THURSDAY, APRIL 6:

6:30 PM Dinner

Legal Sea Foods

Kendall Square

5 Cambridge Center

Cambridge, MA

FRIDAY, APRIL 7:

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 CHRISTOPHER CARPENTER, UC, Irvine and

How Do Workplace Smoking Laws Work?

9:30 AM Break

9:45 AM JOHN VERNON, University of Connecticut and NBER

REXFORD SANTERRE, University of Connecticut

Consumer Welfare Implications of the Nursing Home Ownership Mix

10:45 AM Break

11:00 AM CARLOS DOBKIN, UC, Santa Cruz and NBER

STEVEN PULLER, Texas A&M University

The Effects of Government Transfers on Monthly Cycles of Drug Abuse, Crime and Mortality

12:00 N Lunch

1:00 PM DOUGLAS ALMOND, Columbia University and NBER

BHASHKAR MAZUMDER, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

How Did Compulsory Schooling Reduce Mortality Risk Among the Elderly?

2:00 PM Break

HEALTH ECONOMICS PROGRAM, PAGE 2:

2:15 PM WILLIAM EVANS, University of Maryland and NBER

HENG WEI, University of Maryland

Postpartum Hospital Stay and the Outcomes of Mothers and Newborns

3:15 PM JENS LUDWIG, Georgetown University and NBER

DAVE MARCOTTE, University of Maryland

KAREN NORBERG, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER

Anti-Depressants and Suicide