THURSDAY, MARCH 13:

6:30 PM Dinner

Davio's Restaurant

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA

FRIDAY, MARCH 14:

7:45 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.

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

8:00 AM Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM DAVID BLOOM, Harvard University and NBER

JAYPEE SEVILLA, Harvard University

Health, Worker Productivity, and Economic Growth

(Joint with David Canning)

9:30 AM Break

9:45 AM JAY BHATTACHARYA, Stanford University and NBER

DARIUS LAKDAWALLA, RAND and NBER

Time-Consistency and Addiction: An Empirical Test

10:45 AM Break

11:00 AM AVI DOR, Case Western Reserve University and NBER

WILLIAM ENCINOSA, Agency for Health Care Research and Quality

Cost-Sharing and Non-Compliance with Prescriptions Drugs

12:00 N Lunch

1:00 PM ROBERT KAESTNER, University of Illinois, Chicago and NBER

TED JOYCE, Baruch College and NBER

SANDERS KORENMAN, Baruch College and NBER

STANLEY HENSHAW, Alan Guttmacher Institute

Changes in Births and Abortions Following Welfare Reform

Over, Please! Health Economics Program, Page 2:

2:00 PM Break

2:15 PM NANCY REICHMAN, Columbia University

HOPE CORMAN, Rider University and NBER

KELLY NOONAN, Rider University

Fragile Families: Effects of Infant Health on Parents' Relationship Status

3:15 PM ANTHONY T. LO SASSO, Northwestern University

THOMAS C. BUCHMUELLER, UC, Irvine and NBER

The Effect of the State Children's Health Insurance Program on Health

Insurance Coverage

4:15 PM Adjourn

3/13/03