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2016 Calderwood Lecture in Economics Heidi Williams: "Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation"
Heidi Williams–Class of 1957 Career Development Assistant Professor in the MIT Department of Economics–will present at lecture at Wellesley.
Thursday, March 31, 4:15 PM Knapp Atrium in Pendleton East, Wellesley College
Heidi Williams is the Class of 1957 Career Development Assistant Professor in the MIT Department of Economics, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Her research agenda focuses on investigating the causes and consequences of technological change in health care markets. Williams combines finely grained empirical observations and custom-designed data collection methods to build entirely new datasets about technological changes in health care. In addition, her creative methods for determining causal inference, and keen understanding of regulatory law, biological science, and medical research, have allowed her to trace the interplay among institutions, market behavior, and public policy–relevant outcomes.
Heidi received her AB in mathematics from Dartmouth College in 2003, her MSc in development economics from Oxford University in 2004, and her PhD in economics from Harvard in 2010. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2015) as well as an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2015). Her articles have appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, and Journal of Political Economy, among others. She was a Rhodes scholar and was also named as among Glamour Magazine's 2002 ‘Top 10 College Women.’
