SI 2025 Economics of Health
Organized by Colleen Carey, Christopher S. Carpenter, Paul J. Eliason, Amy Finkelstein, Sarah Miller, Erik T. Nesson, Adam Sacarny, and Meghan Skira
July 23-24, 2025
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, July 23
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:45 am
Welcome/ Announcements
9:00 am

The Hidden Health Care Crisis Behind Bars: A Randomized Trial to Accredit U.S. Jails

Marcella Alsan, Stanford University and NBER
Crystal Yang, Harvard University and NBER
9:45 am
Break
10:00 am

Trade, Trees, and Lives

Xinming Du, National University of Singapore
Lei Li, University of Göttingen
Eric Zou, University of Michigan and NBER
10:45 am
Break
11:00 am

Subscriptions to Prescriptions: Lessons from Louisiana’s Effort to Eliminate Hepatitis C

Barton Willage, University of Delaware and NBER
James M. Flynn, Miami University
Bethany I. Lemont, Ohio University
11:45 am
Lunch
1:00 pm

The Effect of Income on Fertility: Evidence from a Randomized Study of Cash Transfers

Sumit Agarwal, University of Michigan
Jeffrey B. Liebman, Harvard University and NBER
1:10 pm

The (Going) Public Option: Equity Market Financing in the Hospital Industry

Cyrus Aghamolla, Rice University
Jash Jain, Indian School of Business (ISB)
Richard T. Thakor, University of Minnesota
1:20 pm

Predictably Unpredictable: Inspections and Quality in Health Care

Ashvin Gandhi, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Andrew Olenski, Lehigh University
Maggie Shi, University of Chicago and NBER
1:30 pm
Break
2:00 pm

The Deadly Consequences of Labor Scarcity: Evidence from Hospitals

Oliver Schlenker, University of Konstanz
2:45 pm
Break
3:00 pm

Costs of Technological Frictions: Evidence from EHR (Non-)Interoperability

Rebekah Dix, Yale University
Kelsey Moran, University of Miami
Thi Mai Anh Nguyen, New York University
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm

Targeting Efficiencies? Reducing Costs Through Hospital Consolidation

Jonathan Arnold, University of Pennsylvania
Atul Gupta, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Alexander L. Olssen, University of Pennsylvania
Tong Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4:45 pm
Adjourn
Thursday, July 24
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am

The Impact of Medicare on Life Expectancy

Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Adriana Lleras-Muney, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Joseph Price, Brigham Young University and NBER
Dahai Yue, University of Maryland, College Park
9:45 am
Break
10:00 am

Entry and Competition in Insurance Markets: Evidence from Medicare Advantage

Matthew V. Zahn, Georgetown University
10:45 am
Break
11:00 am

In Defense of the Middleman: Quality Failures in the Generic Pharmaceutical Market

Catherine E. Ishitani, University of Pennsylvania
11:45 am
Lunch
1:00 pm

Education and Dementia Risk

Silvia H. Barcellos, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Leandro Carvalho, University of Southern California
Kenneth Langa, University of Michigan
Sneha Nimmagadda, University of Southern California
Patrick Turley, University of Southern California
1:10 pm

Social Costs of Work Disruptions: Evidence from Physicians and their Patients

Leila Agha, Harvard University and NBER
Na'ama Shenhav, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Myles Wagner, The Ohio State University
1:20 pm

Private Equity in Public-Provider Markets: Operating Efficiency vs. Cream-Skimming

Cameron M. Ellis, University of Iowa
Meghan I. Esson, University of Iowa
1:30 pm
Break
2:00 pm

Are Hospital Acquisitions of Physician Practices Anticompetitive?

Zack Cooper, Yale University and NBER
Stuart V. Craig, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Aristotle Epanomeritakis, Harvard University
Matthew Grennan, Emory University and NBER
Joseph R. Martinez, University of California, San Francisco
Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University and NBER
Ashley T. Swanson, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
2:45 pm
Break
3:00 pm

Competition and Fraud in Health Care

Renuka M. Diwan, Boston University
Paul J. Eliason, University of Utah and NBER
Riley 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
3:45 pm
Adjourn