NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2007

 

Health Care Workshop

Alan M. Garber, Organizer

 

Health Care/Productiviity/Aging Joint Workshop

Ernst Berndt, David Cutler and Alan M. Garber, Organizers

 

July 26 and 27, 2007

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Parkview Room

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25:

 

 

 6:00 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 26:

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

AMITABH CHANDRA, Harvard University and NBER

 

DOUGLAS STAIGER, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

The Economics of Treatment Disparities in Healthcare

 

 

 9:50 am

Break

 

 

10:05 am

DANA GOLDMAN , RAND Corporation and NBER

 

JOHN A. ROMLEY, RAND Corporation

 

The Cost of Quality in Hospitals:  A Revealed-Preference Approach

 

 

10:55 am

DARIUS LAKDAWALLA and NEERAJ SOOD, RAND Corporation and NBER

 

The Welfare Effects of Public Drug Insurance

 

 

12:00 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

Panel of speakers

 

 

 1:50 pm

Break

 

 

 2:05 pm

FRANK R. LICHTENBERG, Columbia University and NBER

 

The Effect of Chemotherapy Innovation on Cancer Survival, 1991-2003:  State-level Evidence from the SEER-Medicare Linked Database

 

 

 2:55 pm

Break

 

 

3:10 pm

JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER

 

DAVID RODRIGUEZ, MIT

 

How Much Uncompensated Care Do Doctors Provide?

 

 

 4:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

FRIDAY, JULY 27:

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

KYNA FONG, Stanford University

 

MICHAEL SCHWARZ, Yahoo! Research and NBER

 

Toward an Efficient Mechanism for Prescription Drug Procurement

 

 

 9:50 am

Break

 

 

10:05 am

LEEMORE DAFNY, Northwestern University and NBER

 

Are Health Insurance Markets Competitive?  A Test of Direct Price Discrimination

 

 

10:55 am

Break

 

 

11:10 am

RICHARD G. FRANK, Harvard University and NBER

 

KARINE LAMIRAUD, University of Lausanne

 

Choice, Price Competition and Complexity in Markets for Health Insurance

 

 

12:00 pm

RICHARD HIRTH, MARC TURENNE, JACK WHEELER, QING PAN, and JOSEPH MESSANA, University of Michigan

 

Provider Monitoring and Pay-for-Performance When Multiple Providers Affect Outcomes:  An Application to Renal Dialysis  Slides

 

 

 1:00 pm

Lunch and Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

6/15/07