Episode 5: Padmaja Ayyagari and Medicaid program effects on households' savings

Guest: Padmaja Ayyagari (Associate Professor at University of South Florida)  

Hosts: Prithviraj Basu Mallik and Fanny Tallgren 

Short description:  In this episode Professor Padmaja Ayyagari discusses with us her paper about the Medicaid program applied in the United States. 

Timestamps:

(01:38)- Medicaid (public insurance program in the United States) and paper scope (understand how Medicaid affect household's savings)   

(07:35)- Paper's contribution  

(14:08)- Conclusions and future work to identify the implications of such a program  

(20:36)- Personal experiences across different research contexts (e.g. theoretical and applied research)  

(32:00)- Health economics framework. What could fall in it? "Thinking through"  

(35:24)- What makes a paper good?  

Link: https://sites.google.com/view/padmajaayyagari