NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2005

 

Health Economics Workshop

 

Michael Grossman, Organizer

 

July 25 and 26, 2005

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 25:

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

JOHN CAWLEY, Cornell University and NBER

 

CHAD MEYEROEFER, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

 

DAVID NEWHOUSE, International Monetary Fund

 

The Impact of State Physical Education Requirements on Youth Physical Activity and Overweight

 

 

 2:00 pm

Break

 

 

 2:15 pm

DARIUS LAKDAWALLA and NEERAJ SOOD, RAND Corporation and NBER

 

Insurance and Innovation in Health Care Markets

 

 

 3:15 pm

Break

 

 

 3:30 pm

ROSALIE PACULA, RAND and NBER

 

BEAU KILMER, Harvard University

 

MICHAEL GROSSMAN, City University of New York and NBER

 

FRANK CHALOUPKA, University of Illinois at Chicago and NBER

 

The Relationship between Marijuana Policy and Marijuana Markets in the United States

 

 

 4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

TUESDAY, JULY 26:

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

JUNE O’NEILL, Baruch College and NBER

 

DAVID O’NEILL, Baruch College

 

Observational Studies of the Effects of Health Insurance on Health: Evidence from Four Data Sets

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

JEFFREY MIRON, Boston University and NBER

 

A Critique of Estimates of the Economic Costs of Drug Abuse

 

 

11:15 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

ANDREW LEIGH, Australian National University

 

CHRISTOPHER JENCKS, Harvard University

 

Inequality and Health: Long-Run Evidence from a Panel of Countries

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch and Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

5/6/05