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Wednesdays@NICO Seminar: The Economic Consequences of Hospital Admissions
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
12:00 PM
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Lower Level Chambers Hall
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The Economic Consequences of Hospital Admissions
Wednesdays@NICO | 12:00-1:00 PM, April 20, 2016 | Chambers Hall, Lower Level
Matthew Notowidigdo, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
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We examine some economic consequences of hospitalizations using an event study approach in which we link one million individuals with a (non-pregnancy related) hospital admission to a 10-year panel of their consumer credit reports.
For prime-age adults with health insurance, wefind that hospital admissions increase unpaid medical bills, increase bankruptcy rates, reduce access to credit, and reduce borrowing. For uninsured, prime-age adults, we find substantially larger impacts on unpaid medical bills and bankruptcy, but similar effects on access to credit and borrowing; for the elderly, wefind impacts only on unpaid medical bills. Our results suggest that insured adults are not fully protected against adverse economic consequences from hospital admissions, and that the uninsured may not be substantially less protected economically. Relatedly, our results suggest an important role for uninsured income consequences of hospital admissions; we estimate that less than 20 percent of the adverse consequences for prime-age insured adults can be attributed to uncovered medical expenses.
Bio
Matthew Notowidigdo studies a broad set of topics in labor and health economics. In labor economics, his research has focused on understanding the causes and consequences of unemployment duration dependence, the incidence of local labor demand shocks, and the economic effects of unemployment insurance over the business cycle. Notowidigdo's research in health economics focuses on the effects of public health insurance on labor supply, the effects of health on the marginal utility of consumption, and the effects of income on health spending. Notowidigdo is an Associate Editor at the Quarterly Journal of Economics, a member of the Board of Editors at the American Economic Journal - Economic Policy, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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WED@NICO SEMINAR: Lightning Talks w/ Northwestern Scholars!
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
12:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall
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Speakers:
Yessica Herrera, Visiting Scholar, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems
Talk Title: The Body Speaks: Visual Patterns of Psychological Stress
Aakriti Kumar, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems
Talk Title: Evaluating Elements of Empathic Communication with Experts, Crowds, and Large Language Models
Tingyu "Mark" Zhao, PhD Student, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Talk Title: Noise Filtering in Complex Networks
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Location:
In person: Chambers Hall, 600 Foster Street, Lower Level
Remote option: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/95387714084
Passcode: NICO25
About the Speaker Series:
Wednesdays@NICO is a vibrant weekly seminar series focusing broadly on the topics of complex systems, data science and network science. It brings together attendees ranging from graduate students to senior faculty who span all of the schools across Northwestern, from applied math to sociology to biology and every discipline in-between. Please visit: https://bit.ly/WedatNICO for information on future speakers.
Time
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall Map
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WED@NICO SEMINAR: Rosemary Braun, Northwestern University "The Scale of Life"
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
12:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall
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Speaker:
Rosemary Braun, Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University
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The Scale of Life
Abstract:
Living systems exhibit surprising and beautiful self-organization at all scales. At the atomic level, proteins self-assemble into macromolecular complexes. The function of these machines is orchestrated within the cell by regulatory networks, whose activity is in turn dictated by, and coordinated with, the cells environment. This coordination takes place across large spans of space and time: the size and lifetime of organisms as large as the blue whale. Populations and ecosystems of many organisms in turn exhibit remarkable emergent dynamics. Today, advances in single-cell assays enable us to probe the molecular state of every cell in a sample in high-dimensional detail. But is this the correct scale at which to probe living systems? What can we learn from this data, and how can we abstract from the microscopic details to macroscopic phenotypes? In this talk, I will discuss some of our recent work bridging the cell and tissue/organism scales, and discuss some challenges and opportunities for the future.
Speaker Bio:
Rosemary Braun is an Associate Professor of Molecular Biosciences, Applied Mathematics [ESAM], and Physics at Northwestern University. A theoretical physicist by training, she earned her PhD in Physics from the University of Illinois, followed by a Masters in Biostatistics from Johns Hopkins University. She completed her postdoctoral training at the National Cancer Institute (NIH) before joining Northwestern as a faculty member. Today, she works at the intersection of statistics, mathematics, and biology to develop computational tools for analyzing high-dimensional data. In addition to her Northwestern affiliations, she is also Associate Director of the National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology, as well as external faculty of the Santa Fe Institute.
Location:
In person: Chambers Hall, 600 Foster Street, Lower Level
Remote option: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/97015976754
Passcode: NICO25
About the Speaker Series:
Wednesdays@NICO is a vibrant weekly seminar series focusing broadly on the topics of complex systems, data science and network science. It brings together attendees ranging from graduate students to senior faculty who span all of the schools across Northwestern, from applied math to sociology to biology and every discipline in-between. Please visit: https://bit.ly/WedatNICO for information on future speakers.
Time
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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