NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC
RESEARCH, INC. |
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SUMMER INSTITUTE 2007 |
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Aging and Health Care Meetings |
July 23 July 27 |
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Royal Sonesta Hotel |
Parkview Room |
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PROGRAM |
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MONDAY,
JULY 23: |
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Aging
Workshop |
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David Wise, Organizer |
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12:00
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Lunch |
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1:00 pm |
Richard Disney, |
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C. Emmerson and M. |
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1:50 pm |
Nabanita Datta Gupta, Danish National Institute of Social Research |
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Evaluating
Wage Subsidies for the Disabled the Danish Flexjob Scheme |
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2:40 pm |
Break |
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3:10 pm |
Hendrik Juerges, |
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4:00 pm |
Adjourn |
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TUESDAY,
JULY 24: |
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Aging
Workshop |
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David Wise, Organizer |
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8:30 am |
Coffee
and Pastries |
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9:00 am |
Helen Levy, |
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David Weir, |
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Take-Up of
Medicare Part D and the SSA Subsidy: Early Results from the Health and
Retirement Survey |
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9:50 am |
Frank Lichtenberg, |
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Why
Has Longevity Increased Faster in Some States Than Others? |
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10:40
am |
Break |
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11:10
am |
TBA |
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12:00 n |
Lunch |
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1:00 pm |
Vicki Freeman, |
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Rucker Johnson, UC, Berkeley |
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Jeannette Rogowski, |
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Robert Schoeni, |
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Neighborhoods and the Health of
Elderly Americans |
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1:50 pm |
Doug Almond, |
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Hongbin Li and Junsen Zhang,
The |
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Long-term
Effects of the 1959-1961 China Famine: Mainland China and Hong Kong |
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2:40 pm |
Break |
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3:10 pm |
Jonathan Skinner, |
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The Impact of Health and Health
Care Expenditures on Future Retirement Security |
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4:00 pm |
Adjourn |
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 25: |
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Social
Security Workshop |
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(Joint
Session with Public Economics) |
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Jeffrey Liebman and Andrew
Samwick, Organizers |
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8:15 am |
Coffee
and Pastries |
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8:45 am |
JEFFREY
R. BROWN, |
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MARCUS
CASEY, |
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OLIVIA
S. MITCHELL, |
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Who Values the Annuity from
Social Security? New Evidence from the
Health and Retirement Study |
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9:45 am |
Break |
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10:00
am |
JOHN
AMERIKS, The Vanguard Group |
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ANDREW
CAPLIN, |
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STEVEN
LAUFER, |
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STIJN
VAN NIEUWERBURGH, |
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The Joy of Giving or Assisted
Living? Using Strategic Surveys to Separate Bequest and Precautionary Motives
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11:00
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Break |
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11:15
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JOSEPH
T. MARCHAND, |
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The Evolution of Private
Pensions, Risk-Sharing, and the Variance in Assets |
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12:15
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Lunch |
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1:15 pm |
ANDREW
SAMWICK, |
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Changing Progressivity as a
Means of Risk Protection in Investment-Based Social Security Reform |
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2:15 pm |
Break |
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2:30 pm |
DAVID
E. BLOOM, DAVID CANNING, GUNTHER FINK, and |
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JOCEYLYN
E. FINLAY, |
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Demographic Change, Social
Security Systems and Labor Supply |
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3:35 pm |
TILL
VON WACHTER, |
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JAE
SONG and JOYCE |
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Recent Changes in Social Security
Disability Rolls and the Employment Effects of Disability Insurance: An
Analysis using 25 Years of Longitudinal Administrative Records |
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4:30 pm |
Adjourn |
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6:00 pm |
Clambake,
Harvard Faculty Club, |
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THURSDAY, JULY 26: |
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Health
Care/Productiviity/Aging Joint Workshop |
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Ernst Berndt, David Wise, David Cutler and Alan M. Garber,
Organizers |
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8:30 am |
Coffee and Pastries |
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9:00 am |
AMITABH CHANDRA, |
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DOUGLAS STAIGER, |
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The Economics of Treatment Disparities in Healthcare |
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9:50 am |
Break |
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10:05 am |
DANA GOLDMAN , RAND
Corporation and NBER |
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JOHN A. ROMLEY, RAND
Corporation |
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The Cost of Quality in Hospitals:
A Revealed-Preference Approach |
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10:55 am |
DARIUS LAKDAWALLA and NEERAJ
SOOD, RAND Corporation and NBER |
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The Welfare Effects of Public Drug Insurance |
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12:00 pm |
Lunch |
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1:00 pm |
Panel of speakers |
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1:50 pm |
Break |
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2:05 pm |
FRANK R. LICHTENBERG, |
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The Effect of Chemotherapy Innovation on Cancer Survival,
1991-2003: State-level Evidence from
the SEER-Medicare Linked Database |
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2:55 pm |
Break |
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3:10 pm |
JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER |
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DAVID RODRIGUEZ, MIT |
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How Much Uncompensated Care Do Doctors Provide? |
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4:00 pm |
Adjourn |
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FRIDAY, JULY 27: |
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8:30 am |
Coffee and Pastries |
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9:00 am |
KYNA FONG, |
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MICHAEL SCHWARZ, Yahoo!
Research and NBER |
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Toward an Efficient Mechanism for Prescription Drug Procurement |
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9:50 am |
Break |
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10:05 am |
LEEMORE DAFNY, Northwestern
University and NBER |
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Are Health Insurance Markets Competitive? A Test of Direct Price Discrimination |
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10:55 am |
Break |
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11:10 am |
RICHARD G. FRANK, |
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KARINE LAMIRAUD, |
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Choice, Price Competition and Complexity in Markets for Health
Insurance |
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12:00 pm |
RICHARD HIRTH, MARC TURENNE,
JACK WHEELER, QING PAN, and JOSEPH MESSANA, |
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Provider Monitoring and Pay-for-Performance When Multiple Providers
Affect Outcomes: An Application to
Renal Dialysis |
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1:00 pm |
Lunch and Adjourn |
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6/25/07 |
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