SI 2019 Health Economics
Organized by Christopher S. Carpenter, Michael Grossman, and Robert Kaestner
July 22, 2019

Monday, July 22

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

9:00 am

Public Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality

D. Mark Anderson, Montana State University and NBER
Kerwin Kofi Charles, Yale University and NBER
Daniel I. Rees, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

10:00 am

Break

10:15 am

The Mortality Impact of Fine Particulate Matter in China

Yazhen Gong, Renmin University of China
Shanjun Li, Cornell University and NBER
Nicholas J. Sanders, Cornell University and NBER
Guang Shi, Peking University

11:15 am

Break

11:30 am

The Impact of Car Pollution on Infant and Child Health: Evidence from Emissions Cheating

Diane E. Alexander, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Hannes Schwandt, Northwestern University and NBER

12:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm

Place-Based Drives of Mortality

Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER
Heidi L. Williams, Dartmouth College and NBER

2:30 pm

Break

2:45 pm

Social Interventions, Health and Wellbeing: The Long-term and Intergenerational Effects of a School Construction Program

Bhashkar Mazumder, University of California, Irvine and NBER
Maria Rosales-Rueda, University of Delaware and NBER
Margaret Triyana, The World Bank

3:45 pm

Break

4:00 pm

Rational Self-Medication

Michael Darden, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
Nicholas W. Papageorge, Johns Hopkins University and NBER

5:00 pm

Adjourn