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Health Care Program Meeting

March 8 and 9, 2012

Jonathan Gruber, Organizer

 

Joint Health Care Program and Environmental and Energy Economics Program Meeting

March 9, 2012

Jonathan Gruber, Don Fullerton and Nolan Miller, Organizers

 

Environmental and Energy Economics Program Meeting

March 10, 2012

Don Fullerton and Nolan Miller, Organizers

 

NBER

Feldstein Conference Room - 2nd Floor

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts


PROGRAM

 

Thursday, March 8:

 

 

11:45 am

Shuttle Vans (2) Depart from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

Health Care Program Meeting

 

 

1:00 pm

Charles J. Courtemanche, University of Louisville and NBER
Daniela Zapata, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

 

Does Universal Coverage Improve Health? The Massachusetts Experience

 

2:00 pm

Break

 

 

2:15 pm

Subramaniam Ramanarayanan, University of California at Los Angeles
Jason Snyder, University of California at Los Angeles
Reputations and Firm Performance: Evidence from the Dialysis Industry

 

3:15 pm

Break

 

 

Panel Discussion:

Bernard Tyson, President and COO of Kaiser Permanente

Gary Gottlieb, President and CEO of Partners HealthCare

Ralph de la Torre, President and CEO of Steward Health Care System

 

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

5:00 pm

Shuttle Vans (2) Depart from the NBER for the Royal Sonesta Hotel

5:30 pm

Shuttle Van (1) Departs from the NBER for the Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

6:00 pm

Dinner (Bambara Restaurant at the Hotel Marlowe, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA – across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)

 

Friday, March 9:

 

8:00 am

Shuttle Vans (2) Depart from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER

8:15 am

Shuttle Van (1) Departs from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

Health Care Program Meeting (cont.)

 

 

9:00 am

Amanda Starc, University of Pennsylvania

 

Insurer Pricing and Consumer Welfare: Evidence from Medigap

 

 

10:00 am

Vivian Wu, University of Southern California
Yu-Chu Shen, Naval Postgraduate School and NBER

 

The Long-term Impact of Medicare Payment Reductions on Patient Outcomes

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

Jason Abaluck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Dynamics of Plan Choice in Medicare Part D

 

12:30 pm

Adjourn

 

Joint Health Care Program and Environmental and Energy Economics Program Meeting

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

1:30 pm

Garth Heutel, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and NBER

Christopher Ruhm, University of Virginia and NBER

 

Air Pollution and Procyclical Mortality

 

 

Discussant: Matt Neidell, Columbia University and NBER

 

2:30 pm

Jesse Antilla-Hughes, Columbia University
Solomon Hsiang, Princeton University

 

Destruction, Disinvestment, and Death: Economic and Human Losses Following Environmental Disaster

 

 

Discussant: Tatyana Deryugina, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

3:30 pm

Break

 

4:00 pm

Ester Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Michael Greenstone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Rema Hanna, Harvard University

 

Up in Smoke: The Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves

 

 

Discussant: Grant Miller, Stanford University and NBER

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

5:00 pm

Shuttle Vans (2) Depart from the NBER for the Royal Sonesta Hotel

5:30 pm

Shuttle Van (1) Departs from the NBER for the Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

6:00 pm

Group Dinner – Royal Sonesta Hotel, Skyline Rooms

 

Saturday, March 10:

 

Environmental and Energy Economics Program Meeting

 

7:45 am

Shuttle Vans (2) Depart from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER

 

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

8:30 am

Christopher Knittel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

Ryan Sandler, University of California-Davis

 

Cleaning the Bathwater with the Baby: The Health Co-Benefits of Carbon Pricing in Transportation

 

 

Discussant: James Sallee, University of Chicago and NBER

 

9:30 am

Break

 

9:45 am

Prashant Bharadwaj, University of California at San Diego

 

Joshua S. Graff Zivin, University of California at San Diego and NBER

 

Christopher Neilson, Yale University

 

Temperature and Human Capital Formation

 

 

Discussant: Olivier Deschenes, University of California at Santa Barbara and NBER

 

10:45 am

Break

 

11:00 am

Hunt Allcott, New York University and NBER

 

Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University and NBER

 

Dmitry Taubinsky, Harvard University

 

Externalities, Internalities, and the Targeting of Energy Policy

 

 

Discussant: Meghan Busse, Northwestern University and NBER

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

12:30 pm

Harrison Fell, Colorado School of Mines

 

William A. Pizer, Duke University and NBER

 

Ian MacKenzie, ETH Zurich

 

Prices versus Quantities versus Bankable Quantities

 

 

Discussant: Rob Williams, University of Maryland and NBER

 

1:30 pm

Adjourn