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
| 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 |
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| 10:00 am |
Bradley Shapiro, University of Chicago and NBER Promoting Wellness or Waste: Evidence from Antidepressant Advertising |
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| 11:00 am | Break | |
| 11:30 am |
Emily Oster, Brown University and NBER Behavioral Feedback: Do Individual Choices Influence Scientific Results? |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 2:45 pm | Break | |
| 3:15 pm |
David C. Chan Jr, Stanford University and NBER Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER Chuan Yu, Harvard University Selection with Variation in Diagnostic Skill: Evidence from Radiologists |
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| 4:15 pm |
Adjourn Remembrances of Martin Feldstein and the Martin Feldstein Lecture follow at 4:30 in the Ballroom |
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| 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 and NBER Abigail J. Ostriker, Harvard University Heidi L. Williams, Dartmouth College and NBER Screening and Selection: The Case of Mammograms |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 2:30 pm |
Leila Agha, Harvard University and NBER Dan Zeltzer, Tel Aviv University Drug Diffusion through Peer Networks: The Influence of Industry Payments |
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| 3:00 pm |
Anne Karing, University of Chicago Social Signaling and Childhood Immunization: A Field Experiment in Sierra Leone |
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| 3:30 pm | Adjourn | |