Boxed lunches were provided.
BFI’s Student Lunch Series invites prominent speakers to engage undergraduate and graduate students in discussions on economics. The talks highlight the practical use of economics for answering real-world questions pertinent to businesses and policy makers.
On May 2, 2023 Douglas Staiger (Dartmouth College and BFI’s Ta-Chiung Liu Distinguished Visitor) discussed his research “Validating Quality Indicators in Healthcare and Education”, moderated by Joshua Gottlieb (Harris Public Policy, University of Chicago).
There is widespread concern over the reliability of the statistics used to measure the quality of specialists like teachers or doctors, or institutions like schools and hospitals. One may worry, for instance, that a teacher who scores highly in terms of their “value-added” may simply have more competent students, or a better-rated physician healthier patients. Professor Douglas Staiger discussed his work developing and validating quality indicators that accurately predict the causal effects of the program being measured (such as a teacher or doctor) on future recipients (such as students or patients).
Agenda
Validating Quality Indicators in Healthcare and Education
Joshua Gottlieb, Associate Professor, Harris Public Policy, University of Chicago and Co-Director of BFI’s Health Economics Research Initiative (Moderator)
Douglas Staiger, The John Sloan Dickey Third Century Professor in the Department of Economics, Dartmouth College and BFI’s Ta-Chiung Liu Distinguished Visitor (Speaker)