NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2005

 

Aging and Health Care Workshops

July 25–July 29, 2005

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 25:

 

 

 

AGING WORKSHOP

 

David Wise, Organizer

 

 

10:00 am

Coffee and pastries

 

 

10:20 am

AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT and NBER

 

JAMES POTERBA, MIT and NBER

 

Adverse Selection and the Choice of Risk Factors in Insurance Pricing:  Evidence from the UK Annuity Market

 

 

11:10 am

ESTHER DUFLO, MIT and NBER

 

WILLIAM GALE, Brookings Institution

 

JEFFREY LIEBMAN, Harvard University and NBER

 

PETER ORSZAG, Brookings Institution

 

EMMANUEL SAEZ, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

Saving Incentives for Low- and Middle-Income Families: Evidence from a Field Experiment with H & R Block

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

JEFFREY BROWN, University of Illinois and NBER

 

COURTNEY COILE, Wellesley College and NBER

 

SCOTT WEISBENNER, University of Illinois and NBER

 

Effects of Inheritance Receipt

 

 

1:50 pm

MICHAEL D. HURD, RAND Corporation and NBER

 

SUSANN ROHWEDDER, RAND Corporation

 

Consumption and Economic Well-Being at Older Ages

 

 

2:40 pm

Break

 

 

3:10 pm

ARIE KAPTEYN, ARTHUR van SOEST

 

and JULIE ZISSIMOPOULOS, RAND Corporation

 

Using Stated Preferences Data to Analyze Preferences for Full and Partial Retirement

 

 

4:00 pm

ALEJANDRA COX EDWARDS, California State University, Long Beach

 

ESTELLE JAMES, The World Bank

 

Do Individual Retirement Accounts Postpone Retirement? Evidence from Chile

 

 

4:50 pm

Adjourn

 

 

TUESDAY, JULY 26

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and pastries

 

 

9:00 am

DAVID CUTLER, SUSAN STEWART and REBECCA WOODWARD,

 

Harvard University and NBER

 

A Proposed Method for Monitoring U.S. Population Health:  Linking Symptoms, Impairments, Chronic Conditions, and Health Ratings

 

 

9:50 am

LEEMORE DAFNY, Northwestern University and NBER

 

DAVID DRANOVE, Northwestern University

 

Do Report Cards Tell Consumers Anything They Don't Already Know?  The Case of Medicare HMOs

 

 

10:40 am

Break

 

 

11:10 am

VINCENZO ATELLA, DOMENICO de PALO, FRANCO PERACCHI

 

and CLAUDIO ROSETTI, University of Rome Tor Vergata

 

Drug Compliance, Co-payment and Health Outcomes: Evidence from a Panel of Italian Patients

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

MARTIN BROWN, National Cancer Institute

 

DAVID CUTLER, SUSAN STEWART and REBECCA WOODWARD,

 

Harvard University and NBER

 

The Value of Medical Advances for Lung Cancer: 1980-1997

 

 

1:50 pm

FRANK LICHTENBERG, Columbia University and NBER

 

Home or Nursing Home? The Effect of Medical Innovation on the Demand for Long-term Care

 

 

2:40 pm

Break

 

 

3:10 pm

DARIUS LAKDAWALLA, RAND Corporation and NBER

 

TOMAS PHILIPSON, University of Chicago and NBER

 

RICHARD WANG, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals

 

Intellectual Property and Marketing

 

 

4:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 27:

 

 

 

JOINT SESSION WITH PUBLIC ECONOMICS

 

Jeffrey Liebman and Andrew Samwick, Organizers

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

KENT SMETTERS, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Social Security Privatization with Elastic Labor Supply and Second-BestTaxes

 

 

10:00 am

ISAAC EHRLICH, University of Buffalo and NBER

 

JINYOUNG KIM, University of Buffalo

 

Social Security, Demographic Trends, and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence from the International Experience

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

MARK DUGGAN, University of Maryland and NBER

 

PERRY SINGLETON, University of Maryland

 

The Increase in Social Security's Normal Retirement Age and the Rise in the Disability Rolls: Is There a Causal Connection?

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:30 pm

JAMES CHOI, Yale University

 

DAVID LAIBSON, Harvard University and NBER

 

BRIGITTE MADRIAN, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Not All Information is Created Equal: Using Salience to Manipulate Financial Decisions

 

 

 2:30 pm

Break

 

 

 3:00 pm

JOYCE MANCHESTER and JAE SONG, Social Security Administration

 

New Evidence on Earnings and Benefit Claims Following the Removal of the Retirement Earnings Test in 2000

 

 

 4:00 pm

NICOLE MAESTAS, RAND Corporation

 

Back to Work: Expectations and Realizations of Work After Retirement

 

 

 5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 28:

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 

HEALTH CARE/AGING/PRODUCTIVITY WORKSHOP

 

Ernst Berndt, David Cutler, and Alan Garber, Organizers

 

 

 9:00 am

MICHAEL CHERNEW and ROBERT TOWN, University of Michigan and NBER

 

PHIL DECICCA, University of Michigan

 

Managed Care and Medicare Expenditures

 

 

 9:50 am

Break

 

 

10:05 am

JAY BHATTACHARYA and KATE BUNDORF, Stanford University and NBER

 

The Incidence of the Healthcare Costs of Obesity

 

 

10:55 am

JASON BARRO, Harvard University and NBER

 

ROBERT HUCKMAN, Harvard University and NBER

 

DANIEL KESSLER, Stanford University and NBER

 

The Effects of Specialty Hospitals on The Cost and Quality of Medical Care

 

 

12:00 N

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

JOHN CAWLEY, Cornell University and NBER

 

JOHN RIZZO, SUNY, Stony Brook

 

Do Prescription Drug Withdrawals Yield Competitive Benefits to, or Impose Negative Spillovers on, Remaining Drugs in the Therapeutic Class?

 

 

 1:50 pm

Break

 

 

 2:05 pm

CHRISTOPHER ADAMS and VAN V. BRANTNER, Federal Trade Commission

 

Estimating the Costs of New Drug Development: Is it really $802m?

 

 

 2:55 pm

Break

 

 

 3:10 pm

JONATHAN C. JAVITT, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies

 

JAMES B. REBITZER, Case Western Reserve University and NBER

 

LONNY REISMAN, ActiveHealth Management

 

Information Technology and Medical Errors: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

 

 

 4:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

FRIDAY, JULY 29:

 

 

 8:30 AM

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

STEPHEN T. PARENTE, ROGER FELDMAN, JEAN ABRAHAM,

 

and JON CHRISTIANSON, University of Minnesota

 

Assessing the Impact of Health Savings Accounts on Insurance and Coverage Costs

 

 

 9:50 am

Break

 

 

10:05 am

KATHERINE BAIKER and AMITABH CHANDRA, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

The Labor Market Effects of Rising Health Insurance Premiums

 

 

10:55 am

Break

 

 

11:10 am

HELEN LEVY, University of Michigan and NBER

 

Health Insurance and the Wage Gap

 

 

12:00 n

DAVID CARD, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

CARLOS DOBKIN, UC, Santa Cruz

 

NICOLE MAESTAS, RAND Corporation

 

The Impact of Health Insurance Status on Treatment Intensity and Health Outcomes

 

 

 1:00 pm

Lunch and Adjourn

 

 

 

 

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