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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2011

 

Health Economics Workshop

 

Michael Grossman and Ted Joyce, Organizers

 

July 25 - 26, 2011

 

University BC

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

Monday, July 25:

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

Jonathan T. Kolstad, University of Pennsylvania

 

Amanda E. Kowalski, Yale University and NBER

 

Individually Mandated Health Insurance and Labor Market Evidence from the Massachusetts Health Insurance Reform

 

 

2:00 pm

Break

 

 

2:15 pm

Jenny Williams, University of Melbourne

 

Jan C. van Ours, Tilburg University

 

Michael Grossman, City University of New York Graduate Center and NBER

 

Why Do Some People Want to Legalize Cannabis Use?

 

 

3:15 pm

Break

 

 

3:30 pm

Costas Meghir, Yale University

 

Marten Palme, Stockholm University

 

Emilia Simeonova, Tufts University

 

Education, Health and Mortality: Evidence from a Social Experiment

 

 

4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

Tuesday, July 26:

 

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

Heather Royer, UC Santa Barbara and NBER

 

Mark Stehr, Drexel University

 

Justin Sydnor, Case Western Reserve University

 

Incentives, Commitments and Habit Formation in Exercise: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Workers at a Fortune-500 Company

 

 

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

Daniel Eisenberg, University of Michigan

 

Ezra Golberstein, University of Minnesota

 

Janis L. Whitlock, Cornell University

 

Marilyn F. Downs, Simmons College

 

Social Contagion of Mental Health: Evidence from College Roommates

 

 

11:15 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

Grant Miller, Stanford University and NBER

 

Renfu Luo, Chinese Academy of Sciences

 

Linxiu Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences

 

Sean Sylvia, University of Maryland

 

Yaojiang Shi, Northwest University

 

Patricia Foo, Stanford University

 

Qiran Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences

 

Reynaldo Martorell, Emory University

 

Alexis Medina, Stanford University

 

Scott Rozell, Stanford University

 

A Cluster Randomized Trial of Provider Incentives for Anemia Reduction in Rural China

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch and Adjourn