NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

HEALTH CARE PROGRAM MEETING

Douglas Staiger, Organizer

May 5, 2006

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

THURSDAY, MAY 4:

6:30 pm Group Dinner

Legal Sea Foods

Kendall Square

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

Cambridge, MA

FRIDAY, MAY 5:

7:45 am Shuttle Van Departs from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Ave.

8:00 am Continental Breakfast

8:30 am AMITABH CHANDRA, Harvard University and NBER

JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER

ROBIN MCKNIGHT, University of Oregon and NBER

Medical Price Sensitivity and Optimal Health Insurance for the Elderly

9:25 am SEAN NICHOLSON, Cornell University and NBER

Specialization and Sorting in the Obstetrics Market

(Joint with ANDREW EPSTEIN and JONATHAN KETCHAM)

10:20 am Break

10:35 am TOMAS PHILIPSON, University of Chicago and NBER

ANUPAM JENA, University of Chicago

Surplus Appropriation from R&D and Health Care Technology Assessment Procedures

11:30 am LEEMORE DAFNY, Northwestern University and NBER

DAVID DRANOVE, Northwestern University

Regulatory Exploitation and the Market for Corporate Control

12:25 pm Lunch

1:10 pm AVI DOR, Case Western Reserve University and NBER

WILLIAM ENCINOSA, AHRQ

Does Cost-Sharing Affect Compliance?

Insurance and the Market for Prescription Drugs.

addendum

2:05 pm DAVID CUTLER, Harvard University and NBER

ANGUS DEATON and ADRIANA LLERAS-MUNEY,

Princeton University and NBER

The Determinants of Mortality

3:00 pm Adjourn

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