NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

FRONTIERS IN HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH CONFERENCE

David M. Cutler and Alan M. Garber, Organizers

June 24, 2004

The Kaiser Family Foundation

1330 G Street, NW

Washington, DC 20005

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, JUNE 24:

8:00 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:20 AM Opening Remarks

ALAN M. GARBER, Stanford University and NBER

8:30 AM JOHN CAWLEY and KOSALI I. SIMON, Cornell University and NBER

JOHAN MATHIS SCHROEDER, Cornell University

How Did Welfare Reform Affect the Health Insurance Coverage of Women and Children?

9:30 AM FRANK A. SLOAN, Duke University and NBER

JAN OSTERMANN and DEREK S. BROWN, Duke University

The Rising Cost of Medicare and Improvements in Survival and Functioning

Among the U.S. Elderly, 1985-2000

10:30 AM Break

11:00 AM KATHERINE BAICKER and AMITABH CHANDRA, Dartmouth College and NBER

Does the Medical Malpractice Crisis Affect the Delivery of Health Care

12:00 PM Luncheon

1:00 PM DANA P. GOLDMAN, Rand and NBER

NEERAJ SOOD, Rand

ARLEEN LEIBOWITZ, UC, Los Angeles

The Relocation of Compensation In Response To Health Insurance Premium Increases

2:00 PM ERNST R. BERNDT, MIT and NBER

TOMAS PHILIPSON, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and NBER

ADRIAN GOTTSCHALK and MATTHEW STROBECK, MIT

Improving the Efficiency of the Clinical Drug Development Process:

Results from Industry and FDA Interviews

3:00 PM Adjourn

6/8/04