Joe Selby was a founding executive director of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Much of his research has focused on diabetes outcomes and quality improvement, as well as primary care delivery, colorectal cancer screening strategies, and disparities in diabetes mellitus treatment effectiveness. 

Katie Attwell is an associate professor with the University of Western Australia School of Social Sciences. Katie specializes in mandatory vaccination policy in Europe, Australia, and the US, focusing on the tactics governments use to motivate people to get vaccinated and how policies are designed. 

Mark Navin is a professor and chair of philosophy at Oakland University (Rochester, MI) and Clinical Ethicist at Corewell Health. His research is primarily in clinical ethics and ethics in public health.  

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Laura Carstensen is a professor of psychology at Stanford, where she's the founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity. Her research focuses on ways in which motivational changes influence emotional experience and cognitive processing. 

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Abstract: Along virtually any dimension, older people report better emotional well-being than younger generations. Considering the many losses older people experience, these findings are referred to as “the paradox of aging.” Socioemotional selectivity theory offers an account based on motivational shifts associated with perceived time horizons. This talk will overview the theory and evidence generated by tests of related hypotheses. 

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Talk Title: What Makes Care Integration So Hard and What To Do About It

Care integration remains a seemingly intractable challenge in health care. In this seminar, we’ll examine why, probing deeper for explanations than simply that care is badly fragmented (which it is), so hard to integrate. By considering findings across multiple studies, methods, and theories, we will derive insights and explore promising solutions.

Sara Singer is a Primary Care and Population Health professor at Stanford. Her research focuses on ensuring patient safety, integrating services and service providers, implementing technological innovations that enhance the value of health care, and determining how policymakers can make changes to ensure higher-quality, more affordable healthcare. 

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Laura Hatfield is an associate professor of health care policy (biostatistics) at Harvard. She is currently working to improve methods for control group selection in observational health services and outcomes research, and her research focuses on developing statistical methods that incorporate multiple information sources and loss functions to improve decision making. 

Join the Visiting Fellows in Israel Studies Program at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies for a discussion about the 1973 Yom Kippur War, its historic importance for Israel’s statehood and security as well as the country’s strategic and operational lessons from the war. 

The seminar, featuring guest speaker Professor (Emeritus) Meron Medzini of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, is presented in cooperation with The Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies (U.C. Berkeley) and the Consulate General of the State of Israel to the Pacific Northwest. Promotional support is provided by the Stanford Jewish Alumni Network and Hillel at Stanford. 

Larry Diamond, the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, will moderate the discussion.

About the Speakers:

Meron Medzini is Professor (emeritus) at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. In 1962 he was appointed Director of the Israel Government Press Office in Jerusalem and in that capacity he served as spokesman for Prime Ministers Levi Eshkol (1965-1969), Golda Meir (1973-1974) and Yitzhak Rabin (1974-1975). He was sent on many speaking missions for the Jewish Agency, the United Jewish Appeal and served as Scholar In Residence for the World Zionist Organization multiple times. From 1973- 2017 he taught courses on Israel, Zionism, Israeli politics and foreign policy at the Rothberg International School of the Hebrew University. His book Golda - A Political Biography (De Gruyters, Oldenburg, 2016) won the Israeli Prime Minister’s Award for books on Israeli leaders for the year 2010. He was the editor of the Series Israel’s Foreign Relations – Selected Documents, published by the Israel Foreign Ministry, 18 volumes were printed from 1997-2001. 

Ron E. Hassner is the Chancellor’s Professor of Political Science and Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies at the U.C. Berkeley. He teaches courses on international conflict and religion. His research explores the role of ideas, practices, and symbols in international security with particular attention to the leadership between religion and violence. 

Or Rabinowitz, is an Associate Professor in the International Relations Department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. During the 2022-2023 she is a visiting associate professor at Stanford FSI’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. Her research interests focuses on nuclear proliferation, intelligence studies, and Israel-U.S. relations.

Gil-Ii Vardi is a Core Lecturer in the History Department of Stanford University. Her research examines the interplay between organizational culture, doctrine, and operational patterns in military organizations, and focuses on the incentives and dynamics of change in military thought and practice. 

