NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2008

 

Health Care/Aging Workshop

Alan Garber, Organizer

 

Aging/Health Care/Productivity Joint Workshop

Ernst Berndt, David Cutler, David Wise, and Alan Garber, Organizers

 

July 24 and 25, 2008

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Parkview Room, East Tower

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, JULY 24:

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

ROBERT TOWN, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

GAUTAM GOWRISANKARAN, University of Arizona and NBER 

 

CLAUDIO LUCARELLI, Cornell University  

 

PHILIPP SCHMIDT-DENGLER, London School of Economics

 

Government Policy and the Dynamics of Market Structure: Evidence from Critical Access Hospitals

  

 

 9:50 am

Break

  

 

10:05 am

KATE BUNDORF, Stanford University and NBER

 

JONATHAN LEVIN, Stanford University and NBER

 

NEALE MAHONEY, Stanford University

 

Pricing and Welfare in Health Plan Choice

 

 

 10:55 am

ELLEN MEARA and RICHARD G. FRANK, Harvard Medical School and NBER

 

The Effect of Maternal Depression and Substance Abuse on ChildrenÂ’s Cognitive, Behavioral, and Educational Outcomes

 

 

12:00 pm

Lunch

 

 

12:45 pm

ALAN GARBER, STANFORD and NBER

 

JONATHAN SKINNER, DARTMOUTH and NBER

 

Is American Health Care Uniquely Inefficient?

 

 

 1:35 pm

AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT and NBER

 

ERZO F.P. LUTTMER, Harvard University and NBER

 

MATT NOTOWIDIGDO, MIT

 

What Good is Wealth Without Health? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption

  

 

2:25 pm

Break

 

 

2:35 pm

KARINE LAMIRAUD, University of Lausanne

 

STEPHANE LHUILLERY, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

 

New Technologies and Medical Costs

 

 

  3:25 pm

DAN KESSLER, Stanford University and NBER

 

JOHN COGAN, Stanford University

 

GLENN HUBBARD, Columbia University and NBER

 

The Effect of Medicare Coverage for the Disabled on the Market for Private Insurance

 

 

 

 

 4:15 pm

Adjourn

 

 

6:00 pm

Dinner Celebration to Thank Martin Feldstein for his Service to the NBER

 

 

FRIDAY, JULY 25:

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

JONATHAN ZINMAN, Innovations for Poverty Action

 

XAVIER GINÉ, The World Bank

 

DEAN KARLAN, Innovations for Poverty Action

 

Put Your Money Where Your Butt Is: A Commitment Savings Account for Smoking Cessation

 

 

 9:50 am

Break

 

 

10:05 am

DAVID BLANCHFLOWER, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

ANDREW J. OSWALD, University of Warwick

 

Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility

 

 

10:55 am

Break

 

 

11:10 am

MARIAN V. WROBEL, Harvard University

 

JEFFREY R. KING, The Brookings Institute and NBER

 

SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN, Harvard University and NBER

 

ELDAR SHAFIR, Princeton University

 

LEE VERMEULEN, University of Wisconsin

 

Misperceived Prices: Medicare Drug Plan Choice

 

 

12:00 pm

JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT Department of Economics

 

How Do Elders Do in Choosing a Part D Plan?

 

 

1:00 pm

Lunch and Adjourn