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Wednesday, July 23
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8:30 am
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Coffee and Pastries
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8:45 am
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Welcome/ Announcements
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9:00 am
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The Hidden Health Care Crisis Behind Bars: A Randomized Trial to Accredit U.S. Jails
Marcella Alsan, Harvard University and NBER
Crystal Yang, Harvard University and NBER
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9:45 am
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Break
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10:00 am
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Trade, Trees, and Lives
Xinming Du, National University of Singapore
Lei Li, University of Göttingen
Eric Zou, University of Michigan and NBER
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10:45 am
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Break
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11:00 am
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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
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11:45 am
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Lunch
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1:00 pm
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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
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1:10 pm
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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
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1:20 pm
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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
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1:30 pm
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Break
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2:00 pm
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The Deadly Consequences of Labor Scarcity: Evidence from Hospitals
Oliver Schlenker, University of Konstanz
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2:45 pm
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Break
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3:00 pm
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Costs of Technological Frictions: Evidence from EHR (Non-)Interoperability
Rebekah Dix, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kelsey Moran, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thi Mai Anh Nguyen, New York University
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3:45 pm
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Break
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4:00 pm
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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
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4:45 pm
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Adjourn
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Thursday, July 24
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8:30 am
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Coffee and Pastries
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9:00 am
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The Impact of Medicare’s Introduction 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
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9:45 am
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Break
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10:00 am
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Entry and Competition in Insurance Markets: Evidence from Medicare Advantage
Matthew V. Zahn, Johns Hopkins University
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10:45 am
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Break
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11:00 am
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In Defense of the Middleman: Quality Failures in the Generic Pharmaceutical Market
Catherine E. Ishitani, University of Pennsylvania
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11:45 am
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Lunch
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1:00 pm
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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
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1:10 pm
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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
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1:20 pm
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Private Equity in Public-Provider Markets: Operating Efficiency vs. Cream-Skimming
Cameron M. Ellis, University of Iowa
Meghan I. Esson, University of Iowa
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1:30 pm
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Break
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2:00 pm
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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 Pennsylvania
Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University and NBER
Ashley T. Swanson, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
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2:45 pm
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Break
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3:00 pm
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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, Duke University and NBER
James W. Roberts, Duke University and NBER
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3:45 pm
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Adjourn
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