Health Care Program Meeting
Organized by Jonathan Gruber
December 7, 2018
NBER, 2nd Floor, Feldstein Conference Room, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA

Thursday, December 6

6:00 pm

Group Dinner, Royal Sonesta Hotel, Longfellow Room A

Friday, December 7

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

9:00 am

The Two Margin Problem in Insurance Markets (slides)

Michael Geruso, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Timothy Layton, University of Virginia and NBER
Grace McCormack, University of Southern California
Mark Shepard, Harvard University and NBER

10:00 am

In-kind Transfers, Tagging, and Market Power: Evidence from the ACA

Maria Polyakova, Stanford University and NBER
Stephen P. Ryan, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER

11:00 am

Break

11:30 am

Behavior within a Clinical Trial and Implications for Mammography Guidelines (slides)

Amanda E. Kowalski, University of Michigan and NBER

12:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm

Reclassification Risk in the Small Group Health Insurance Market (slides)

Sebastián Fleitas, Universidad Catolica, Chile
Gautam Gowrisankaran, Columbia University and NBER
Anthony T. Lo Sasso, DePaul University

2:30 pm

Disability and Distress: The Effect of Disability Programs on Financial Outcomes

Manasi Deshpande, University of Chicago and NBER
Tal Gross, Boston University and NBER
Yalun Su, Analysis Group

3:30 pm

Break

4:00 pm

Patient vs. Provider Incentives in Long Term Care

Martin B. Hackmann, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Vincent Pohl, University of Georgia

5:00 pm

Adjourn