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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2011

 

Health Care Workshop

(Joint meeting with the Aging group)

 

Jon Gruber, Organizer

 

July 28 - 29, 2011

 

Parkview Room

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

Wednesday, July 27:

6:00 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Thursday, July 28:

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries


9:00 am


Karine Lamiraud, University of Lausanne
Strategic Pricing Behaviors in the Presence of Consumer Inertia: The Case of Health Insurance


10:00 am


Anupam Jena, Harvard University
Tomas Philipson, University of Chicago and NBER
Endogenous Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care Technology Adoption

11:00 am

Break

11:15 am

Pinar Karaca-Mandic, University of Minnesota and NBER
Jean Abraham, University of Minnesota
What Affects Premiums, Claims and Medical Loss Ratios in the Individual Market?

Pinar Karaca-Mandic,
Roger Feldman and Peter Graven, University of Minnesota
The Role of Agents and Brokers in the Market for Health Insurance

12:30 pm

Lunch


1:30 pm


Martin Gaynor, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Carol Propper, University of Bristol
Stephan Seiler, London School of Economics
Free to Choose? Reform and Demand Response in the British National Health Service


2:30 pm


Amanda Kowalski, Yale University and NBER
Estimating the Tradeoff Between Risk Protection and Moral Hazard with a Nonlinear Budget Set Model of Health Insurance

3:30 pm

Break

4:00 pm

Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Sarah Taubman
Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Joseph Newhouse, Harvard University and NBER
Katherine Baicker, Harvard University and NBER
The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the first year

5:00 pm

Adjourn

Friday, July 29:

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries


9:00 am


Joseph Doyle,
Massachusetts of Technology and NBER
John Graves, Harvard University
Jonathan Gruber,
Massachusetts of Technology and NBER
Samuel Kleiner, Cornell University and NBER
Hospital Costs and Outcomes in a Causal Framework


10:00 am


David Meltzer, University of Chicago and NBER
Jeanette Chung, University of Chicago
Coordination, Switching Costs and the Division of Labor in General Medicine:
An Economic Explanation for the Emergence of Hospitalists in the United States


11:00 am

Break


11:15 am





Peter Huckfeldt, RAND Corporation
Neeraj Sood, University of Southern California and NBER
Jose Escarce, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
David Grabowski, Harvard Medical School
Joseph Newhouse, Harvard University and NBER
Provider Reimbursement, Treatment Intensity, and Patient Outcomes: Evidence from the Home Health Interim and Prospective Payment System
&
The Effect of Prospective Payment on Admission and Treatment Policy: Evidence from Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities

12:30 pm

Lunch


1:30 pm


Jeffrey Clemens, Harvard University
Joshua Gottlieb, Harvard University
How Does Medical Practice Respond to Prices? Evidence from Shocks to Medicare Reimbursement Rates


2:30 pm


Leemore Dafny, Northwestern University and NBER
Subramaniam Ramanarayanan, University of California at Los Angeles
Are For-Profit Insurers Different??


3:30 pm


Adjourn