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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Health Economics Program Meeting

Michael Grossman and Theodore J. Joyce, Organizers

April 17, 2015

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


PROGRAM

 

Thursday, April 16

 

6:30 pm


Dinner
Dante Restaurant

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, MA 02142

Friday, April 17


7:45 am
8:00 am


Shuttle Service from the Royal Sonesta Hotel to the NBER
Shuttle Service from the Royal Sonesta Hotel to the NBER


8:00 am


Continental Breakfast


8:30 am


Harry Krashinsky, University of Toronto
Philip DeCicca, McMaster University and NBER
Does Education Reduce Teen Fertility?

9:30 am

Break


9:45 am


Thomas Goldring, Carnegie Mellon University
Fabian Lange, McGill University
Seth Richards-Shubik, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Testing for Changes in the SES-Mortality Gradient When the Distribution of Education Changes Too

10:45 am

Break


11:00 am


Elaine M. Liu, University of Houston and NBER
Jin-Tan Liu, National Taiwan University and NBER
Hazel Tseng, University of Houston
The Impact of a Natural Disaster on the Incidence of Fetal Losses and Pregnancy Outcomes

12:00 pm

Lunch


1:00 pm


Mark L. Egan, University of Chicago
Tomas Philipson, University of Chicago and NBER
Non-Adherence and Personalized Medicine: A Positive and Normative Analysis

2:00 pm

Break


2:15 pm


D. Mark Anderson, Montana State University
Benjamin Crost, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Daniel I. Rees, University of Colorado at Denver
Wet Laws, Drinking Establishments, and Crime
 


3:15 pm


Chad D. Cotti, University of Wisconsin
Erik Nesson, Emory University
Nathan Tefft, Bates College
The Effects of Tobacco Control Policies on Tobacco Products, Tar, and Nicotine Consumption: Evidence from Household Panel Data
 

4:15 pm

Adjourn

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