Health Economics Seminar with David Cutler: "Addiction, Thick Market Externalities, and the Persistence of the Opioid Epidemic"

Health Economics Seminar with David Cutler: "Addiction, Thick Market Externalities, and the Persistence of the Opioid Epidemic"

Monday, November 18, 2024
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
(Pacific)

Encina Commons, Room 119
Department of Health Policy/Center for Health Policy   
615 Crothers Way, Stanford

Lunch will be provided

David Cutler

Health Economics Seminar with David Cutler  

 David Cutler is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. He advises many companies and groups on health care.

Professor Cutler was a key advisor in the formulation of the recent cost control legislation in Massachusetts, and is one of the members of the Health Policy Commission created to help reduce medical spending in that state.