Health Care Program Meeting
Organized by Leemore Dafny, Jonathan Gruber, Benjamin R. Handel, and Neale Mahoney
December 6, 2019
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Charles Suites, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
Thursday, December 5
6:00 pm
Group Dinner - Royal Sonesta Hotel, Room Skyline DE
Friday, December 6
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am

A Theory of Geographic Variations in Medical Care (slides)

Pierre-Thomas Léger, University of Illinois, Chicago
Robert Town, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Wu Jiashan, University of Illinois at Chicago
9:30 am

Office Visits Preventing Emergency Room Visits: Evidence from the Flint Water Switch

Shooshan Danagoulian, Wayne State University
Daniel S. Grossman, West Virginia University and NBER
David Slusky, University of Kansas and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:30 am

The Social Determinants of Choice Quality: Evidence from Health Insurance in the Netherlands

Benjamin R. Handel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jonathan T. Kolstad, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Thomas Minten, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Johannes Spinnewijn, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
11:30 am

The Role of Behavioral Frictions in Health Insurance Marketplace Enrollment and Risk: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Richard Domurat, University of California, Los Angeles
Isaac Menashe, Covered California
Wesley Yin, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch - Parkview Room
1:00 pm

The Roots of Health Inequality and The Value of Intra-Family Expertise

Yiqun Chen, University of Illinois Chicago and NBER
Petra Persson, Stanford University and NBER
Maria Polyakova, Stanford University and NBER
2:00 pm

Origins of the Opioid Crisis and Its Enduring Impacts

Abby E. Alpert, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
William N. Evans, University of Notre Dame and NBER
Ethan Lieber, University of Notre Dame and NBER
David Powell, RAND Corporation
2:30 pm
Break
3:00 pm

Voluntary Regulation: Evidence from Medicare Payment Reform

Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER
Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Yunan Ji, Georgetown University and NBER
Neale Mahoney, Stanford University and NBER
4:00 pm

The Impacts of Physician Payments on Patient Access, Use, and Health

Diane E. Alexander, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Molly Schnell, Northwestern University and NBER
4:30 pm
Adjourn