SI 2018 Health Care
Organized by Jonathan Gruber
July 26-27, 2018
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Wednesday, July 25

6:00 pm

Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel

Thursday, July 26

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

9:00 am

Partial Rating Area Offering in the ACA Marketplaces: Facts, Theory and Evidence

Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Ami Ko, Georgetown University

10:00 am

Delegating Decision-Making to the Machine: Experimental Evidence from Health Insurance

Kate Bundorf, Duke University and NBER
Maria Polyakova, Stanford University and NBER
Ming Tai-Seale, University of California, San Diego

10:30 am

Saving Lives by Tying Hands: The Unexpected Effects of Constraining Health Care Providers

Thomas P. Hoe, Cornell University
Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
George P. Stoye, Institute for Fiscal Studies: IFS

11:00 am

Break

11:30 am

Market Failure in Kidney Exchange

Nikhil Agarwal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Itai Ashlagi, Stanford University
Eduardo M. Azevedo, University of Pennsylvania
Clayton Featherstone, University of Pennsylvania
Ömer Karaduman, Stanford University

12:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm

Overconfidence and the Diffusion of Medical Technology

Diego A. Comin, Dartmouth College and NBER
Jonathan S. Skinner, Dartmouth College and NBER
Douglas O. Staiger, Dartmouth College and NBER

2:30 pm

Hospital Pricing and Public Payments

Michael Darden, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
Ian McCarthy, Emory University and NBER
Eric Barrette, Medtronic

3:00 pm

The Deadly Effects Of Losing Health Insurance

Judit Vall Castelló, University of Barcelona
Arnau Juanmarti, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Guillem Lopez Casasnovas, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

3:30 pm

Break

4:00 pm

Physician Behavior in the Presence of a Secondary Market: The Case of Prescription Opioids

Molly Schnell, Northwestern University and NBER

5:00 pm

Adjourn

Friday, July 27

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

9:00 am

Liquidity Constraints and the Value of Insurance

Keith Marzilli Ericson, Boston University and NBER
Justin R. Sydnor, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER

10:00 am

Financing the War on Cancer

Ralph Koijen, University of Chicago and NBER
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Columbia University and NBER

10:30 am

The Long-Run Impact of New Medical Ideas on Cancer Survival and Mortality

Frank R. Lichtenberg, Columbia University and NBER

11:00 am

Break

11:30 am

Triage Judgments in the Emergency Department

David C. Chan Jr, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

12:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm

Health Insurance Design Meets Tax Incentives for Saving: Consumer Responses to Complex Contracts

Adam Leive, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

2:30 pm

Information Avoidance and Medical Screening: A Field Experiment in China

Yufeng Li, Capital Medical University Beijing
Juanjuan Meng, Peking University
Changcheng Song, University of Florida
Kai Zheng, University of California, Irvine

3:00 pm

Free for Children? Patient Cost-sharing and Health Care Utilization

Toshiaki Iizuka, The University of Tokyo
Hitoshi Shigeoka, Simon Fraser University and NBER

3:30 pm

Break

4:00 pm

Administrative Pricing, Incentive Alignment, and Medical Market Competition

Elizabeth L. Munnich, University of Louisville
Michael R. Richards, Cornell University and NBER

5:00 pm

Adjourn