SI 2018 Health Care

Jonathan Gruber, Organizer

July 26-27, 2018

Charles Suites

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

Conference Code of Conduct

Wednesday, July 25
6:00 pm
Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Thursday, July 26
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Ami Ko, Georgetown University

Partial Rating Area Offering in the ACA Marketplaces: Facts, Theory and Evidence
10:00 am
Kate Bundorf, Duke University and NBER
Maria Polyakova, Stanford University and NBER
Ming Tai-Seale, University of California, San Diego

Delegating Decision-Making to the Machine: Experimental Evidence from Health Insurance
10:30 am
Thomas P. Hoe, Cornell University
Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
George P. Stoye, Institute for Fiscal Studies

Saving Lives by Tying Hands: The Unexpected Effects of Constraining Health Care Providers
11:00 am
Break
11:30 am
Nikhil Agarwal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Itai Ashlagi, Stanford University
Eduardo M. Azevedo, University of Pennsylvania
Clayton Featherstone, University of Pennsylvania
Ömer Karaduman, Stanford University

Market Failure in Kidney Exchange
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
Diego A. Comin, Dartmouth College and NBER
Jonathan S. Skinner, Dartmouth College and NBER
Douglas O. Staiger, Dartmouth College and NBER

Overconfidence and the Diffusion of Medical Technology
2:30 pm
Michael Darden, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
Ian McCarthy, Emory University and NBER
Eric Barrette, Medtronic

Hospital Pricing and Public Payments
3:00 pm
Judit Vall Castelló, Universitat de Barcelona
Arnau Juanmarti, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Guillem Lopez Casasnovas, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

The Deadly Effects Of Losing Health Insurance
3:30 pm
Break
4:00 pm
Molly Schnell, Northwestern University and NBER

Physician Behavior in the Presence of a Secondary Market: The Case of Prescription Opioids
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Friday, July 27
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Keith Marzilli Ericson, Boston University and NBER
Justin R. Sydnor, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER

Liquidity Constraints and the Value of Insurance
10:00 am
Ralph Koijen, University of Chicago and NBER
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Columbia University and NBER

Financing the War on Cancer
10:30 am
Frank R. Lichtenberg, Columbia University and NBER

The Long-Run Impact of New Medical Ideas on Cancer Survival and Mortality
11:00 am
Break
11:30 am
David C. Chan Jr, Stanford University and NBER
Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Triage Judgments in the Emergency Department
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
Adam Leive, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Health Insurance Design Meets Tax Incentives for Saving: Consumer Responses to Complex Contracts
2:30 pm
Yufeng Li, Capital Medical University Beijing
Juanjuan Meng, Peking University
Changcheng Song, University of Florida
Kai Zheng, University of California at Irvine

Information Avoidance and Medical Screening: A Field Experiment in China
3:00 pm
Toshiaki Iizuka, University of Tokyo
Hitoshi Shigeoka, Simon Fraser University and NBER

Free for Children? Patient Cost-sharing and Health Care Utilization
3:30 pm
Break
4:00 pm
Elizabeth L. Munnich, University of Louisville
Michael R. Richards, Cornell University and NBER

Administrative Pricing, Incentive Alignment, and Medical Market Competition
5:00 pm
Adjourn