Improving Health Outcomes for an Aging Population

Katherine Baicker, Organizer

November 30 - December 1, 2021

On Zoom.us

Tuesday, November 30
3:00 pm	Welcome and Program Project Overview Katherine Baicker, University of Chicago and NBER
3:10 pm	Anne Case, Princeton University and NBER Angus Deaton, Princeton University and NBER The Great Divide: Education, Despair and Death (P01 Project 1)
3:40 pm	Janet Currie, Princeton University and NBER Anastasia Karpova, Princeton University Dan Zeltzer, Tel Aviv University Do Urgent Care Centers Reduce Medicare Spending? Short Talk (P01 CMS Pilot 42)
3:50 pm	How Health Insurance Affects Care and Outcomes for Chronic Conditions (P01 Project 7) Katherine Baicker, University of Chicago and NBER Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
4:20 pm	Martin B. Hackmann, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Juan S. Rojas, University of California, Los Angeles Nicolas R. Ziebarth, ZEW Mannheim & U Mannheim Creative Financing and Public Moral Hazard: Evidence from Medicaid Supplemental Payments (slides) Short Talk (P01 CMS Pilot 27)
4:30 pm	Break
4:40 pm	Danea Horn, Stanford University Adam Sacarny, Columbia University and NBER R. Annetta Zhou, RAND Corporation Technology Adoption and Market Allocation: The Case of Robotic Surgery (slides) (P01 Project 6)
5:10 pm	Jessica Van Parys, Hunter College and NBER Itzik Fadlon, University of California, San Diego and NBER Primary Care Physician Practice Styles and Patient Care: Evidence from Physician Exits in Medicare (slides) Short Talk (P01 CMS Pilot 4)
5:20 pm	Maya M. Durvasula, Stanford University Lisa L. Ouellette, Stanford University Heidi L. Williams, Dartmouth College and NBER Private and Public Investments in Biomedical Research (slides) (P01 Project 8)
5:50 pm	The Impact of COVID-19 on Mortality Inequality (P01 COVID Supplement) Not livestreamed Derek Chapman, VCU Health Janet Currie, Princeton University and NBER Jonathan Kowarski, University of California, Los Angeles Hannes Schwandt, Northwestern University and NBER Till M. von Wachter, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Steven Woolf, VCU Health
6:00 pm	Adjourn
Wednesday, December 1
11:00 am	Simone Balestra, University of St. Gallen Helge Liebert, University of Zurich Nicole Maestas, Harvard University and NBER Tisamarie B. Sherry, RAND Corporation Behavioral Responses to Supply-Side Drug Policy During the Opioid Epidemic (P01 Project 2)
11:30 am	Zarek C. Brot-Goldberg, University of Chicago and NBER Timothy Layton, Harvard University and NBER Boris Vabson, Harvard University Adelina Yanyue Wang, Stanford University The Behavioral Foundations of Default Effects: Theory and Evidence from Medicare Part D Short Talk (P01 CMS Pilot 26)
11:40am	Ziad Obermeyer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Sendhil Mullainathan, University of Chicago and NBER Diagnosing Physician Error: A Machine Learning Approach to Low-Value Health Care Short Talk (P01 Project 4)
12:10 pm	Leila Agha, Harvard University and NBER Keith Marzilli Ericson, Boston University and NBER Kimberley Geissler, University of Massachusetts at Amherst James B. Rebitzer, Boston University and NBER Team Relationships and Performance: Evidence from Healthcare Referral Networks Short Talk (P01 CMS Pilot 22)
12:20 pm	Break
12:30 pm	Outcomes-Based Payments and Physician Productivity: Evidence from Diabetes Care in Hawaii (P01 Project 5) Benjamin R. Handel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Jonathan T. Kolstad, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
1:00 pm	Martin Gaynor, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Adam Sacarny, Columbia University and NBER Raffaella Sadun, Harvard University and NBER Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER Shruthi Venkatesh, Carnegie Mellon University The Anatomy of a Hospital System Merger: The Patient Did Not Respond Well to Treatment (slides) Short Talk (P01 CMS Pilot 33)
1:10 pm	Impacts of a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Intervention to Alleviate Loneliness among the Elderly: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Tamil Nadu, India (P01 Project 3) Madeline McKelway, Darthmouth College Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
1:40 pm	William N. Evans, University of Notre Dame and NBER Sarah A. Kroeger, University of Notre Dame Elizabeth L. Munnich, University of Louisville Grace Ortuzar Kathryn Wagner, Marquette University Reducing Readmissions by Addressing the Social Determinants of Health Short Talk (P01 CMS Pilot 32)
1:50 pm	Wrap-up Katherine Baicker, University of Chicago and NBER