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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Organizational Economics Working Group Meeting

The Organization and Productivity of Healthcare Delivery

Organized by Robert Gibbons (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER)

and Elizabeth Martinez (Massachusetts General Hospital)

December 7, 2012

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Riverfront Room

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

December 7, 2012
1:00 pm	James Rebitzer, Boston University
	Structuring Incentives within Organizations: The Case of Accountable Care Organizations (with B. Frandsen)
	Discussant: David Cutler, Harvard University and NBER
2:00 pm	Robert Gibbons, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Elizabeth Martinez, Massachusetts General Hospital
	Checklists, Cultures, and Capabilities: A Partial Survey
2:30 pm	Peter Pronovost, Johns Hopkins University (by video)
	Taking Safety and Quality to the Next Level: The Need for Trans Disciplinary Research (slides)
3:30 pm	Break
3:45 pm	Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
	Healthcare Exceptionalism? Productivity, Competition and Resource Allocation in the U.S. Healthcare Sector (with A. Chandra, A. Sacarny, and C. Syverson)
	Discussant: Doug Staiger, Dartmouth College and NBER
Organizational Economics Working Group Meeting Organized by Robert Gibbons (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER)
4:45 pm	Roland Fryer, Harvard University and NBER
	Injecting Successful Charter School Strategies into Traditional Public Schools: Early Results from an Experiment in Houston
	Discussant: Derek Neal, University of Chicago and NBER
5:45 pm	Adjourn
6:30 pm	Group Dinner
	Bambara Restaurant at Hotel Marlowe, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd. (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)