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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

HEALTH ECONOMIC PROGRAM MEETING

Michael Grossman and Theodore Joyce, Organizers

May 8, 2009

NBER

2^nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, MAY 7:

6:30 pm Dinner

Legals Sea Foods

Kendall Square

5 Cambridge Center

Cambridge, MA 02139

FRIDAY, MAY 8:

7:45 am Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass Avenue

8:00 am Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass Avenue

8:00 am Continental Breakfast

8:30 am JOSHUA D. ANGRIST, MIT and NBER

STACEY H. CHEN, University of London

BRIGHAM FRANDSEN, MIT

Did Vietnam Veterans Get Sticker in the 1990s?

9:30 am Break

9:45 am JAY BHATTACHARYA, Stanford University and NBER

THOMAS DELEIRE, University of Wisconsin

KANAKA SHETTY, RAND Corporation

CHAPIN WHITE, Congressional Budget Office

Changes in U.S. Hospitalization and Mortality Rates

Following Smoking Bans

10:45 am Break

11:00 am PARTHA DEB, CUNY and NBER

WILLIAM T. GALLO, Yale University

JODY L. SINDELAR, Yale University and NBER

Involuntary Job Loss, Body Mass and Alcohol Consumption

12:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm SAMANTHA HEEP, Wellesley College

PHILLIP LEVINE and ROBIN MCKNIGHT, Wellesley College and NBER

Public Policy, Health Insurance, and the Transition to Adulthood

2:00 pm Break

2:15 pm ROBERT KAESTNER, University of Illinois-Chicago and NBER

JEFFREY SILBER, University of Pennsylvania

New Evidence on the Efficacy of Medicare Spending

3:15 pm GABRIELLA CONTI and, University of Chicago

JAMES HECKMAN, University of Chicago and NBER

SERGIO URZUA, Northwestern University

Early Endowments, Education, and Health

4:15 pm Adjourn

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