Health Care Program Meeting

Leemore Dafny, Jonathan Gruber, Benjamin R. Handel, and Neale Mahoney, Organizers

December 6, 2019

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Charles Suites, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Thursday, December 5
6:00 pm	Group Dinner - Royal Sonesta Hotel, Room Skyline DE
Friday, December 6
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	Pierre-Thomas Léger, University of Illinois, Chicago Robert Town, University of Texas at Austin and NBER Wu Jiashan, University of Illinois at Chicago A Theory of Geographic Variations in Medical Care (slides)
9:30 am	Shooshan Danagoulian, Wayne State University Daniel S. Grossman, West Virginia University and NBER David Slusky, University of Kansas and NBER Office Visits Preventing Emergency Room Visits: Evidence from the Flint Water Switch
10:00 am	Break
10:30 am	Benjamin R. Handel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Jonathan T. Kolstad, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Thomas Minten, London School of Economics Johannes Spinnewijn, London School of Economics The Social Determinants of Choice Quality: Evidence from Health Insurance in the Netherlands
11:30 am	Richard Domurat, University of California at Los Angeles Isaac Menashe, Covered California Wesley Yin, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER The Role of Behavioral Frictions in Health Insurance Marketplace Enrollment and Risk: Evidence from a Field Experiment
12:00 pm	Lunch - Parkview Room
1:00 pm	Yiqun Chen, University of Illinois Chicago and NBER Petra Persson, Stanford University and NBER Maria Polyakova, Stanford University and NBER The Roots of Health Inequality and The Value of Intra-Family Expertise
2:00 pm	Abby E. Alpert, University of Pennsylvania and NBER William N. Evans, University of Notre Dame and NBER Ethan Lieber, University of Notre Dame and NBER David Powell, RAND Corporation Origins of the Opioid Crisis and Its Enduring Impacts
2:30 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Yunan Ji, Georgetown University and NBER Neale Mahoney, Stanford University and NBER Voluntary Regulation: Evidence from Medicare Payment Reform
4:00 pm	Diane E. Alexander, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Molly Schnell, Northwestern University and NBER The Impacts of Physician Payments on Patient Access, Use, and Health
4:30 pm	Adjourn