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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC. 

Health Care Program Meeting 

Jonathan Gruber, Amy Finkelstein, and Raj Chetty, Organizers 

November 4, 2016 

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

PROGRAM

Thursday, November 3
6:00 pm	Dinner, Royal Sonesta Hotel, Riverfront Room Speaker: Jason Furman, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers
Friday, November 4
7:30 am 8:00 am	Shuttle van departs from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER Shuttle van departs from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
	Morning session joint with Public Economics
8:00 am	Coffee and pastries
8:30 am	Vilsa Curto, Stanford University Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Jonathan Levin, Stanford University and NBER Jay Bhattacharya, Stanford University and NBER Healthcare Spending and Utilization in Public and Private Medicare
9:30 am	Michael Frakes, Duke University and NBER Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Defensive Medicine: Evidence from Military Immunity
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Nathaniel Hendren, Harvard University and NBER Measuring Ex-Ante Welfare in Insurance Markets
12:00 noon	Lunch
1:00 pm	Jason Abaluck, Yale University and NBER Leila Agha, Dartmouth College and NBER David Chan, Jr, Stanford University and NBER Discretion and Guidelines: Evidence from Warfarin Administration
2:00 pm	Sonia Jaffe, Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago Mark Shepard, Harvard University and NBER Price-Linked Subsidies and Health Insurance Markups
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Emily Oster, Brown University and NBER Does Disease Cause Vaccination?
4:30 pm	Adjourn