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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Health Care Program Meeting

Jonathan Gruber, Organizer

March 6, 2015

NBER
Feldstein Conference Room, 2^nd Floor

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Thursday, March 5:
6:00 pm	Group Dinner at Bambara Restaurant, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd. in Cambridge (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Friday, March 6:
7:45 am	Shuttle van departs from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:00 am	Shuttle van departs from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	Emily Oster, Brown University and NBER Diabetes and Diet: Behavior Change and the Value of Health
9:30 am	Maria Polyakova, Stanford University Regulation of Insurance with Adverse Selection and Switching Costs: Evidence from Medicare Part D
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Matthew R. Grennan, University of Pennsylvania Ashley Swanson, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Transparency and Negotiated Prices: The Value of Information in Hospital-Supplier Bargaining
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	Zack Cooper, Yale University Stuart V. Craig, Yale University Martin Gaynor, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER Price or Quantity: What Explains the Variation in Spending on the Privately Insured?
2:00 pm	David Powell, RAND Corporation Seth A. Seabury, University of Southern California Medical Care Spending and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence From Workers' Compensation Reforms
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Benjamin R. Handel, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Jonathan T. Kolstad, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University and NBER Zarek C. Brot-Goldberg, University of California, Berkeley What Does a Deductible Do? The Impact of Cost-Sharing on Health Care Prices, Quantities, and Spending Dynamics
4:30 pm	Adjourn