NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
HEALTH CARE PROGRAM MEETING
Alan Garber, Organizer
May 3, 2002
NBER, Offices,
3rd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts
FRIDAY, MAY 3:
7:30 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.
7:45 AM Continental Breakfast
8:00 AM SHERRY A. GLIED, Columbia University and NBER
DAHLIA K. REMLER and JOSHUA GRAFF ZIVIN, Columbia University
Modeling Health Insurance Expansions: Effects of Alternate Approaches
9:00 AM FRANK R. LICHTENBERG, Columbia University and NBER
The Effect of Changes in Drug Utilization on Labor Supply
and per Capita Output
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM JAY BHATTACHARYA, Stanford University
DARIUS LAKDAWALLA, Rand Corporation and NBER
MICHAEL SCHOENBAUM, Rand Corporation
11:15 AM Break
11:30 AM MARK DUGGAN, University of Chicago and NBER
Does Contracting Out Increase the Efficiency of Government Programs?
Evidence from Medicaid HMOs
12:30 PM Lunch
1:00 PM MARK PAULY, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
BRADLEY J. HERRING, Yale University
The Demand For Health Insurance in the Group Setting:
Can You Always Get What You Want?
2:00 PM NANCY BEAULIEU and DAVID M. CUTLER, Harvard University and NBER
KATHERINE E. HO, Harvard University
Why Quality is So Poor?
3:00 PM Adjourn
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