May 9, 2007
Results of 2007 iHEA Election
Thanks to everyone who participated in this election for the Presidency and the Board of Directors. Here are the results:
Uwe Reinhardt was elected as iHEA President-Elect. The four new members of the Board of Directors will be David Cutler, Robert G. Evans, Alistair McGuire, and Mandy Ryan.
Congratulations to our new president-elect and board members and we’d like to wish them a very productive term on the Board.
April 3, 2007
Notice of iHEA Election
All members of iHEA and ASHE with up-to-date 2007 membership are eligible to vote in the 2007 Presidential and Board Election. For more information and to cast your ballot, please visit our election page.
Election closes April 30.
December 27, 2006
ASSA/AEA Chicago - Health Economics Related Sessions
For your convenience, we are providing a list of sessions and papers being presented at the ASSA Meetings In Chicago with a Health Economics related theme.
AEA/iHEA session - Swissotel, January 6, 10:15am
iHEA Session - Swissotel, January 6, 2:30pm
[ Note that if there are still spaces available for the ASHE Luncheon in the Swissotel, Grand Ballroom I on January 6, 12:30pm (Speaker: James Poterba, “Tax Reform and Health Insurance”) $45 USD. Register Today ]
Health Economics Related Sessions & Papers
Jan. 5, 8:00 am
AEA: Model Validation and Model Comparison (C5)
HANMING FANG, MICHAEL KEANE, Yale University, AHMED KHWAJA, MARTIN SALM, Duke University, and DAN SILBERMAN, University of Michigan
“Using Data on Expectations to Validate a Structural Model of Investment in Health”AEA: Natural Field Experiments in Development Economics (O1)
EDWARD MIGUEL, SARAH BAIRD, University of California-Berkeley, and MICHAEL KREMER, Harvard University
“Experimental Evidence on Long-Run Impacts of Child Health in Kenya”HERO: The Economics of Obesity
Presiding: TOMAS PHILIPSON, University of Chicago
JOHN CAWLEY, JOHN MORAN, and KOSALI SIMON, Cornell University
“You Can Never Be Too Rich or Too Thin”
JAY BHATTACHARYA and KATE BUNDORF, Stanford University
“Incidence of Health Care Costs of Obesity”
LAN LIANG and BARBARA SCHONE, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
“Health Insurance and Obesity”LERA: Work Organization in Healthcare: Organizing for Superior Patient Care
Presiding: DANA WEINBERG, Queen’s College (invited)
TIMOTHY VOGUS, Vanderbilt University
“Organizing for Patient Safety on Hospital Nursing Units”
JODY HOFFER GITTELL, Brandeis University
“Linking Organization Design and Networks to Improve the Coordination of Care”
SAUL RUBINSTEIN and CHARLES HECKSCHER, Rutgers University
“Organizational Collaboration and the Quality of Health Care Delivery”
ANN FROST, University of Western Ontario, BRIAN GOLDEN, University of Toronto, and CLAUDIO MARTIN, University of Western Ontario
“Coordinating Patient Care in the Intensive Care Unit”SGE: Child Care and the American Time Use Survey
Presiding: CHARLENE M. KALENKOSKI, Ohio University
CHARLENE M. KALENKOSKI, Ohio University, DAVID C. RIBAR, George Washington University, and LESLIE S. STRATTON, Virginia Commonwealth University
“Family Structure and Adolescents’ Time Use”
JEAN KIMMEL, Western Michigan University, and RACHEL CONNELLY, Bowdoin College
“Time Allocation in a Family Setting: Constructing Synthetic Couples with the ATUS”
MARY DORINDA ALLARD, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, SUZANNE BIANCHI, University of Maryland, and JAY STEWART, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
“How Does Employment Affect the Timing of Time with Children?”
ANNE E. WINKLER and THOMAS R. IRELAND, University of Missouri-St. Louis
“Time Spent in Household Management: Implications for Forensic Economic Analysis”
Jan. 5, 10:15 am
AFEA: Institutions, Policy and Micro and Sectoral Performance in African Countries
Presiding: OLADELE OMOSEGBON, Indiana Wesleyan University
MESFIN BEZUNEH and ZELEALEM YIHEYIS, Clark Atlanta University
“Has Trade Liberalization Reduced the Incidence of Malnutrition in Developing Countries?”
