NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2010
Health Care Workshop
(Joint meeting with the Aging group)
Jon Gruber, Organizer
July 29 and 30, 2010
Royal Sonesta Hotel Parkview
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, Massachusetts
PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY, JULY 28:
6:30 pm	Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
THURSDAY, JULY 29:
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Darius Lakdawalla and Neeraj Sood, University of Southern California and NBER
	Qian Gu, University of Southern California
	Pharmaceutical Advertising and Medicare Part D
10:00 am	Susan Busch, Yale University
	Ezra Golberstein, Harvard University
	Ellen Meara, Harvard University and NBER
	FDA and ABCs: Unintended Consequences of Antidepressant Warnings on Academic Achievement
11:00 am	Break
11:30 am	Laurence Baker, Stanford University and NBER
	Physician Acquisition of MRI, Use of MRI, and an Estimate of the Effects of MRI Procedures on Spending
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Erin Johnson, UC, Berkeley
	Ability, Learning and the Career Path of Cardiac Specialists
2:30 pm	Stephen T. Parente, University of Minnesota
	Robert Town, University of Minnesota and NBER
	The Impact of Retail Clinics on Cost, Utilization and Welfare
3:30 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Jason Brown, Department of the Treasury
	Mark Duggan, University of Maryland and NBER
	Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University and NBER
	William Woolston, Stanford University
	Can Risk Adjustment Reduce Selection in the Private Health Insurance Market? New Evidence from the Medicare Advantage Program
FRIDAY, JULY 30:
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Martin Gaynor, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
	Carol Propper, University of Bristol
	Rodrigo Moreno. Imperial College
	Death by Market Power Reform, Competition and Patient Outcomes in the National Health Service
10:00 am	Jonathan Kolstad, University of Pennsylvania
	Amanda E. Kowalski, Yale University and NBER
	The Impact of an Individual Health Insurance Mandate on Hospital and Preventive Care: Evidence from Massachusetts
11:00 am	Break
11:30 am	Gautam Gowrisankaran, University of Arizona and NBER
	Claudio Lucarelli, Cornell University
	Philip Schmidt-Dengler, London School of Economics
	Robert Town, University of Minnesota and NBER
	Government Policy and the Dynamics of Market Structure: Evidence from Critical Access Hospitals
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Frank Lichtenberg, Columbia University and NBER
	Has Medical Innovation Reduced Cancer Mortality?
2:30 pm	Daron Acemoglu and Amy Finkelstein, MIT and NBER
	Matthew J. Notowidigdo, MIT
	Income and Health Spending: Evidence from Oil Price Shocks
3:30 pm	Adjourn
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