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Health Economics Program Meeting
Organized by Christopher S. Carpenter and Johanna Catherine Maclean
December 10, 2021
Cambridge, MA and on Zoom.us
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Friday, December 10
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7:45 am
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Continental Breakfast
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8:15 am
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Welcome
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8:20 am
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Office-Based Mental Healthcare and Juvenile Arrests
Monica Deza, Syracuse University and NBER
Thanh Lu, RTI International
Johanna Catherine Maclean, George Mason University and NBER
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8:40 am
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Ambulance Taxis: The Impact of Regulation and Litigation on Health Care Fraud
Paul J. Eliason, University of Utah and NBER
Riley J. League, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Jetson Leder-Luis, Boston University and NBER
Ryan C. McDevitt, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
James W. Roberts, Duke University and NBER
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9:00 am
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Break
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9:10 am
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A Gift of Health: The Duke Endowment’s Impact on Hospital Care and Mortality
Alex Hollingsworth, The Ohio State University and NBER
Krzysztof Karbownik, Emory University and NBER
Melissa A. Thomasson, Miami University and NBER
Anthony Wray, University of Southern Denmark
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9:50 am
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Break
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10:00 am
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The Effect of Hospital Postpartum Care Regulations on Breastfeeding and Maternal Time Allocation
Emily C. Lawler, University of Georgia and NBER
Katherine G. Yewell, Florida State University
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10:40 am
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Break
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10:50 am
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"I Quit": The Role of Schedule Volatility in Employee Turnover
Alon Bergman, University of Pennsylvania
Guy David, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Hummy Song, University of Pennsylvania
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11:30 am
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Lunch - Parkview Room
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12:30 pm
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Cigarette Taxes, Smoking, and Health in the Long Run
Andrew I. Friedson, University of Colorado Denver
Moyan Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
Katherine Meckel, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Daniel I. Rees, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Daniel W. Sacks, University of Wisconsin - Madison
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1:10 pm
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Break
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1:20 pm
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Uber and Alcohol-Related Traffic Fatalities
Michael L. Anderson, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Lucas W. Davis, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
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2:00 pm
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Break
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2:10 pm
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The Impact of Legal Abortion on Maternal Health: Looking to the Past to Inform the Present
(slides)
Sherajum Monira Farin, Georgia State University
Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, Georgia State University
Michael F. Pesko, University of Missouri
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2:50 pm
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Break
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3:00 pm
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Towering Intellects? Sizing Up the Relationship Between Height and Academic Success
(slides)
Stephanie G. Coffey, Saint Anselm College
Amy Ellen Schwartz, New York University
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3:20 pm
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Bad Lighting: Effects of Youth Indoor Tanning Prohibitions
Christopher Carpenter, Vanderbilt University and NBER
Brandyn F. Churchill, American University and NBER
Michelle M. Marcus, Vanderbilt University and NBER
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3:40 pm
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Adjourn
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