2nd Floor Conference Room
THURSDAY, APRIL 24:
6:30 PM Dinner
Restaurant Dante
Royal Sonesta Hotel
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, MA 02142
FRIDAY, APRIL 25:
7:45 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass Avenue
8:00 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass Avenue
8:00 AM Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM LISA POWELL, University of Illinois at Chicago
FRANK CHALOUPKA, University of Illinois at Chicago and NBER
Neighborhood Contextual Factors and Child Overweight
9:00 AM ROBERT KAESTNER, University of Illinois at Chicago and NBER
MICHAEL GROSSMAN, City University of New York and NBER
The Effect of Obesity on Educational Achievement
9:30 AM Break
9:45 AM DAVID MELTZER, University of Chicago and NBER
Effects of the Minimum Wage on Obesity
10:15 AM NEERAJ KAUSHAL, Columbia University and NBER
QIN GAO, Fordham University
Food Stamps, Quality of Food Consumption, and Obesity
10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM JOHN CAWLEY, Cornell University and NBER
JOSHUA PRICE, Cornell University
Outcome in a Program that Offers Financial Rewards for Weight Loss Over, Please!
HEALTH ECONOMICS PROGRAM, PAGE 2:
11:30 AM BISHAKHA SEN, STEPHEN MENNEMEYER, and LISA GARY,
University of Alabama at Birmingham
The Relationship between Neighborhood Quality and Obesity among Children
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM DARIUS LAKDAWALLA and DANA GOLDMAN, Rand and NBER
Consequences of Obesity among the Elderly
1:30 PM ROBERT SANDY, Indiana University/Purdue University
RUSTY TCHERNIS Indiana University
Studying the Child Obesity Epidemic with Natural Experiments
2:00 PM Break
2:15 PM CHRISTOPHER RUHM, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and NBER
CHRISTIAN GREGORY, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Where Does the Wage Penalty Bite? Discontinuous Effects of BMI
2:45 PM JAY BHATTACHARYA and KATE BUNDORF, Stanford University and NBER
NOEMI PACE, University of Rome Tor Vergata
NEERAJ SOOD, Rand and NBER
Moral Hazard in Insurance and the Welfare Costs of Obesity
3:15 PM MELAYNE MCINNES, University of South Carolina
JUDY SHINOGLE, University of Maryland
Determinants of Physical Activity
3:45 PM NACI MOCAN, Louisiana State University and NBER
ERDAL TEKIN, Georgia State University and NBER
The Impact of Physical Activity and Food Consumption on Obesity:
Evidence from Siblings and Twins
4:15 PM Adjourn
2/26/08