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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2014

Health Economics Workshop

Michael Grossman and Ted Joyce, Organizers

July 21 – 22, 2014

Hotel Marlowe

Muse Ballroom

25 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

 

Monday, July 21:

12:00 n

Lunch

1:00 pm

Philip DeCicca, McMaster University and NBER
Donald S. Kenkel, Cornell University and NBER
Feng Liu, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Hua Wang
De Gustibus Est Disputandum: Regulating the Taste of Cigarettes

2:00 pm

Break

2:15 pm

Ryan D. Edwards, Queens College, CUNY and NBER
If My Blood Pressure Is High, Do I Take It to Heart? Behavioral Impacts of Biomarker Collection in the Health and Retirement Study

3:15 pm

Break

3:30 pm

Jorge Aguero, University of Connecticut
Trinidad Beleche,
Food and Drug Administration
Did the Swine Flu Save Lives? Evidence from Mexico

4:30 pm

Adjourn

Tuesday, July 22:

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

9:00 am

Gabriella Conti, University College London and NBER
Beyond Birthweight: The Origins of Health Capital

10:00 am

Break

10:15 am

Petra Persson, Stanford University
Maya Rossin-Slater, University of California at Santa Barbara
Family Ruptures and Intergenerational Transmission of Stress

11:15 am

Break

11:30 am

Chih Ming Tan, University of North Dakota
Zhibo Tan, Peking University
Xiaobo Zhang, International Food Policy Research Institute
Sins of the Fathers: The Intergenerational Legacy of the 1959-61 Great Chinese Famine on Children's Cognitive Development

12:30 pm

Lunch and Adjourn