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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2014

Health Economics Workshop

Michael Grossman and Ted Joyce, Organizers

July 21 – 22, 2014

Hotel Marlowe

Muse Ballroom

25 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

Monday, July 21:
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	Philip DeCicca, McMaster University and NBER Donald S. Kenkel, Cornell University and NBER Feng Liu, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Hua Wang De Gustibus Est Disputandum: Regulating the Taste of Cigarettes
2:00 pm	Break
2:15 pm	Ryan D. Edwards, Queens College, CUNY and NBER If My Blood Pressure Is High, Do I Take It to Heart? Behavioral Impacts of Biomarker Collection in the Health and Retirement Study
3:15 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Jorge Aguero, University of Connecticut Trinidad Beleche, Food and Drug Administration Did the Swine Flu Save Lives? Evidence from Mexico
4:30 pm	Adjourn
Tuesday, July 22:
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Gabriella Conti, University College London and NBER Beyond Birthweight: The Origins of Health Capital
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Petra Persson, Stanford University Maya Rossin-Slater, University of California at Santa Barbara Family Ruptures and Intergenerational Transmission of Stress
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	Chih Ming Tan, University of North Dakota Zhibo Tan, Peking University Xiaobo Zhang, International Food Policy Research Institute Sins of the Fathers: The Intergenerational Legacy of the 1959-61 Great Chinese Famine on Children's Cognitive Development
12:30 pm	Lunch and Adjourn