NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

HEALTH CARE PROGRAM MEETING

 

Richard Frank, Organizer

 

November 12, 2008

 

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

 

PROGRAM

 

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11:

 

 

 6:30 pm

Group Dinner

 

Legal Sea Foods

 

Kendall Square

 

5 Cambridge Center (corner of 6th and Main Streets)

 

Cambridge, MA

 

 

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12:

 

 

 8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

 8:30 am

MING TAI SEALE, Texas A&M University

 

TOM MCGUIRE, Harvard University

 

Time is Up: The Increasing Shadow Price of Time in Primary Care Office Visits

 

 

 9:25 am

RD CEBUL. Case Western Reserve University

 

JAMES REBITZER, Case Western Reserve University and NBER

 

LOWELL TAYLOR, Carnegie Mellon University

 

MARK VOTRUBA, Case Western Reserve University

 

Unhealthy Insurance Markets: Search Frictions and the Cost and Quality of Health Insurance

 

 

10:20 am

Break

 

 

10:35 am

JONATHAN CLARK, Harvard University

 

ROBERT HUCKMAN, Harvard University and NBER

 

Broadening Focus: Complementarities and the Benefits of Specialization in the Hospital Industry

 

 

11:30 am

CLAUDIO LUCARELLI, Cornell University

 

SEAN NICHOLSON, Cornell University and NBER

 

A Quality Adjusted Price Index for Colorectal Cancer Drugs

 

 

12:25 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:10 pm

AMY FINKESTEIN and DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER

 

MATT NOTOWIDIGDO, MIT

 

Income and Health Spending: Evidence from Oil Price Shocks

 

 

 2:05 pm

GUY DAVID, University of Pennsylvania

 

SARA MARKOWITZ, Emory University and NBER

 

SETH RICHARDS, University of Pennsylvania

 

The Effects of Pharmaceutical Marketing and Promotion on Adverse Drug Events and Regulation

 

 

 3:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11/11/08