NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH,
INC. |
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SUMMER INSTITUTE 2005 |
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Aging and Health Care Workshops |
July 25–July 29, 2005 |
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Royal Sonesta Hotel |
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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM |
MONDAY, JULY
25: |
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AGING
WORKSHOP |
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David Wise,
Organizer |
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10:00 am |
Coffee and pastries |
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10:20 am |
AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT
and NBER |
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JAMES POTERBA, MIT
and NBER |
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11:10 am |
ESTHER DUFLO, MIT
and NBER |
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WILLIAM GALE,
Brookings Institution |
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JEFFREY LIEBMAN, |
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PETER ORSZAG,
Brookings Institution |
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EMMANUEL SAEZ, UC,
Berkeley and NBER |
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12:00 n |
Lunch |
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1:00 pm |
JEFFREY BROWN, |
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COURTNEY COILE, |
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SCOTT WEISBENNER, |
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Effects of
Inheritance Receipt |
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1:50 pm |
MICHAEL D. HURD, RAND
Corporation and NBER |
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SUSANN ROHWEDDER,
RAND Corporation |
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Consumption
and Economic Well-Being at Older Ages |
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2:40 pm |
Break |
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3:10 pm |
ARIE KAPTEYN, ARTHUR
van SOEST |
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and JULIE
ZISSIMOPOULOS, RAND Corporation |
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Using Stated
Preferences Data to Analyze Preferences for Full and Partial Retirement |
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4:00 pm |
ALEJANDRA COX
EDWARDS, |
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ESTELLE JAMES, The
World Bank |
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Do Individual Retirement Accounts Postpone Retirement?
Evidence from Chile |
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4:50 pm |
Adjourn |
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TUESDAY, JULY
26 |
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8:30 am |
Coffee and pastries |
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9:00 am |
DAVID CUTLER, SUSAN
STEWART and REBECCA WOODWARD, |
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9:50 am |
LEEMORE DAFNY,
Northwestern University and NBER |
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DAVID DRANOVE,
Northwestern University |
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Do Report Cards Tell Consumers
Anything They Don't Already Know? The
Case of Medicare HMOs |
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10:40 am |
Break |
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11:10 am |
VINCENZO ATELLA, DOMENICO de PALO, FRANCO PERACCHI |
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and CLAUDIO ROSETTI,
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Drug Compliance, Co-payment and Health Outcomes:
Evidence from a Panel of Italian Patients |
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12:00 n |
Lunch |
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1:00 pm |
MARTIN BROWN,
National Cancer Institute |
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DAVID CUTLER, SUSAN
STEWART and REBECCA WOODWARD, |
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1:50 pm |
FRANK LICHTENBERG, |
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Home or Nursing Home? The Effect of Medical
Innovation on the Demand for Long-term Care |
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2:40 pm |
Break |
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3:10 pm |
DARIUS LAKDAWALLA,
RAND Corporation and NBER |
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TOMAS PHILIPSON, |
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RICHARD WANG,
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals |
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4:00 pm |
Adjourn |
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WEDNESDAY,
JULY 27: |
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JOINT SESSION
WITH PUBLIC ECONOMICS |
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Jeffrey
Liebman and Andrew Samwick, Organizers |
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 8:30 am |
Coffee and Pastries |
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 9:00 am |
KENT SMETTERS, |
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Social
Security Privatization with Elastic Labor Supply and Second-BestTaxes |
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10:00 am |
ISAAC EHRLICH, |
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JINYOUNG KIM, |
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Social
Security, Demographic Trends, and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence from
the International Experience |
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11:00 am |
Break |
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11:30 am |
MARK DUGGAN, |
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PERRY SINGLETON, |
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The Increase
in Social Security's |
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12:30 pm |
Lunch |
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 1:30 pm |
JAMES
CHOI, |
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DAVID LAIBSON, |
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BRIGITTE
MADRIAN, |
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Not All Information is Created
Equal: Using Salience to Manipulate Financial Decisions |
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 2:30 pm |
Break |
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 3:00 pm |
JOYCE |
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New Evidence
on Earnings and Benefit Claims Following the Removal of the Retirement
Earnings Test in 2000 |
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 4:00 pm |
NICOLE MAESTAS, RAND
Corporation |
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Back to Work:
Expectations and Realizations of Work After Retirement |
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 5:00 pm |
Adjourn |
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 6:00 pm |
Clambake, Harvard
Faculty Club, |
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THURSDAY,
JULY 28: |
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 8:30 am |
Coffee and Pastries |
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HEALTH
CARE/AGING/PRODUCTIVITY WORKSHOP |
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Ernst Berndt,
David Cutler, and Alan Garber, Organizers |
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 9:00 am |
MICHAEL CHERNEW and
ROBERT TOWN, |
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PHIL DECICCA, |
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Managed Care and
Medicare Expenditures |
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 9:50 am |
Break |
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10:05 am |
JAY BHATTACHARYA and
KATE BUNDORF, |
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The Incidence
of the Healthcare Costs of Obesity |
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10:55 am |
JASON BARRO, |
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ROBERT HUCKMAN, |
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DANIEL KESSLER, |
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The Effects
of Specialty Hospitals on The Cost and Quality of Medical Care |
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12:00 N |
Lunch |
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 1:00 pm |
JOHN CAWLEY, |
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JOHN RIZZO, SUNY,
Stony Brook |
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Do
Prescription Drug Withdrawals Yield Competitive Benefits to, or Impose
Negative Spillovers on, Remaining Drugs in the Therapeutic Class? |
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 1:50 pm |
Break |
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 2:05 pm |
CHRISTOPHER ADAMS
and VAN V. BRANTNER, Federal Trade Commission |
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Estimating
the Costs of New Drug Development: Is it really $802m? |
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 2:55 pm |
Break |
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 3:10 pm |
JONATHAN C. JAVITT,
Potomac Institute for Policy Studies |
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JAMES B. REBITZER, |
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LONNY REISMAN,
ActiveHealth Management |
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Information
Technology and Medical Errors: Evidence from a Randomized Trial |
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 4:00 pm |
Adjourn |
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FRIDAY, JULY
29: |
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 8:30 AM |
Coffee and Pastries |
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 9:00 am |
STEPHEN T. PARENTE,
ROGER FELDMAN, JEAN ABRAHAM, |
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and JON
CHRISTIANSON, |
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Assessing the Impact of Health Savings Accounts on
Insurance and Coverage Costs |
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 9:50 am |
Break |
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10:05 am |
KATHERINE BAIKER and
AMITABH CHANDRA, |
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The Labor
Market Effects of Rising Health Insurance Premiums |
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10:55 am |
Break |
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11:10 am |
HELEN LEVY, |
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12:00 n |
DAVID CARD, UC,
Berkeley and NBER |
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CARLOS DOBKIN, UC, Santa Cruz |
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NICOLE MAESTAS, RAND
Corporation |
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The Impact of
Health Insurance Status on Treatment Intensity and Health Outcomes |
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 1:00 pm |
Lunch and Adjourn |
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6/5/05 |
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