COVID-19 and Health Outcomes

Jonathan S. Skinner and David M. Cutler, Organizers

December 4, 2020

Friday, November 13
11:00 am	M. Keith Chen, University of California at Los Angeles Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University and NBER Elisa F. Long, University of California at Los Angeles Nursing Home Staff Networks and COVID-19
11:30 am	Hanbat Jeong, Ohio State University Wei Cheng, East China University of Science and Technology Lung-Fei Lee, Ohio State University Bruce A. Weinberg, The Ohio State University and NBER A Spatial Model of the Spread of COVID-19 and Economic Outcomes
12:00 n	Andrew T. Levin, Dartmouth College and NBER William P. Hanage, Harvard University Nana O T. Owusu, Case Western Reserve University Kensington B. Cochran, Dartmouth College Seamus P. Walsh, Dartmouth College Assessing the Age Specificity of Infection Fatality Rates for COVID-19: Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Public Policy Implications (slides)
12:30 pm	Break
12:45 pm	Anne Case, Princeton University and NBER Angus Deaton, Princeton University and NBER When Epidemics Collide
1:15 pm	Silvia H. Barcellos, University of Southern California and NBER Mireille Jacobson, University of Southern California and NBER Arthur A. Stone, University of Southern California Varied and Unexpected Changes in the Well-being of Seniors in the United States amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
1:45 pm	Jonathan Zhang, McMaster University and NBER Hospital Avoidance and Unintended Deaths During the COVID-19 Pandemic
2:15 pm	Adjourn
Friday, December 4
10:30 am	David M. Cutler, Harvard University and NBER The COVID-19 Pandemic and Motor Vehicle Deaths
11:00 am	Engy Ziedan, Tulane University Kosali I. Simon, Indiana University and NBER Coady Wing, Indiana University Effects of State COVID-19 Closure Policy on Non-COVID19 Healthcare Utilization and Health
11:30 am	Christopher J. Cronin, University of Notre Dame William N. Evans, University of Notre Dame and NBER Nursing Home Quality, COVID-19 Deaths, and Excess Mortality
12:00 n	Maria Polyakova, Stanford University and NBER Victoria Udalova, U.S. Census Bureau Geoffrey Kocks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Katie Genadek, University of Minnesota Keith Finlay, U.S. Census Bureau Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Differential Impact of Early COVID-19 Pandemic on Mortality by Race, Nationwide and State by State
12:30 pm	Break
12:45 pm	David Weir, University of Michigan Jessica Faul, University of Michigan Gábor Kézdi, University of Michigan Keneth Langa, University of Michigan Helen G. Levy, University of Michigan and NBER The Effect of COVID-19 on Older Americans: Preliminary Results from the HRS COVID-19 Project
1:15 pm	Jevay Grooms, Howard University and NBER Alberto Ortega, Indiana University and NBER Joaquin Rubalcalba, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Racial and Ethnic Disparities: Essential Workers, Mental Health, and the Coronavirus Pandemic (slides)
1:45 pm	Laurence C. Baker, Stanford University and NBER Kate Bundorf, Duke University and NBER Maya Rossin-Slater, Stanford University and NBER Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Primary Care Use and the COVID-19 Pandemic (slides)
2:15 pm	Adjourn