August 3 and August 4, 2000
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2:
6:00 PM Clambake
Harvard Faculty Club
20 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA
THURSDAY, AUGUST 3:
8:00 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
8:30 AM MICHAEL CHERNEW, University of Michigan and NBER
GARY SOLON and CATHERINE MCCLAUGHLIN, University of Michigan
DENNIS SCANLON, Pennsylvania State University
The Impact of Health Plan Report Cards on Managed Care Enrollment
ERNST BERNDT, Harvard University and NBER
WILLIAM CROWN and DAVINA LING, MedStat
STAN FINKELSTEIN, MIT
JAMES RUSSELL, UT Medical Branch
Economic Issues in Comparing Antidepressant Drug Therapy,
Psychotherapy, and their Combination for the Treatment of Chronic
Depressions
HELEN LEVY, University of Chicago and NBER
The Incidence of Employer-Sponsored Health Care Costs
VICTOR FUCHS and MARK MCCLELLAN, Stanford University and NBER
The Determinants of Health and Medical Utilization of the Elderly
12:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER
ROBIN MCKNIGHT, MIT
Why are Employee Health Insurance Contributions Rising?
ELLIOT FISHER, Dartmouth College
JONATHAN SKINNER, Dartmouth College and NBER
JACK WENNBERG, Dartmouth College
KAREN EGGLESTON, Harvard University
RICHARD ZECKHAUSER, Harvard University and NBER
Ownership and Contracting for Health Care
4:30 PM Adjourn
FRIDAY, AUGUST 4:
8:00 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
8:30 AM LAURENCE BAKER and MARK MCCLELLAN, Stanford University and NBER
The Impact of Managed Care on Treatment Patterns of Cancer Patients
JEANETTE CHUNG,, University of Chicago
DAVID MELTZER, University of Chicago and NBER
Effects of Competition under Prospective Payment on Hospital Costs among
High and Low Cost Admissions: Evidence from California, 1983-1993
MARK STABILE, University of Toronto
The Role of Tax Subsidies in the Market for Health Insurance
12:30 PM Lunch and Adjourn
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