NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2002

Productivity/Health Care Joint Workshop

Ernst Berndt, David Cutler, Alan Garber, Organizers

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

August 1, 2002

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

THURSDAY, AUGUST 1:

8:30 AM Coffee and Pastries

9:00 AM BRIGITTE DORMONT and CARINE MILCENT, University of Paris

Prospective payment Systems and hospital heterogeneity

9:45 AM ALISON EVANS CUELLAR, Columbia University

PAUL GERTLER, UC, Berkeley and NBER

Strategic Integration of Hospitals and Physicians

10:30 AM Break

10:45 AM KATHLEEN CAREY, Boston University

AVI DOR, Case Western Reserve University and NBER

Hospital Inefficiency and the Form of the Managerial Contract

11:30 AM DAVINA LING, Harvard University

RICHARD FRANK, Harvard University and NBER

ERNST BERNDT, MIT and NBER

Behavioral Health Carve-Outs and New Technology:

The Case of Cost-Shifting and Diffusion of New Pharmaceuticals in

Medicaid Populations

12:15 PM Lunch

1:30 PM HILARY HOYNES, UC, Davis and NBER

MARIANNE BITLER, RAND

JONAH GELBACH, University of Maryland

The Impact of Welfare Reform on the Health of Families with Children

2:15 PM MARK DUGGAN, University of Chicago and NBER

The Impact of State Government Policies to Control Medicaid Prescription

Drug Spending

3:00 PM Adjourn

NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2002

Health Care Workshop

Alan Garber, Organizer

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

August 2, 2002

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

FRIDAY, AUGUST 2:

8:30 AM Coffee and Pastries

9:00 AM ELLEN MEARA, Harvard University and NBER

Medicare and Changes in the Health of the Elderly Over Time

9:45 AM JONATHAN SKINNER and

DOUGLAS STAIGER, Dartmouth College and NBER

Racial Differences in Hospital Quality for the Treatment of Acute Myocardial

Infarction: Evidence from the Medicare Population

10:30 AM Break

10:45 AM HELEN LEVY, University of Chicago and NBER

THOMAS DELEIRE, University of Chicago

What Do People Buy When They Don't Buy Health Insurance?

11:30 AM Lunch and Adjourn

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