NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2004

Health Economics Workshop

Michael Grossman, Organizer

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

August 5, 2004

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

8:30 a.m.	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 a.m.	DAVID CARD, UC, Berkeley and NBER
	CARLOS DOBKIN, UC, Santa Cruz
	NICOLE MAESTAS, RAND
	The Impact of Nearly Universal Insurance Coverage On Health Care Utilization and Health: Evidence From Medicare
10:00 a.m.	Break
10:15 a.m.	DAVID CUTLER, Harvard University and NBER
	ROLAND FRYER, Harvard University
	EDWARD GLAESER, Harvard University and NBER
	Why is the Health of Blacks Worse than that of Whites?
11:15 a.m.	Break
11:30 a.m.	KENNETH LEONARD, Columbia University
	JOSHUA GRAFF ZIVIN, Columbia University and NBER
	Outcome Versus Service Based Payments in Health Care:
	Lessons from African Traditional Healers
12:30 p.m.	Lunch
1:30 p.m.	MATTHEW NEIDELL, University of Chicago
	Information, Behavior, and Biology: Using Responses to Smog Alerts to Understand the Relationship between Ozone and Health
2:30 p.m.	Break
2:45 p.m.	ELIZABETH OLTMANS ANANAT, MIT
	JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER
	PHILLIP B. LEVINE, Wellesley College and NBER
	Abortion Legalization and Lifecycle Fertility
3:45 p.m.	Break
4:00 p.m.	AHMED KHWAJA, Duke University
	FRANK SLOAN, Duke University and NBER
	SUKYUNG CHUNG, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
	Learning About Individual Risk and the Decision to Smoke
5:00 p.m.	Adjourn
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