NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

FRONTIERS IN HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH

David Cutler, Alan Garber and Dana Goldman, Organizers

June 11, 2008

Kaiser Family Foundation

Barbara Jordan Conference Center

1330 G Street, NW

Washington, DC 20005

PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11:

8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast

9:00 a.m. KATHERINE BAICKER, Harvard University and NBER

Reform Proposals and the Market for Health Insurance

9:50 a.m. Break

10:00 a.m. ANUPAM JENA, University of Chicago

“Me-Too” Innovation In Pharmaceutical Markets

Joint with John Calfee, Dana Goldman, Tomas Philipson, and Edward Mansley

10:50 a.m. Break

11:00 a.m. WILLIAM VOGT, RAND Corporation and NBER

Hospital Prices in the Wake of the 1990s Merger Wave:

Evidence from California

Joint with Yaa Akosa Antwi and Martin Gaynor

11:50 a.m. Lunch

12:30 p.m. SHERRY GLIED, Columbia University and NBER

ASHWIN PRABHU, Columbia University

The Physician Workforce as an Investment in Human Capital

Joint with Peter Muennig, and Norman Edelman

1:20 p.m. Break

1:30 p.m. PHILLIP B. LEVINE, Wellesley College

Children’s Health and Educational Outcomes

Joint with Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, University of Chicago

2:20 p.m. Adjourn

5/14/08