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Unhealthy Economics: How and Why Common Insights for Public Health Policy in Developing Countries Often Get it Wrong

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Air date:	Thursday, October 24, 2013, 2:00:00 PM Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local
Views:	Total views: 274 (25 Live, 249 On-demand)
Category:	BSSR - Behavioral and Social Sciences
Runtime:	01:20:41
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Description:	BSSR Lecture Series This talk will cover some common assumptions made by public health officials or activists in developing countries as well as recent research showing that they are often wrong. For example we will cover, why people can be paid for doing what is good for them, why free Heath care is not a panacea for the poor, and why information campaigns are not magic bullets. Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a founder and director of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). Her research focuses on microeconomic issues in developing countries, including household behavior, education, access to finance, health and policy evaluation. Duflo has received numerous academic honors and prizes including The Dan David Award (Laureate in Future Dimension, 2013), the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award (with Abhijit Banerjee) for “Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty” (2011), the David N. Kershaw Award from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (2011), a John Bates Clark Medal for the best economist under 40 (2010), a MacArthur Fellowship (2009) and the American Economic Association's Elaine Bennett Prize for Research (2003). Duflo is an NBER Research Associate, serves on the board of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), is Director of the Center of Economic Policy Research's development economics program and is a member of the President’s Global Development Council. She serves as the founding editor of the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.

NLM Title:	Unhealthy economics : how and why common insights for public health policy in developing countries often get it wrong / Esther Duflo, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Author:	Duflo, Esther. National Institutes of Health (U.S.),
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Abstract:	(CIT): This talk will cover some common assumptions made by public health officials or activists in developing countries as well as recent research showing that they are often wrong. For example we will cover, why people can be paid for doing what is good for them, why free heath care is not a panacea for the poor, and why information campaigns are not magic bullets.
Subjects:	Choice Behavior Developing Countries Health Policy Motivation
Publication Types:	Lecture Webcast

NLM Classification:	WA 530.1
NLM ID:	101619336
CIT Live ID:	13251
Permanent link:	https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=13251

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