NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

HEALTH CARE PROGRAM MEETING

David Meltzer, Organizer

October 20, 2006

NBER

3^rd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19:

7:30 pm Group Dinner

Legal Sea Foods

Kendall Square

5 Cambridge Center (corner of 6th and Main Streets)

Cambridge, MA

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20:

7:45 am Shuttle Van Departs from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue

8:00 am Continental Breakfast

8:30 am AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT and NBER

Input and Technology Choices in Regulated Industries:

Evidence from the Health Care Sector

(Joint with DARON ACEMOGLU)

9:15 am DARIUS LAKDAWALA and NEERAJ SOOD, The RAND Corporation and NBER

Health Insurance as a Two-Part Pricing Contract

10:00 am Break

10:15 am DHAVAL DAVE, Bentley College and NBER

ROBERT KAESTNER, University of Illinois at Chicago and NBER

Medicare and Health Behaviors

11:00 am JOSHUA GRAFF ZIVIN, Columbia University and NBER

AIDS Treatment and Intrahousehold Resource Allocations:

Children’s Nutrition and Schooling in Kenya

(Joint with HARSHA THIRUMURTHY and MARKUS GOLDSTEIN)

11:45 am Lunch

12:30 PM SEAN NICHOLSON, Cornell University and NBER

MICHAEL WALDMAN, Cornell University

Does Television Cause Autism?

(Joint with NODIR ADILOV)

1:15 pm DAVID MELTZER, University of Chicago and NBER

DOMENICO SALVATORE, Università Bocconi

Sex and Physician Practice Variation

2:00 pm Break

2:15 pm DAVID CUTLER and ROBERT HUCKMAN, Harvard University and NBER

JONATHAN KOLSTAD, Harvard University

Is Entry Efficient When Inputs are Constrained? Lessons from Cardiac Surgery

3:00 pm JOSHUA LERNER, Harvard University and NBER

ULRIKE MALMENDIER, UC, Berkeley and NBER

Contractibility and the Design of Research Agreements

3:45 pm Adjourn

10/16/06