ELIZABETH ASIEDU, University of Kansas, and BOAZ NANDWA, Yale University
“Explaining the Differences in HIV/AIDS Infection Rates in Sub-Saharan Africa”AEA: Asymmetric Information and Moral Hazard in Insurance Markets (D8)
Presiding: HANMING FANG, Yale University
PATRICK BAJARI, University of Michigan, HAN HONG, and AHMED KHWAJA, Duke University
“Semiparametric Analysis of Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard in Health Insurance Contracts”
AMY FINKELSTEIN and JAMES POTERBA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Testing for Adverse Selection with ‘Unused Observables’”
LIRAN EINAV, Stanford University, and AMY FINKELSTEIN, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“The Costs and Benefits of Choice in Social Insurance: Evidence from the UK Annuity Market”
HANMING FANG, MICHAEL KEANE, Yale University, and DAN SILVERMAN, University of Michigan
“Sources of Advantageous Selection: Evidence from the Medigap Insurance Market”AEA: The Relationship between Education and Well-Being (I2)
Presiding: JOSHUA ANGRIST, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ADRIANA LLERAS-MUNEY, Princeton University, and DAVID CUTLER, Harvard University
“Education and Health: Evaluating Theories and Evidence”
SUSAN DYNARSKI, Harvard University
“How Does College Change Women’s Lives?”
PHILIP OREOPOULOS, University of Toronto
“Wealth and Happiness from Compulsory Schooling: Recent Evidence from Raising the School Leaving Age to 18 in the United States”
MAKI UEYAMA, DEAN LILLARD, and KOSALI SIMON, Cornell University
“How Does Parental Education Affect Child Health?”AEA/HERO: Economics of Medical Care “Report Cardsâ€
Presiding: DONALD E. YETT, University of Southern California
LORENS HELMCHEN and ANTHONY T. LOSASSO, University of Illinois-Chicago
“How Much Performance Can P4P Buy?”
LEEMORE DAFNY and DAVID DRANOVE, Northwestern University
“Do Report Cards Tell Consumers Anything They Don’t Already Know?”
DENNIS SCANLON, Pennsylvania State University, JON CHRISTIANSON, University of Minnesota, and RICHARD LINDROOTH, Medical University of South Carolina
“The Effect of a Hospital Safety Incentive and Hospital Reports in an Employed Population”ES: The Modern Workplace: Firm Organization, Worker Training and Job Characteristics
JULIA LANE, University of Chicago, FREDRIK ANDERSSON, Cornell University, and IBEN BOLVIG, University of Aarhus
“Lost Jobs and Health Insurance: An Analysis of the Impact of Employment Volatility on Firm provided Health Insurance Coverage”ES: Retirement and Health
Presiding: JOHN RUST, University of Maryland
HUGO BENÃTEZ-SILVA, State University of New York-Stony Brook, SELCUK EREN, State University of New York-Stony Brook and Hamilton College, FRANK HEILAND, Florida State University, and SERGI JIMÉNEZ-MARTÃN, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
“Wealth, Retirement Well-Being, and Realized and Unrealized Capital Gains”
MARIACRISTINA DENARDI, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and University of Minnesota, ERIC FRENCH, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and JOHN JONES, State University of New York-Albany
“Differential Mortality, Uncertain Medical Expenses, and the Savings of Elderly Singles”
HUGO BENITEZ-SILVA, State University of New York-Stony Brook, J. IGNACIO GARCIA-PEREZ, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, and SERGI JIMENEZ-MARTIN, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
“Cross Country Comparison of the Effects of Social Security and Employment Uncertainty on the Labor Supply and Search Behavior of Older Workers”
DAVID A. LOVE, Williams College, and PAUL A. SMITH, Federal Reserve Board
“Cracking Open the Nest Egg: Are Older Households Withdrawing Too Fast from Their DC Plans?”SGE: “Approaches for Measuring the Cost of Health Care Services”
Presiding: JACK TRIPLETT, Brookings Institution
ALLISON ROSEN, University of Michigan, and DAVID CUTLER, Harvard University
“Trends in Disease Costs in the U.S.”
ANA AIZCORBE and NICOLE NESTORIAK, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
“Tracking Changes in Health Care Costs Using Episode-Based Price Indexes: Issues and Estimates”
ALAN WHITE and JAISON ABEL, Analysis Group
“Use of Claims Data in Constructing Price Indexes for Medical Services”
RALPH BRADLEY, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
“Can Health Claims Data Improve the Estimation of BLS’s Medical CPI?”