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David Rehkopf is a social epidemiologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, as well as the Department of Medicine in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health. His research focuses on understanding the health implications of the decisions that are made by the government, and his work focuses on using the implications of heath inequities to push for new strategies that promote health and well being.  

SCCEI Seminar Series (Spring 2024)

Friday, May 10, 2024 | 12:00 pm -1:20 pm Pacific Time
Goldman Room E409, Encina Hall, 616 Jane Stanford Way

The US-China Trade War: Quantify the Negative Shocks to Local Housing Markets and Land-Based Finance in Chinese Cities

China’s real estate market has experienced two decades of “golden age” with soaring housing prices ever since the housing marketization. Tax-sharing and land reforms eventually made city governments heavily rely on land sales (state-land use-right transfers) to generate fiscal revenues for expenditures; the so-called “land-based finance” or “land finance” sustained through self-fulfilling prophecy of housing price and land value appreciations supported by fast urbanization and economic growth. However, the US-China trade war started in 2018 and caused a drastically negative and exogenous shock to this feedback loop in Chinese cities, however. This research studies the trade war’s impacts on local housing markets and land-based finance. It constructs a shift-share measure transmitting the macro tariff changes to city-specific heterogeneous negative shocks. Analyses apply prefecture-city data spanning 2016-2019 and show that the tariffs were destructive to local housing markets and land finance besides hitting production. When cities experienced an extra percentage point (pp) of the weighted average tariff rate, transacted housing dropped by 3% and the prices fell by 1.2%, all else equal. The housing market tumbles deterred developers from buying state lands. The extra pp of the tariffs thus decreased the city government’s land-sale revenues by 7.6%. As Chinese cities faced, on average, a 1.62 pp increase in the average tariffs and, at the extreme, a 10.4 pp change within a year upon the trade war, impacts were substantial in hitting local housing markets and draining local public finance. Land-sale revenue declines between 12% to 79% were not uncommon. Further analysis reveals the more resilient cities in this trade-war were those with less severe overbuilding aka ghost-town phenomenon, a more diversified industrial base or export destinations, or a stronger tertiary sector. Overall, the US-China trade war could have more adversely impacted housing markets and local public finance in smaller cities than in big cities.

Please register for the event to receive email updates and add it to your calendar. Lunch will be provided.

About the Speaker 
 

Dr. Siqi Zheng is the STL Champion Professor of Urban and Real Estate Sustainability at the Center for Real Estate, and Department of Urban Studies and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is the faculty director of the MIT Center for Real Estate. She established MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab in 2019, and MIT China Future City Lab in 2017, and is the faculty director of her Lab.Prof. Zheng was the former President of Asian Real Estate Society (2018-2019) and is on its Board now, and she is also on the Board of American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA). She is the Co-Editor of Journal of Regional Science, and Environmental and Resource Economics. She is also the Associated Editor of China Economic Review, and Journal of Economic Surveys, and is on the editorial board of Real Estate Economics, Journal of Housing Economics and Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. 

Prof. Zheng’s field of specialization is urban and environmental economics and policy, including sustainable urbanization, sustainable real estate, and urbanization in emerging economies. She published in many peer reviewed international journals including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Human Behaviour, and the Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Economic Geography, European Economic Review, Journal of Urban Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Transportation Research Part A, Environment and Planning A, Ecological Economics, Journal of Regional Science, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. A book she has co-authored with Matthew Kahn, Blue Skies over Beijing: Economic Growth and the Environment in China (Princeton University Press) was published in 2016. Dr. Zheng has completed or been undertaking research projects granted or entrusted by the World Bank, the MassCPR, MITEI, MIT Portugal, MIT MCSC,  the Asian Development Bank, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, among others. She won the MIT Frank E. Perkins Award for Excellence in Graduate Advising in 2022. She received her Ph.D. in urban development and real estate from Tsinghua University in 2005, and did her post-doc research at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Prior to coming to MIT, she was a professor and the director of Hang Lung Center for Real Estate at Tsinghua University, China.
 

