SI 2019 Health Care

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

July 25-26, 2019

Charles Suites

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

Conference Code of Conduct

Wednesday, July 24
6:00 pm
Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Thursday, July 25
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Benjamin R. Handel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jonathan T. Kolstad, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Allyson Root, Amazon
Michael D. Whinston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Outcomes-Based Payments and Physician Productivity: Evidence from Diabetes Care in Hawaii
10:00 am
Bradley Shapiro, University of Chicago and NBER

Promoting Wellness or Waste: Evidence from Antidepressant Advertising
11:00 am
Break
11:30 am
Emily Oster, Brown University and NBER

Behavioral Feedback: Do Individual Choices Influence Scientific Results?
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:15 pm
Caitlin Carroll, University of Minnesota

Impeding Access or Promoting Efficiency? Effects of Rural Hospital Closure on the Cost and Quality of Care
2:15 pm
Sarah Miller, University of Michigan and NBER
Laura R. Wherry, New York University and NBER

Medicaid and Mortality: New Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data
2:45 pm
Break
3:15 pm
David C. Chan Jr, Stanford University and NBER
Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER
Chuan Yu, Stanford University

Selection with Variation in Diagnostic Skill: Evidence from Radiologists
4:15 pm
Adjourn
Remembrances of Martin Feldstein and the Martin Feldstein Lecture follow at 4:30 in the Ballroom
Friday, July 26
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER
Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Tamar Oostrom, The Ohio State University
Abigail J. Ostriker, Harvard University
Heidi L. Williams, Dartmouth College and NBER

Screening and Selection: The Case of Mammograms
10:00 am
Zarek C. Brot-Goldberg, University of Chicago and NBER
Mathijs de Vaan, University of California at Berkeley

Intermediation and Vertical Integration in the Market for Surgeons
11:00 am
Break
11:30 am
Zach Y. Brown, University of Michigan and NBER
Jihye Jeon, Boston University

Endogenous Information Acquisition and Insurance Choice
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
Sendhil Mullainathan, University of Chicago and NBER
Ziad Obermeyer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Are We Over-Testing? Using Machine Learning to Understand Doctors' Decisions
2:30 pm
Leila Agha, Harvard University and NBER
Dan Zeltzer, Tel Aviv University

Drug Diffusion through Peer Networks: The Influence of Industry Payments
3:00 pm
Anne Karing, University of Chicago

Social Signaling and Childhood Immunization: A Field Experiment in Sierra Leone
3:30 pm
Adjourn