Economics of Mental Health Workshop 2024
The Economics of Mental Health Workshop 2024 will be hosted by Ezra Golberstein at the University of Minnesota from the 7th to the 8th of August 2024. We are grateful for generous funding from the Joachim-Herz Foundation. Keynotes will be delivered by Susan Busch (Yale) and Daniel Eisenberg (UCLA).
We strongly encourage junior researchers to submit, including advanced doctoral students. We also invite applications from scholars outside of economics interested in the economics of mental health such as scholars from psychology, public health, health service research, etc. Empirical analyses in this field are especially encouraged for submission, but theoretical work is also welcome. The workshop is not the correct venue for cost-effectiveness analyses, pure costing analyses or qualitative work.
Please submit full papers by the 15th of May to events@cinch.uni-due.de *AND* fill out the registration form.
Workshop logistics
The workshop has:
no fee
accommodation is covered for submitting authors
one dinner, breakfast and lunch are covered, one dinner is pay-your-own-way
limited travel support is available for scholars based in Germany and the US, nationality is irrelevant, in line with the aim of the Joachim-Herz Foundation to support US-German cooperation, see the registration form for further information.
Workshop format
The expectation is that all participants have at least skimmed all papers.
Note that discussants present *AND* discuss papers.
It is up to the discussant whether the presentation and discussion happen sequentially or simultaneously;
Discussants and authors should not share and discuss updated papers; only the version made available to all participants should be discussed.
The paper authors then have a few minutes to clarify important issues if they believe the discussant unintentionally misrepresented their work. Ideally, this time is not used to increase the involvement of the audience.
The audience then has time to give their critical and constructive feedback on the presented work.
The role of the session chair is threefold
to enforce the time limits
to keep the ball rolling if the discussion gets stuck, it helps if chairs prepare some questions for this case
to ensure the audience asks constructive questions related to the presented work or at least the same research field – monologues or tangents are not appreciated
This format has been trialed and tested for over 50 years in the UK Health Economists’ Study Group, 40 years in the Nordic Health Economists’ Study group, and, more recently, the lowlands Health Economists’ Study Group and others venues.
The format does not apply to keynotes, which are presentations followed by Q&A.
If you have questions, please email events@cinch.uni-due.de.