NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2001
Productivity/Health Care/Health Outcomes Joint Workshop
Alan Garber, Ernst R. Berndt, David M. Cutler, and Mark McClellan,
Organizers
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, Massachusetts
August 2-3, 2001
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
THURSDAY, AUGUST 2:
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER
Taxation and Health Insurance
9:45 AM SANDRA DECKER, International Longevity Center and NBER
The U.S. Medicare Program and Socioeconomic Differences in Health
10:30 AM Break
10:45 AM JOHN MULLAHY, University of Wisconsin and NBER
Live Long, Live Well: Quantifying the Health of Heterogeneous Populations
11:30 AM THOMAS MROZ, University of North Carolina
DONNA GILLESKIE, University of North Carolina and NBER
Estimating the Effects of Covariates on Health Expenditures
12:15 PM Lunch
1:30 PM AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT
Minimum Standards and Health Insurance Regulation: The Case of Medigap
2:15 PM LAURENCE BAKER, Stanford University and NBER
The Effect of Implementing Medicaid Managed Care on Health Outcomes for High-Risk Newborns
3:00 PM Break
SI PRHC Program
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3:30 PM DAVID MELTZER, University of Chicago and NBER
WILLARD MANNING and JEANETTE MORRISON, University of Chicago
4:45 PM Adjourn
FRIDAY, AUGUST 3:
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM STEPHANE JACOBZONE, M. JEE-HUGUES, P. MOISE and
L. MOON, OECD
Can We Open the Black Box of Health Care Systems Through Understanding Their Effects on Aging-Related Diseases?
9:45 AM SUSHIL BIKHCHANDANI, AMITABH CHANDRA, DANA GOLDMAN, RAND Corp.
IVO WELCH, Yale University and NBER
Physician Learning, Informational Cascades and Geographic Variation in Medical Practice
10:30 AM Break
10:45 AM GAUTUM GOWRISANKARAN, University of Minnesota and NBER
ROBERT TOWN, UC, Irvine
Does Competition Kill? Hospital Quality and Competition
11:30 AM ROBERT HUCKMAN, Harvard University
Hospital Consolidation and the Delivery of Cardiac Care
12:15 PM ABIGAIL TAY, Columbia University
Using Patient Outcomes to Assess Hospital Quality
1:00 PM Lunch and Adjourn
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