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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC

 

HEALTH ECONOMICS PROGRAM MEETING

Micheal Grossman and Ted Joyce, Organizers

 

May 7, 2010

 

NBER  Offices,

Martin Feldstein Conference Room, 2nd Floor

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

 

PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, MAY 6:

 

 

6:30 pm

Dinner

 

Bambara Restaurant

 

Hotel Marlowe

 

25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard (Across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)

 

Cambridge, MA

 

 

FRIDAY, MAY 7:

 

 

7:45 am

Shuttle Van Departs the Royal Sonesta for NBER

 

 

8:00 am

Shuttle Van Departs the Royal Sonesta for NBER

 

 

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:30 am

TED JOYCE, Baruch College and NBER

 

RUODING TAN and YUXIU ZHANG, City University of New York

 

Changes in Teen Fertility Following Access to the Pill and Abortion in the Early 1970s

 

 

9:30 am

Break

 

 

9:45 am

ANNA AIZER, Brown University and NBER

 

LAURA STROUD, Brown University

 

Education, Knowledge and the Evolution of Disparities in Health

 

 

10:45 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

JOSHUA GRAFF ZIVIN, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

MATTHEW NEIDELL, Columbia University and NBER

 

The Impact of Environmental Conditions on Worker Productivity

 

 

12:00 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

WILLIAM EVANS, University of Notre Dame and NBER

 

TIMOTHY MOORE, University of Maryland

 

The Short-Term Mortality Consequences of Income Receipt

 

 

2:00 pm

Break

 

 

2:15 pm

CHRISTOPHER CARPENTER, UC, Irvine and NBER

 

SABINA POSTOLEK and CASEY WARMAN, Queen’s University

 

Public-Place Smoking Laws and Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS)in Public Places

 

 

3:15 pm

GAUTAM GOWRISANKARAN, University of Arizona and NBER

 

KAREN NORBERG, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER

 

STEVEN KYMES, DUSTIN STWALLEY and WILLIAM PECK,

                                                                 Washington University in St. Louis

 

MICHAEL CHERNEW, Harvard University and NBER

 

The Impact of Insurance-Based Wellness Incentives on Hospitalizations and Medical Care Use

 

 

4:15 pm

Adjourn

 

 

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