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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Health Economics Program Meeting

Michael Grossman and Ted Joyce, Organizers

May 6, 2011

NBER
3^rd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

Thursday, May 5, 2011
6:30 pm	Dinner Legal Sea Foods Kendall Square 5 Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA 02139
Friday, May 6, 2011
7:45 am	Shuttle Van Departs the Royal Sonesta for the NBER
8:00 am	Shuttle Van Departs the Royal Sonesta for the NBER
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	Dean Lillard and Eamon Molloy, Cornell University Andrew Sfekas, Temple University Smoking Initiation and the Iron Law of Demand
9:30 am	Break
9:45 am	George Wehby, University of Iowa Jason Hockenberry, University of Iowa and NBER Impact of Child Health and Disability on Subsequent Maternal Fertility
10:45 am	Break
11:00 am	Pinar Karaca-Mandic, University of Minnesota and NBER Dana Goldman, University of Southern California and NBER Geoffrey Joyce, University of Southern California and NBER Private Insurance and Outcomes for Children with Asthma
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Marah A. Curtis, Boston University Hope Corman and Kelly Noonan, Rider University and NBER Nancy Reichman, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Life Shocks and Homelessness
2:00 pm	Break
2:15 pm	Robert Kaestner, University of Illinois at Chicago and NBER Ben Yarnoff, University of Illinois at Chicago Association Between Maternal and Infant Weight: 1980 to 2008
3:15 pm	Andrew Francis, Hugo Mialon and Handie Peng, Emory University The Effects of Same-Sex Marriage Laws on Public Health and Welfare
4:15 pm	Adjourn
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