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SUMMER INSTITUTE 2009

 

Aging and Health Care Workshops

 

Aging Workshop

July 20 and 21, 2009

David Wise, Organizer

 

Social Security Workshop (joint with Aging and Public Economics)

July 22, 2009

Andrew Samwick, Organizer

 

Health Care Workshop

July 23 and 24, 2009

Jon Gruber, Organizer

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

                       

MONDAY, JULY 20:

 

 

 

Aging Workshop

 

 

 9:30 AM

Coffee and pastries

 

 

10:00 AM

MARK CULLEN, Yale University

 

LIRAN EINAV, Stanford University

 

AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT and NBER

 

Estimating Welfare in Insurance Markets using Variation in Prices

 

 

10:50 AM

Break

 

 

11:10 AM

AMANDA KOWALSKI, Yale University and NBER

 

Censored Quantile Instrumental Variable Estimates of the Price Elasticity of Expenditure on Medical Care

 

 

12:00 PM

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 PM

ANUPAM B. JENA, Massachusetts General Hospital

 

TOMAS PHILIPSON, University of Chicago

 

Endogenous Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

 

 

 1:50 PM

FLORIAN HEISS, University of Munich

 

DANIEL McFADDEN, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

JOACHIM WINTER, University of Munich

 

The Workings of a Private Health Insurance Market: Enrollment Decisions, Plan Choice, and Adverse Selection In Medicare Part D

 

 

 2:40 PM

Break

 

 

 3:10 PM

JEFFREY R. KLING, Congressional Budget Office

 

SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN, Harvard University and NBER

 

ELDAR SHAFIR, Princeton University

 

LEE VERMEULEN, University of Wisconsin

 

MARIAN V. WROBEL, Mathematica Policy Research

 

Misperception in Choosing Medicare Drug Plans

 

 

 4:00 PM

Adjourn

 

 

TUESDAY, JULY 21:

 

 

 

Aging Workshop

 

 

 8:30 AM

Coffee and pastries

 

 

 9:00 AM

ALAN GUSTMAN, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

THOMAS STEINMEIER, Texas Tech University

 

NAHID TABATABAI, Dartmouth College

 

How Do Pension Changes Affect Retirement Preparedness? The Trend to Defined  Contribution Plans and the Vulnerability of the Retirement Age Population to the Stock Market Decline of 2008-2009

 

 

 9:50 AM

JEFFREY BROWN, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NBER

 

JEFFREY R. KLING, Congressional Budget Office

 

SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN, Harvard University and NBER

 

GARTH WIENS, Brookings Institute

 

MARIAN V. WROBEL, Mathematica Policy Research

 

Framing, Reference Points, and Preferences for Life Annuities

 

 

10:40 AM

Break

 

 

11:10 AM

ANNAMARIA LUSARDI, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

OLIVIA MITCHELL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

How Ordinary Consumers Make Complex Economic Decisions: Financial Literacy and  Retirement Readiness

 

 

12:00 PM

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 PM

MICHAEL HURD, RAND Corporation and NBER

 

SUSANN ROHWEDDER, RAND Corporation

 

Effects of the Economic Crisis on American Households

 

 

 1:50 PM

COURTNEY COILE and PHILLIP B. LEVINE, Wellesley College and NBER

 

Mass Layoffs and the Market Crash: How the Current Economic Crisis May Affect Retirement

 

 

 2:40 PM

Break

 

 

 3:10 PM

HUGO BENÍTEZ-SILVA, SUNY-Stony Brook

 

SERGI JIMÉNEZ-MARTÍN, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

 

J. IGNACIO GARCÍA-PÉREZ, Universidad Pablo de Olavide

 

A Cross Country Comparison of the Effects of Social Security Policies and Employment Uncertainty on the Labor Supply and Claiming Behavior of Older Workers

 

 

 4:00 PM

Adjourn

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 22:

 

 

 

Social Security Workshop (joint with Aging and Public Economics)

 

 

 8:15 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 8:45 am

JEFFREY LIEBMAN and ERZO LUTTMER, Harvard University and NBER

 

The Perception of Social Security Incentives for Labor Supply and Retirement: The Median Voter Knows More Than You’d Think

 

 

 9:45 am

Break

 

 

