Quad - 4300
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DTSTAMP:20260415T092058
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260428T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260428T125000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The Commoditization of Labor (joint with Emi Nakamura and Jón Steinsson)
DESCRIPTION:Technical change often simplifies jobs. This increases productivity\, but it also makes work- ers more substitutable—or more “commoditized”. Commoditization of labor drives down worker bargaining power: anyone can do the job\, implying workers are disposable\, which improves the outside option of firms and can lower worker wages. We develop a model that captures both the productivity enhancing and wage depressing effects of commoditizing tech- nical change. Commoditizing technical change involves firms standardizing tasks which im- plies that output is less sensitive to worker quality. Firms benefit because they can more easily fill vacancies for their durable jobs. We show that our model can help explain the divergence between productivity and wages in the service sector\, increasing markdowns despite falling local concentration\, and the decline of the large-firm wage premium.
UID:143304-21892669@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143304
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar,Macroeconomics,Economics
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
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