NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.


Health Care Program Meeting

March 8 and 9, 2012

Jonathan Gruber, Organizer

 

Joint Health Care Program and Environmental and Energy Economics Program Meeting

March 9, 2012

Jonathan Gruber, Don Fullerton and Nolan Miller, Organizers

 

Environmental and Energy Economics Program Meeting

March 9 and 10, 2012

Don Fullerton and Nolan Miller, Organizers

 

NBER

Feldstein Conference Room – 2nd Floor

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts


PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

Thursday, March 8:

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

Health Care Program Meeting

 

 

1:00 pm

Charles J. Courtemanche, University of Louisville and NBER
Daniela Zapata, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Does Universal Coverage Improve Health? The Massachusetts Experience

Discussant: TBA

 

2:00 pm

Break

 

 

2:15 pm

Subramaniam Ramanarayanan, University of California at Los Angeles
Jason Snyder, University of California at Los Angeles
Reputations and Firm Performance: Evidence from the Dialysis Industry

Discussant: TBA

 

3:15 pm

Break

 

 

Panel Discussion: 

Bernard Tyson, President and COO of Kaiser Permanente

Gary Gottlieb, President and CEO of Partners Healthcare

Ralph de la Torre, President and CEO of Steward Health Care

 

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

6:00 pm

Group Dinner – Location TBA

 

Friday, March 9:

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

Health Care Program Meeting (cont.)

 

9:00 am

Amanda Starc, University of Pennsylvania
Insurer Pricing and Consumer Welfare: Evidence from Medigap

Discussant: TBA

 

 

10:00 am

Vivian Wu, University of Southern California
Yu-Chu Shen, Naval Postgraduate School and NBER
The Long-term Impact of Medicare Payment Reductions on Patient Outcomes

 

Discussant: TBA

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

Jason Abaluck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

Dynamics of Plan Choice in Medicare Part D

 

 

Discussant: TBA

 

12:30 pm

Adjourn

 

Joint Health Care Program and Environmental and Energy Economics Program Meeting

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

1:30 pm

Garth Heutel, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and NBER

 

Christopher Ruhm, University of Virginia and NBER

 

Air Pollution and Procyclical Mortality

 

 

Discussant: TBA

 

2:30 pm

Jesse Antilla-Hughes, Columbia University
Solomon Hsiang, Princeton University

 

Destruction, Disinvestment, and Death:  Economic and Human Losses Following Environmental Disaster

 

 

Discussant:  TBA

 

3:30 pm

Break

 

4:00 pm

Ester Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Michael Greenstone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Rema Hanna, Harvard University

 

Up in Smoke:  The Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves

 

 

Discussant: TBA

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

6:00 pm

Group Dinner – Location TBA

 

Saturday, March 10:

 

Environmental and Energy Economics Program Meeting

 

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

8:30 am

Christopher Knittel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

Ryan Sandler, University of California-Davis

 

Cleaning the Bathwater with the Baby: The Health Co-Benefits of Carbon Pricing in Transportation

 

 

Discussant: TBA

 

9:30 am

Break

 

9:45 am

Prashant Bharadwaj, University of California at San Diego

 

Joshua S. Graff Zivin, University of California at San Diego and NBER

 

Christopher Neilson, Yale University

 

Feeling the Heat? Climate Change and Human Capital

 

 

Discussant: TBA

 

10:45 am

Break

 

11:00 am

Hunt Allcott, New York University and NBER

 

Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University and NBER

 

Dmitry Taubinsky, Harvard University

 

Externalities, Internalities, and the Targeting of Energy Policy

 

 

Discussant: TBA

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

12:30 pm

Harrison Fell, Colorado School of Mines

 

William A. Pizer, Duke University and NBER

 

Ian MacKenzie, ETH Zurich

 

Prices versus Quantities versus Bankable Quantities

 

 

Discussant: TBA

 

1:30 pm

Adjourn