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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Conference on the Economics of Health Insurance Exchanges

Leemore Dafny and Jonathan Gruber, Organizers

December 5, 2014

NBER
2nd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Participant List

 

7:45 am

Shuttle vans (2) depart from the hotel for the NBER

 

 

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:30 am

Natalie Cox, University of California at Berkeley

 

Benjamin Handel, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

 

Jonathan Kolstad, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Neale Mahoney, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Messaging and the Mandate: The Impact of Advertising on Health Insurance Enrollment Through Exchanges

 

 

 

Discussant:  Jason Abaluck, Yale University and NBER

 

 

9:40 am

Keith Ericson, Boston University and NBER
Amanda Starc, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Measuring Consumer Valuation of Limited Provider Networks

 

 

 

Discussant:  Leemore Dafny, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

10:50 am

Break

 

 

11:20 am

Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

Robin McKnight, Wellesley College and NBER

 

Controlling Health Care Costs Through Limited Network Insurance Plans: Evidence from Massachusetts State Employees

 

 

 

Discussant:  Joseph Newhouse, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch and Discussion with Jean Yang, Executive Director, Massachusetts Health Connector

 

 

2:00 pm

Michael Dickstein, Stanford University and NBER

 

Mark Duggan, Stanford University and NBER

 

Joseph Orsini, Stanford University

 

Pietro Tebaldi, Stanford University

 

The Effect of Market Size and Composition on Health Insurance Premiums: Evidence from the First Year of the ACA

 

 

 

Discussant:  Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University and NBER

 

 

3:10 pm

Break

 

 

3:30 pm

Jeffrey McCullough, University of Minnesota

 

Jean Abraham, University of Minnesota

 

Coleman Drake, University of Minnesota

 

Kosali Simon, Indiana University and NBER

 

Competing under New Rules of the Game: An Analysis of Insurer Entry and Premiums for Exchange-Based Coverage

 

 

 

Discussant:  Amanda Kowalski, Yale University and NBER

 

 

4:40 pm

Adjourn




Format:  The meeting format for each paper will be a 35-minute presentation by the author, followed by one 15-minute discussion, and then another 20 minutes for questions.