Wednesday, July 24
6:00 pm
Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Thursday, July 25
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am

Outcomes-Based Payments and Physician Productivity: Evidence from Diabetes Care in Hawaii

Benjamin R. Handel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jonathan T. Kolstad, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Allyson Root, Amazon
Michael D. Whinston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
10:00 am

Promoting Wellness or Waste: Evidence from Antidepressant Advertising

Bradley Shapiro, University of Chicago and NBER
11:00 am
Break
11:30 am

Behavioral Feedback: Do Individual Choices Influence Scientific Results?

Emily Oster, Brown University and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:15 pm

Impeding Access or Promoting Efficiency? Effects of Rural Hospital Closure on the Cost and Quality of Care

Caitlin Carroll, University of Minnesota
2:15 pm

Medicaid and Mortality: New Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data

Sarah Miller, University of Michigan and NBER
Laura R. Wherry, New York University and NBER
2:45 pm
Break
3:15 pm

Selection with Variation in Diagnostic Skill: Evidence from Radiologists

David C. Chan Jr, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER
Chuan Yu, Harvard University
4:15 pm
Adjourn
Remembrances of Martin Feldstein and the Martin Feldstein Lecture follow at 4:30 in the Ballroom
Friday, July 26
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am

Screening and Selection: The Case of Mammograms

Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER
Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Tamar Oostrom, The Ohio State University and NBER
Abigail J. Ostriker, Harvard University
Heidi L. Williams, Dartmouth College and NBER
10:00 am

Intermediation and Vertical Integration in the Market for Surgeons

Zarek C. Brot-Goldberg, University of Chicago and NBER
Mathijs de Vaan, University of California at Berkeley
11:00 am
Break
11:30 am

Endogenous Information Acquisition and Insurance Choice

Zach Y. Brown, University of Michigan and NBER
Jihye Jeon, Boston University
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

Are We Over-Testing? Using Machine Learning to Understand Doctors' Decisions

Sendhil Mullainathan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Ziad Obermeyer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
2:30 pm

Drug Diffusion through Peer Networks: The Influence of Industry Payments

Leila Agha, Harvard University and NBER
Dan Zeltzer, Tel Aviv University
3:00 pm

Social Signaling and Childhood Immunization: A Field Experiment in Sierra Leone

Anne Karing, University of Chicago
3:30 pm
Adjourn