NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2006

 

Health Care and Aging//Health Care/Health Care, Aging and Productivity

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Parkview Room

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

July 27 and 28, 2006

 

PROGRAM

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 26:

 

 

 6:00 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 27:

 

 

Health Care/Aging

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

DAVID H. HOWARD and KENNETH E. THORPE, Emory University

 

SUSAN BUSCH, Yale University

 

Understanding Recent Trends in Chronic Disease Treatment Rates: Are we Getting Sicker or Getting Screened?

 

 

 9:50 am

NICOLE MAESTAS, RAND Corporation

 

MATHIS SCHROEDER, Cornell University

 

DANA GOLDMAN, RAND Corporation and NBER

 

Price Variation in Markets with Homogenous Goods: The Case of Medigap

 

 

10:40 am

Break

 

 

Health Care

 

 

10:55 am

M. KATE BUNDORF, Stanford University and NBER

 

MELINDA HENNE, Stanford University

 

LAURENCE BAKER, Stanford University and NBER

 

Health Insurance, Infertility Treatment, and Birth Outcomes

 

 

11:45 am

KARINE LAMIRAUD and ALBERTO HOLLY, IEMS

 

ESTELLE MARTIN, University Hospital of Switzerland

 

KONRADE VON BREMEN, IEMS

 

The Impact of Information on Patient Preferences in Different Delivery Patterns (Prescription versus OTC Drugs)

 

 

12:35 pm

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 1:15 pm

JON GRUBER and Invited Panelists

 

Massachusetts Health Insurance Plan

 

 

 2:15 pm

Break

 

 

 2:30 pm

RUCKER JOHNSON, UC, Berkeley

 

ROBERT SCHOENI, University of Michigan

 

Economic Status in Childhood, Birth Weight, and Adult Health and Labor Market Outcomes

 

 

 3:20 pm

Break

 

 

 3:35 pm

EMMA HALL, Department of Health

 

CAROL PROPPER, University of Bristol

 

JOHN VAN REENEN, London School of Economics

 

Can Pay Regulation Kill? Panel Data Evidence on the Effect of Labor Markets and Skills on Hospital Quality and Productivity

 

 

 4:25 pm

Adjourn

 

 

FRIDAY, JULY 28:

 

 

Health Care/Aging/Productivity

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

GAUTAM GOWRISANKARAN, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER

 

VIVIAN HO, Rice University

 

ROBERT TOWN, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

Causality, Learning, and Forgetting in Surgery

 

 

 9:50 am

Break

 

 

10:05 am

MICHAEL LAW and KAREN GRÉPIN, Harvard University

 

Newer is Not Always Better: Reevaluating the Benefits of Newer Pharmaceuticals

 

 

10:55 am

Break

 

 

11:10 am

RANDALL LUTTER, Food and Drug Administration

 

ARTHUR E. HASS, Food and Drug Administration – currently retired

 

ALLAN BEGOSH, JOHN GOLDSMITH, and DENNIS HILL,

 

Food and Drug Administration

 

Improvements in the Effectiveness of FDA’s Drug Safety Program: Insights from the Timing of Label Warnings

 

 

12:00 pm

Lunch and Adjourn

 

 

6/4/06