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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Health Economics Program Meeting

Michael Grossman and Ted Joyce, Organizers

April 20, 2012

NBER
2^nd Floor Martin Feldstein Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

Thursday, April 19, 2012
6:30 pm	Dinner Bambara Restaurant 25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard(Across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel) Cambridge, MA
Friday, April 20, 2012
7:45 am 8:00 am	Shuttle Van Departs the Royal Sonesta for the NBER Shuttle Van Departs the Royal Sonesta for the NBER
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	D. Mark Anderson, Montana State University Daniel Rees, University of Colorado at Denver Benjamin Hansen, University of Oregon Medical Marijuana Laws, Traffic Fatalities, and Alcohol Consumption
9:30 am	Break
9:45 am	Tinna LaufeyAsgeirsdottir and Porhildur Olafsdottir, University of Iceland Hope Corman and Kelly Noonan, Rider University and NBER Nancy Reichman, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Are Recessions Good for Your Health Behavior? Impacts of the Financial Crisis in Iceland
10:45 am	Break
11:00 am	John Cawley, Cornell University and NBER David Frisvold, Emory University Chad Meyerhoefer, Lehigh University The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity among Elementary School Children
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Charles Courtemanche, University of Louisville and NBER Garth Heutel, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Patrick McAlvanah, Federal Trade Commission Impatience, Incentives, and Obesity
2:00 pm	Break
2:15 pm	Geoffrey Joyce, University of Southern California and NBER Julie Zissimopoulos, University of Southern California Dana Goldman, University of Southern California and NBER Digesting the Doughnut Hole
3:15 pm	Daniel Millimet, Southern Methodist University Rusty Tchernis, Georgia State University and NBER Estimation of Treatment Effects Without an Exclusion Restriction: with an Application to the Analysis of the School Breakfast Program
4:15 pm	Adjourn
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