时间：2016/03/15，10:00-12:00

地点：经济学院一楼院史馆

主讲人：Chad Meyerhoefer

主讲题目：The Medical Care Costs of Youth Obesity

主讲人介绍：Chad博士毕业于长春藤联盟之Cornell大学，现为美国Lehigh大学经济系副教授，美国经济研究局（NBER）研究员。研究领域为健康经济学与公共政策。

内容摘要：This paper is the first to use instrumental variables to estimate the causal impact of youth obesity on medical care costs in order to address the endogeneity of weight. We use restricted-use data on 11-17 year old children from the 2000-2010 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, allowing us to instrument for child BMI using the BMI of the child's biological parents. We use the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey as a source of validation data to correct for reporting error due to parental reporting of height and weight. We find that previous research has underestimated the cost of youth obesity. We also find evidence that the costs of youth obesity are borne mostly by third party-payers, and that public programs pay most of these costs.