A NOTE ON LOCATION

Please join us in-person in the Goldman Conference Room located within Encina Hall on the 4th floor of the East wing.

Questions? Contact Xinmin Zhao at xinminzhao@stanford.edu
 

SCCEI Seminar Series (Winter 2024)

Friday, February 9, 2024 | 12:00 pm -1:20 pm Pacific Time
Goldman Room E409, Encina Hall, 616 Jane Stanford Way

What Makes a Desirable Spouse in China? New Evidence from a National Survey Experiment

Drawing on national survey experiment data from the 2021 Chinese General Social Survey, this research examines never-married people’s spouse preferences. The findings show how multiple characteristics of fictional marriage candidates – age, appearance, parents’ rural/urban status, education, income, and homeownership – shape men’s and women’s evaluation of the candidates’ desirability. They underscore a need to comprehensively assess the relative importance of multiple characteristics of a marriage candidate in shaping individuals’ spouse preferences. In addition, both men and women prefer a better-looking spouse with higher socioeconomic status and more resources. The findings suggest that widely observed hypergamous and homogamous unions do not reflect the preferences of both spouses, thereby cautioning against inferring individual preferences from assortative mating outcomes. Last, the findings show that individuals’ spouse preferences are embedded in and differ between China’s rural and urban marriage markets. This research demonstrates the importance of directly examining spouse preferences in clarifying the mechanisms of marital sorting.

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About the Speaker 
 

Yue Qian is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She received her PhD in Sociology from the Ohio State University. Her research concerns inequality at the intersection of gender, family, and work in East Asia (China in particular) and North America. Currently, this work follows two lines of inquiry: (1) how mate selection and couple dynamics in intimate relationships reflect and shape gender inequality in the broader society; and (2) how social and mental health inequalities manifest and evolve in the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Qian has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles since 2014. Her work has appeared in top journals, such as Nature Human Behaviour, American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and Gender & Society.
 

A NOTE ON LOCATION

Please join us in-person in the Goldman Conference Room located within Encina Hall on the 4th floor of the East wing.

Questions? Contact Xinmin Zhao at xinminzhao@stanford.edu
 

SCCEI Seminar Series (Winter 2024)

Friday, January 19, 2024 | 12:00 pm -1:20 pm Pacific Time
Goldman Room E409, Encina Hall, 616 Jane Stanford Way

The Law and Economics of Lawyers: Evidence from the Revolving Door in China’s Judicial System
 

This paper studies the roles of lawyers in shaping judicial and economic outcomes, exploiting the unique setting of “revolving-door” lawyers in China’s judicial system. By compiling the first comprehensive dataset covering the universes of judges, lawyers, law firms, litigants, and lawsuits in China from 2014 to 2022, we identify over 14,000 judges who left their positions and joined private law firms as lawyers, which accounts for 6.5% of all judges (2.6% of all lawyers) nationwide. We document four main empirical patterns. First, in both criminal and commercial lawsuits, these revolving-door lawyers enjoy significant advantages in securing favorable court decisions for their clients. Second, leveraging intra-lawyer variation in performances at home vs. away courts, we show that the premium of revolving door lawyers comes from both “know who” and “know how.” Third, revolving-door lawyers add significant values to their firms beyond their roles as frontline lawyers, by mentoring junior colleagues and attracting larger clients. Fourth, the revolving door lawyers, by joining larger law firms that disproportionately serve rich individuals and large corporates, could exacerbate existing socio-economic inequalities in China.

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About the Speaker 
 

Shaoda Wang is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He also serves as the Deputy Faculty Director at the Energy Policy Institute at UChicago, China center (EPIC-China). He is an applied economist with research interests in development economics, environmental economics, and political economy. His main research agenda aims at understanding the political economy of public policy, with a regional focus on China.

He holds a BA from Peking University, and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining Harris, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Economics and Energy Policy Institute (EPIC) at the University of Chicago.
 

A NOTE ON LOCATION

Please join us in-person in the Goldman Conference Room located within Encina Hall on the 4th floor of the East wing.

Questions? Contact Xinmin Zhao at xinminzhao@stanford.edu