NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Health Care Program Meeting

Alan Garber, Organizer

October 26, 2001

NBER, Offices

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26:

8:00 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.

8:15 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.

8:00 AM Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM MICHAEL BAKER and MARK STABILE, University of Toronto and NBER

CATHERINE DERI, University of Toronto

9:30 AM MARK DUGGAN, University of Chicago and NBER

Can the Private Sector Improve the Efficiency of Government Programs?

Evidence from Medicaid Managed Care

10:30 AM Break

10:45 AM ERNST BERNDT, MIT and NBER

JULIE DONOHUE and ARNOLD EPSTEIN, Harvard University

RICHARD FRANK, Harvard University and NBER

MEREDITH ROSENTHAL, Harvard University

Economics of Direct to Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs

11:45 AM Lunch

12:45 PM KAREN EGGLESTON, Tufts University

NOLAN MILLER, Harvard University

RICHARD ZECKHAUSER, Harvard University and NBER

1:45 PM Break

2:00 PM JASON BARRO, Harvard University and NBER

ROBERT HUCKMAN, Harvard University

Returns to Hospital Advertising

3:00 PM Adjourn

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