NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.



SUMMER INSTITUTE 2000



Health Care

Alan Garber, Organizer



Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts



August 3 and August 4, 2000



PRELIMINARY PROGRAM



WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2:



6:00 PM Clambake

Harvard Faculty Club

20 Quincy Street

Cambridge, MA



THURSDAY, AUGUST 3:

8:00 AM Coffee and Doughnuts



8:30 AM MICHAEL CHERNEW, University of Michigan and NBER

GARY SOLON and CATHERINE MCCLAUGHLIN, University of Michigan

DENNIS SCANLON, Pennsylvania State University

The Impact of Health Plan Report Cards on Managed Care Enrollment



ERNST BERNDT, Harvard University and NBER

WILLIAM CROWN and DAVINA LING, MedStat

STAN FINKELSTEIN, MIT

JAMES RUSSELL, UT Medical Branch

Economic Issues in Comparing Antidepressant Drug Therapy,

Psychotherapy, and their Combination for the Treatment of Chronic

Depressions



HELEN LEVY, University of Chicago and NBER

The Incidence of Employer-Sponsored Health Care Costs



VICTOR FUCHS and MARK MCCLELLAN, Stanford University and NBER

The Determinants of Health and Medical Utilization of the Elderly



12:30 PM Lunch



1:30 PM JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER

ROBIN MCKNIGHT, MIT

Why are Employee Health Insurance Contributions Rising?











ELLIOT FISHER, Dartmouth College

JONATHAN SKINNER, Dartmouth College and NBER

JACK WENNBERG, Dartmouth College

The Efficiency of Medicare



KAREN EGGLESTON, Harvard University

RICHARD ZECKHAUSER, Harvard University and NBER

Ownership and Contracting for Health Care



4:30 PM Adjourn



FRIDAY, AUGUST 4:



8:00 AM Coffee and Doughnuts



8:30 AM LAURENCE BAKER and MARK MCCLELLAN, Stanford University and NBER

The Impact of Managed Care on Treatment Patterns of Cancer Patients



JEANETTE CHUNG,, University of Chicago

DAVID MELTZER, University of Chicago and NBER

Effects of Competition under Prospective Payment on Hospital Costs among

High and Low Cost Admissions: Evidence from California, 1983-1993



MARK STABILE, University of Toronto

The Role of Tax Subsidies in the Market for Health Insurance



12:30 PM Lunch and Adjourn



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