10:00 am

DAYANAND MANOLI, UC, Los Angeles

 

KATHLEEN MULLEN, RAND Corporation

 

MATHIS WAGNER, University of Chicago

 

Risk Aversion & Retirement Decisions: Using Policy Variation to Identify & Estimate a Structural Parameter

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

ROOZBEH HOSSEINI, Arizona State University

 

Adverse Selection in the Annuity Market and the Role for Social Security

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:15 pm

JOHN GEANAKOPLOS, Yale University

 

STEPHEN P. ZELDES, Columbia University and NBER

 

The Market Value of Social Security

 

 

 2:15 pm

Break

 

 

 2:30 pm

FRANK R. LICHTENBERG, Columbia University and NBER

 

Has Pharmaceutical Innovation Reduced Social Security Disability Growth?

 

 

 3:30 pm

PIERRE-CARL MICHAUD, RAND Corporation

 

DANA GOLDMAN and DARIUS LAKDAWALLA, RAND Corporation and NBER

 

YUHUI ZHENG and ADAM H. GAILEY, RAND Corporation

 

Understanding the Economic Consequences of Shifting Trends in Population Health

 

 

 4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 23:

 

 

 

Health Care Workshop

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

SRIKANTH KADIYALA, University of Washington

 

ERIN STRUMPF, McGill University

 

The Impact of Cancer Screening Guideline Information on Cancer Detection

 

 

 

 

10:00 am

KENNETH CHAY, Brown University and NBER

 

SHAILENDER SWAMINATHAN, University of Alabama

 

Medicare, Hospital Care Utilization and Mortality: Evidence from the Origins of the Federal Intervention

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

ELIZABETH TY WILDE, Columbia University

 

Do Response Times Matter?  The Impact of EMS Response Times on Health Outcomes

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

  1:30 pm

DOUGLAS ALMOND, Columbia University and NBER

 

JOSEPH DOYLE, MIT and NBER

 

AMANDA KOWALSKI, MIT and NBER

 

HEIDI WILLIAMS, Harvard University

 

Estimating Marginal Returns to Medical Care: Evidence from At-Risk Newborns

 

 

 2:30 pm

JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER

 

SAMUEL KLEINER, Carnegie-Mellon University

 

Do Strikes Kill?  Evidence from Hospital Strikes in New York State

 

 

 3:30 pm

Break

 

 

 4:00 pm

STEPHEN T. PARENTE, ROGER FELDMAN and LEWIS SANDY, University of Minnesota

 

Does Access to Transparent Provider Quality and Cost Information Affect Health Care Cost and Utilization of Preventive Services?

 

 

 5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

FRIDAY, JULY 24:

 

 

 

Health Care Workshop

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

ANN BARTEL, Columbia University and NBER

 

CIARAN PHIBBS, Stanford University

 

NANCY BEAULIEU, Harvard University

 

PATRICIA STONE, Columbia University

 

Human Capital and Productivity: The Case of Nursing Teams

 

 

10:00 am

JOSEPH DOYLE, MIT and NBER

 

STEVEN EWER, Meriter Hospital

 

TODD WAGNER, Stanford University

 

Returns to Physician Human Capital: Analyzing Patients Randomized to Physician Teams

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

LEEMORE DAFNY, Northwestern University and NBER

 

MARK DUGGAN, University of Maryland and NBER

 

SUBRAMANIAM RAMANARAYANAN, UC, Los Angeles

 

Paying a Premium on Your Premium?  Consolidation in the U.S. Health Insurance Industry

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:30 pm

CAROL PROPPER, University of Bristol

 

MATT SUTTON, Manchester University

 

CAROLYN WHITNALL, University of Bristol

 

FRANK WINDMEIJER, University of Bristol

 

Incentives and Targets in Hospital Care: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

 

 

 2:30 pm

PHIL LEVINE and ROBIN MCKNIGHT, Wellesley College and NBER

 

SAMANTHA HEEP, Wellesley College

 

Public Policy, Health Insurance and the Transition to Adulthood

 

 

 3:30 pm

Break

 

 

 4:00 pm

LAUREN NICHOLAS, University of Michigan

 

Do Pay for Performance Incentives Improve Inpatient Quality of Care?

 

 

 5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

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