Jan. 5, 2:30 pm
AEA: The Health of the Young and the Old in the Past and the Present (I1)
Presiding: ROBERT FOGEL, University of Chicago
DORA COSTA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, LORENS HELMCHEN, University of Illinois-Chicago, and SVEN WILSON, Brigham Young University
“Race and Older Age Health in the Twentieth Century”
FRANK SLOAN, Duke University
“Survival and the Changing Role of Chronic Diseases in the Twentieth Century”
WILLIAM EVANS and HENG WEI, University of Maryland
“Postpartum Hospital Stay and the Outcomes of Mothers and Their Newborns”HERO: Health and Aging: Baby Boomers Becoming Senior Citizens
Presiding: MICHAEL GROSSMAN, City University of New York and NBER
ROBERT KAESTNER, University of Illinois-Chicago and NBER
“Medicare and Health Behaviors”
DHAVAL DAVE, Bentley College and NBER, INAS RASHAD, George State University and NBER, and JASMINA SPASOJEVIC, Metropolitan College
“The Effects of Retirement on Physical and Mental Health Outcomes”
DANIEL POLSKY, JALPA DOSHI, University of Pennsylvania, WILLARD MANNING, University of Chicago, JOSÉ ESCARCE, University of California-Los Angeles, JEANNETTE ROGOWSKI, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, SUSAN PADDOCK, RAND Corporation, and LIYI CEN, University of Pennsylvania
“The Health Effects of Health Insurance for the Near-Elderly Uninsured”LERA: Healthcare Restructuring: Implications for Union Strategies
Presiding: DEBRA GERARDI, Creighton University
ARIEL AVGAR, Cornell University
“Treating Conflict: Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Healthcare Industry”
JULIE SADLER, Cornell University
“Nurses: Professionals vs. Union Members”
AMANDA TATTERSALL, University of Sydney
“Success Where Others Fail: Community Unionism in Healthcare, Lessons from Toronto”URPE/IAFFE: Gender and HIV/AIDS: Sexuality, Health, Education and Economic Development (I1)
Presiding: LAURIE NISONOFF, Hampshire College
YAVUZ YASAR, University of Denver
“Gendered Epidemic and De-Gendered Development: HIV/AIDS, Economic Development, and Sexuality in Cambodia”
ESTHER REDMOUNT and MEGAN MCCALLISTER, Colorado College
“AIDS and the Education of Girls in Swaziland with Particular Attention to Orphanages”
MONICA DAS, Delhi University, India, and YAKUB QURAISHI, Secretary, Government of India
“Sexuality and Scourge of the Syndrome- An Indian Contact” CONSOLATA KABONESA, Makere University, Uganda
“Health Sector Reforms, Gender Relations and HIV/AIDS in Hoima District”
Jan. 6, 8:00 am
AEA: Medical Innovation and the Social Value of Health Progress
Presiding: To be announced.
TOMAS PHILIPSON and ANUPAM JENA, University of Chicago
“Innovator Appropriate and the Social Value of Medical Innovation”
KEVIN M. MURPHY and ROBERT H. TOPEL, University of Chicago
“Social Value and the Speed of Innovation”
FRANK R. LICHTENBERG, Columbia University
“The Impact of New Drugs on U.S. Longevity and Medical Expenditure, 1990-2003”AEA: Financial Security in Retirement: How Will Baby Boomers Fare? (D9)
Presiding: OLIVIA MITCHELL, University of Pennsylvania
MICHAEL HURD and SUSANN ROHWEDDER, RAND
“Financial Security in Retirement in Face of Rising Health Care Costs”
AXEL BOERSCH-SUPAN, Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging
“Transitioning to Individual Accounts: Consequences for Baby Boomers’ Savings”
ANNAMARIA LUSARDI, Dartmouth College, and OLIVIA MITCHELL, University of Pennsylvania
“Explaining Wealth Holdings Across Cohorts: The Role of Planning Costs and Financial Education”
IRINA GRAFOVA, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey
“Your Money or Your Life: Managing Health, Managing Money”ES: Industrial Organization of Health Care Markets
Presiding: DAVID DRANOVE, Northwestern University
DAVID DRANOVE and MARK SATTERTHWAITE, Northwestern University
“A Model of Bargaining in Option Demand Markets”
KATHERINE HO, Columbia University
“Why So Few Integrated Plans? Simulating the Impact of an Alternative Health Insurance Strategy”
RAJIV SHARMA, Portland State University, MIRON STANO, Oakland University, and RENU GEHRING, Ace-Cube LLP
“Short-Term Fluctuations in Hospital Demand: Implications for Admission, Discharge, and Discriminatory Behavior”
