NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2001

Health Economics Workshop

Michael Grossman, Organizer

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

August 1, 2001

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1:

8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts

9:00 AM DONALD KENKEL, Cornell University and NBER

DEAN LILLARD, and ALAN MATHIOS, Cornell University

To Quit or Not to Quit:

An Economic Analysis of Women's Smoking Cessation Decisions

10:00 AM Break

10:15 AM ROSALIE LICCARDO PACULA, RAND and NBER

JENNY WILLIAMS, University of Illinois at Chicago

FRANK J. CHALOUPKA, University of Illinois at Chicago and NBER

HENRY WECHSLER, Harvard University

Alcohol and Marijuana Use Amoung College Students:

Economic Complements or Substitutes?

11:15 AM Break

11:30 AM CHRISTOPHER J. RUHM, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and NBER WILLIAM BLACK, Mathematica Policy Research

Does Drinking Really Increase in Bad Times?

12:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM ADRIANA LLERAS-MUNEY, Princeton University

The Relationship Between Education and Mortality: An Analysis for the U.S. Using a Unique Social Experiment

2:30 PM Break

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2:45 PM JOHN CAWLEY, Cornell University, and NBER

Addiction, Calories, and Body Weight

3:45 PM Break

4:00 PM PATRICIA M. ANDERSON Dartmouth College and NBER,

PHILLIP B. LEVINE Wellesley College and NBER

KRISTIN F. BUTCHER Boston College

Maternal Employment and Overweight Children

5:00 PM Adjourn

6:00 PM Clambake

Harvard Faculty Club

20 Quincy St.

Cambridge, MA

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