NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2007

 

Health Economics Workshop

 

Michael Grossman and Ted Joyce, Organizers

 

July 23 and 24, 2007

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Skyline ABC

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 23:

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

NAVA ASHRAF, Harvard University

 

JAMES BERRY, MIT

 

JESSE SHAPIRO, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia

 

 

 2:00 pm

Break

 

 

 2:15 pm

CRISTIAN POP-ELECHES and JOSHUA GRAFF ZIVIN, Columbia University and NBER

 

MARCUS GOLDSTEIN, The World Bank

 

JAMES HABYARIMANA, Georgetown University

 

HARSHA THIRUMURTHY, Center for Global Development

 

AIDS Treatment Programs  and Sexual Behavior

 

 

 3:15 pm

Break

 

 

 3:30 pm

JASON FLETCHER, Yale University

 

STEVEN LEHRER, Queen’s University and NBER

 

Using Gene Lotteries within Families to Examine the Causal Impact of Poor Health on Academic Achievement

 

 

 4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

TUESDAY, JULY 24:

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

DAMON CLARK, University of Florida

 

HEATHER ROYER, Case Western Reserve University

 

The Effect of Education on Adult Mortality and Health: Evidence from the United Kingdom

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

DARIUS LAKDAWALLA, RAND Corporation and NBER

 

SETH SEABURY, RAND Corporation

 

Malpractice Liability and Medical Costs

 

 

11:15 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

PIERO CIPOLLONE, Bank of Italy

 

DEBORA RADICCHIA, ISFOL

 

ALFONSO ROSOLIA, Bank of Italy

 

The Effect of Education on Youth Mortality

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch and Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6/1/07