NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

HEALTH CARE PROGRAM MEETING

Kate Bundorf and Mark Pauly, Organizers

May 8, 2008

NBER

3^rd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY, MAY 7:

6:30 pm Group Dinner

Legal Sea Foods

Kendall Square

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

Cambridge, MA

THURSDAY, MAY 8:

7:15 am Shuttle van leaves from the Royal Sonesta Hotel

7:30 am Continental Breakfast

8:00 am MARK DUGGAN, University of Maryland and NBER

FIONA SCOTT MORTON, Yale University and NBER

The Effects of Medicare Part D on Pharmaceutical Prices and Utilization

9:00 am HELEN LEVY, University of Michigan and NBER

DAVID WEIR, University of Michigan

The Impact of Medicare Part D on Drug Utilization and Out-of-Pocket

Spending:  Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

10:00 am Break

10:15 am JAY BHATTACHARYA, Stanford University and NBER

MIKKO PACKALEN, University of Waterloo

The Other Ex-Ante Moral Hazard in Health

11:15 am Break

11:30 am LIRAN EINAV, Stanford University

AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT and NBER

MARK CULLEN, Yale University

Using Price Variation to Estimate Welfare in Insurance Markets

12:30 pm Lunch

1:00 pm GUY DAVID, University of Pennsylvania

TANGUY BRACHET, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Human Capital Accumulation and Forgetting in Emergency Medical Services (not available to download at this time)

2:00 pm MIREILLE JACOBSON, UC, Irvine

TOM CHANG, MIT

Ownership Status and Response to Cost Shocks:

Evidence from California's Seismic Retrofit Mandate

3:00 pm Adjourn

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