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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
 

SI 2015 Health Economics

Michael Grossman and Theodore J. Joyce, Organizers

July 20, 2015

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Longfellow Room
40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

9:00 am

Victor Lavy, University of Warwick and NBER
Analia Schlosser, Tel Aviv University
Adi Shani, Hebrew University
Out of Africa: Human Capital Consequences of In Utero Conditions
 

10:00 am

Break

10:15 am

John Cawley, Cornell University and NBER

David Just, Cornell University

Drew Hanks, Ohio State University

Brian Wansink, Cornell University
Incentivizing Nutritious Diets: A Field Experiment of Relative Prices and How they are Framed
 

11:15 am

Break

11:30 am

Abby Friedman, Yale University
How do Electronic Cigarettes affect Adolescent Smoking?
 

12:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm

Onur Altindag, City University of New York
Theodore J. Joyce, City University of New York and NBER
Julie A. Reeder, Oregon WIC Program
Effects of Peer Counseling to Support Breastfeeding: Assessing the External Validity of a Randomized Field Experiment
 

2:30 pm

Break

2:45 pm

Booyuel Kim, KDI School of Public Policy and Management
Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Cornell University,

Cristian Pop-Eleches, Columbia University and NBER
Externalities and Complementarities of HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs: Evidence from Secondary Schools in Malawi
 

3:45 pm

Break

4:00 pm

Hunt Allcott, New York University and NBER
Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University
Jean-Pierre H. Dube, University of Chicago and NBER
The Geography of Poverty and Nutrition: Food Deserts and Food Choices Across the United States

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn