2026 Will Manning Lecture: Partha Deb, PhD

Title of talk: FLEX: A Unified Framework For Estimating Treatment Effects in Staggered Difference-in-Differences Designs (Abstract)

Partha Deb is Professor of Economics at Hunter College, City University of New York and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received his PhD in Economics at Rutgers University in 1991 and has been faculty at Indiana University Indianapolis, the University of Illinois and, since 2002, at Hunter College at the City University of New York. Professor Deb conducts research in the economics of health and healthcare and in applied econometrics. Professor Deb also conducts multidisciplinary research with collaborators in medicine and nursing. He is the author of 66 articles, a book on health econometrics and several book chapters and is the recipients of several grants.

In 2011, Professor Deb was appointed Senior Advisor at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, tasked with lowering healthcare costs and improving healthcare quality for Americans covered by Medicare or Medicaid. In that role, Professor Deb has helped design and evaluate numerous, large-scale experimental and quasi-experimental interventions in healthcare delivery settings to improve quality of care and lower costs of care.

Professor Deb has a long track record in directly engaging students outside the classroom. In addition to supervision of PhD dissertations and Masters theses, he often collaborates with students (including undergraduate students) on published research.

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