NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

 

 

FRONTIERS IN HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH

 

 

 

David Cutler, Alan Garber, Dana Goldman and William Vogt, Organizers

 

 

 

October 14, 2009

 

 

 

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

 

Barbara Jordan Conference Center

 

1330 G Street, NW

 

Washington, DC 20005

 

 

 

PROGRAM

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2009

 

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

GABRIEL ARANOVICH, UC, San Francisco

 

JAY BHATTACHARYA, ALAN GARBER, and THOMAS MACURDY,

 

                                                                              Stanford University and NBER

 

Coping with Chronic Disease: Chronic Disease and Disability in the Elderly American Population 1982-1999

 

 

9:45 am

MURRAY AITKEN, IMS Health

 

MARK TRUSHEIM, MIT

 

ERNST BERNDT, MIT and NBER

 

Characterizing Markets for Biopharmaceutical Innovation: Do Biologic Differ from Small Molecules?

 

 

10:30 am

GARY BURTLESS, Brookings Institution

 

Health Care, Health Insurance, and the Distribution of American Incomes

 

 

11:15 am

KENNETH CHAY, Brown University and NBER

 

DAEHO KIM and SHAILENDER SWAMINATHAN, Brown University  

 

Medicare, Hospital Utilization and Mortality: Evidence from the Program’s Origins

 

 

12:00 pm

Lunch

 

 

12:45 pm

TOMAS PHILIPSON, University of Chicago and NBER

 

ERIC SUN, University of Chicago

 

DANA GOLDMAN, University of Southern California and NBER

 

A Re-Examination of the Costs of Medical R&D

 

 

1:30 pm

LINDSEY LEININGER, University of Wisconsin

 

HELEN LEVY, University of Michigan

 

DIANE WHITMORE, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Consequences of Public Health Insurance Expansions for Household Well-Being

 

 

2:15 pm

Adjourn

 

 

10/5/09