NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2008

 

Health Economics Workshop

 

Michael Grossman and Ted Joyce, Organizers

 

July 21 and 22, 2008

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Somerset Room, East Tower

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 21:

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

JASON FLETCHER, Yale University

 

DAVID FRISVOLD, University of Michigan

 

Higher Education and Health Investment: Does More Schooling Affect Preventive Health Care Use?

 

 

 2:00 pm

Break

 

 

 2:15 pm

PINAR KARACA-MANDIC, University of Minnesota

 

GREG RIDGEWAY, RAND Corporation

 

Behavioral Impact of Graduated Driver Licensing on Teenage Driving Risk and Exposure

 

 

 3:15 pm

Break

 

 

 3:30 pm

EMILIA SIMEONOVA, Columbia University

 

Doctors, Patients, and the Racial Gap: What Are the Causes?

 

 

 4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

TUESDAY, JULY 22:

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

JESSICA COHEN, Brookings Institution

 

PASCALINE DUPAS, Dartmouth College

 

Free Distribution or Cost-Sharing? Evidence from a Randomized Malaria Prevention Experiment

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

DAVID BLANCHFLOWER, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

ANDREW OSWALD, University of Warwick

 

Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility

 

 

11:15 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

MICHAEL ANDERSON, UC, Berkeley

 

DAVID MATSA, Northwestern University

 

Are Restaurants Really Supersizing America?

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch and Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5/9/08