NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2004

 

Health Care/Aging Workshop

Alan Garber, Organizer

 

Productivity/Health Care/Aging Joint Workshop

Ernst Berndt, Alan Garber and David Wise, Organizers

 

August 5 and 6, 2004

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, AUGUST 5

 

 

 8:30 AM

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

HEALTH CARE/AGING WORKSHOP

 

 

 9:00 AM

BO HONORE, Princeton University

 

ADRIANA LLERAS-MUNEY, Princeton University and NBER

 

Bounds in Competing Risks Models and War on Cancer

 

 

 9:50 AM

Break

 

 

10:05 AM

DAVID GRABOWSKI, University of Alabama

 

JON GRUBER, MIT and NBER

 

Moral Hazard in Nursing Home Use

 

 

 

 

 

 

10:55 AM

DANA GOLDMAN and DARIUS LAKDAWALLA, RAND Corporation and NBER

 

NEERAJ SOOD, RAND Corporation

 

HIV Breakthroughs and Risky Sexual Behavior

 

 

12:00 N

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 PM

HELEN LEVY, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Effect of Insurance Status on Access

 

 

 1:50 PM

Break

 

 

2:05 PM

JAY BHATTACHARYA, Stanford University and NBER

 

WILLIAM VOGT, Carnegie-Mellon and NBER

 

Employment and Adverse Selection in Health Insurance

 

 

 2:55 PM

Break

 

 

 3:10 PM

AMITABH CHANDRA and DOUGLAS STAIGER, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

Geographic Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from the Treatment of Heart Attacks

 

 

 4:00 PM

Adjourn

 

 

FRIDAY, AUGUST 6:

 

 

 8:30 AM

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

PRODUCTIVITY/HEALTH CARE/AGING JOINT WORKSHOP

 

 

 9:00 AM

AMY FINKELSTEIN, Harvard University and NBER

 

Health Insurance and the Growth of Health Spending: Evidence from the Introduction of Medicare

 

 

 9:50 AM

Break

 

 

10:05 AM

GAUTAM GOWRISANKARAN, Washington University and NBER

 

ROBERT TOWN, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

Managed Care, Drug Benefits and Mortality: An Analysis of the Elderly

 

 

10:55 AM

Break

 

 

11:10 a.m.

FRANK LICHTENBERG, Columbia University and NBER

 

The Impact of New Drug Launches on Longevity:

 

Evidence From Longitudinal Disease-Level Data from 52 Countries: 1982-2001

 

 

12:00 noon

WILLIAM MARDER, MedStat NBER

 

Can Health-Care Claims Data Improve the Estimation of the Medical CPI?

 

 

1:00 p.m.

Lunch and Adjourn

 

 

6/4/04