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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2012

Health Economics Workshop

Michael Grossman and Ted Joyce, Organizers

July 23 - 24, 2012

Hotel Marlowe

Muse Ballroom

25 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

Monday, July 23:

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 


1:00 pm


Achyuta Adhvaryu, Yale University
Anant Nyshadham, Yale University
Healthcare Choices, Information and Health Outcomes

 

 

2:00 pm

Break

 


2:15 pm


Peter A. Savelyev, Vanderbilt University
Conscientiousness, Education, and Longevity of High Ability Individuals
 

 

3:15 pm

Break

 


3:30 pm


Christopher Carpenter, University of California at Irvine and NBER
Carlos Dobkin, University of California at Santa Cruz and NBER
Casey Warman, Dalhousie University
How Do Minimum Legal Drinking Ages Work? Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Canada

 

 

4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

Tuesday, July 24:

 


8:30 am


Continental Breakfast

 


9:00 am


Joshua Robinson,
University of Alabama at Birmingham
The Effects of Asymmetric and Symmetric Fetal Growth Restriction on Human Capital Development
 

 

10:00 am

10:15 am

Break

Tomas Rau, Catholic University of Chile
Loreto Reyes, Ministry of Finance, Chile
Sergio S. Urzua, University of Maryland and NBER
Early Lead Exposure and Its Effects on Academic Achievement and Earnings: Evidence from a Environmental Negligence
 

 

11:15 am

Break

 


11:30 am


Ming-Jen Lin National Taiwan University
Elaine Liu, University of Houston
Does “in Utero” Exposure to Illness Matter? The 1918 Influenza Epidemic in Taiwan as a Natural Experiment

 

12:30 pm

Lunch and Adjourn