GAUTAM GOWRISANKARAN, Washington University-St. Louis, ROBERT TOWN, University of Michigan, and DENNIS SCANLON, Pennsylvania State University
“Learning and the Value of Information: Evidence from Health Plan Report Cards”
Jan. 6, 10:15 am
AEA: Estimating Models of Consumer Decisions with Applications to Health (I1)
Presiding: DONNA GILLESKIE, University of North Carolina
JEROME ADDA, University College London
“Smoking and Endogenous Mortality: Does Heterogeneity in Life Expectancy Explain Differences in Smoking Behavior”
JOHN BOUND, University of Michigan, TODD STINEBRICKNER, University of Western Ontario, and TIMOTHY WALDMANN, Urban Institute
“Health, Economic Resources, and the Work Decisions of Older Men”
ANDREW CHING, University of Toronto, and FUMIKO HAYASHI, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
“Regulations in Nursing Home Markets: Estimation of a Competitive Model”
AHMED KHWAJA, Duke University
“Investment in Human Capital, Longevity and Moral Hazard in a Stochastic Life-Cycle Model of Demand”AEA: Gender Implications of Social Welfare Policy Choices
Presiding: KATHARINE ABRAHAM, University of Maryland
VIRGINIA WILCOX-GÖK and RUPALI SURYAWANSHI, Northern Illinois University
“Old, Poor, and Untreated? Demand for Prescription Drugs among Older Women in the United States”
HOPE CORMAN, KELLY NOONAN, Rider University, NANCY E. REICHMAN, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and ANNE CARROLL, Rider University
“Why Do Poor Mothers and Children Lose Health Insurance?”
CATALINA AMUEDO-DORANTES, CYNTHIA BANSAK, San Diego State University, and STEVEN RAPHAEL, University of California-Berkeley
“Are Migrant Men and Women an Economic Burden? Changes in the Utilization and Contribution to Public Benefits Surround the 1996 Welfare Reform”
JONATHAN A. SCHWABISH, MICHAEL S. SIMPSON, and JULIE H. TOPOLESKI, Congressional Budget Office
“Achieving Social Security Solvency: Implications for Men and Women”AEA: Beyond Drug and Hospital Costs: Comprehensive Accounting for Health Care (I1)
Presiding: STEVEN J. LANDEFELD, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
ERNST BERNDT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Price and Quantity Growth in Mental Health Care”
ALLISON ROSEN, University of Michigan
“Revising and Expanding National Health Accounts”
MICHAEL CHRISTIAN, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
“Measuring the Price and Output of Health Care Systems”
JOSEPH NEWHOUSE, Harvard University
“Pricing, Information, and Efficiency in the Medical Care Sector”AEA/IHEA: Health and Development in the Developed and Developing Worlds
Presiding: KENNETH CHAY, University of California-Berkeley
CHRISTINA PAXON, Princeton University and NBER, and NORBERT SCHADY, World Bank
“Income Transfers and Children’s Health and Development: Evidence from Ecuador”
MARK ROSENZWEIG, Yale University and NBER
“Underdevelopment and Health: Indoor Air Pollution in South Asia”
JANET CURRIE, Columbia University and NBER
“Healthy, Wealthy and Wise? The Relationship between Health and Human Capital”
MICHAEL GROSSMAN, City University of New York and NBER, SHIN YI-CHOU, Lehigh University and NBER, INAS RASHAD, George State University and NBER, and HENRY SAFFER, Kean University and NBER
“The Economics of Obesity”ASGE/IAFFE: Gender Issues and the Welfare State (H5)
Presiding: JANOS HORVATH, Budapest University of Economic Sciences
EUNYOUNG CHOI, Chungbuk National University
“What’s for the Welfare State? Market Work, Care Work, and Women in Korea”
LISE WIDDING ISAKSEN and SUSAN SAVIDES, University of Bergen
“Transnational Health Care Workers in Norway: Local Adjustments and Integration Strategies”
GANNA GERASYMENKO, Institute for Demography and Social Studies
“Gender Disparities of Aging in the Context of Social Care Services in Ukraine”
Jan. 6, 2:30 pm
AEA: Religion and Fertility (Z1)
Presiding: LAURENCE IANNACCONE, George Mason University
ELI BERMAN, University of California-San Diego, LAURENCE IANNACCONE, George Mason University, and GIUSEPPE RAGUSA, Rutgers University
“From Empty Pews to Empty Cradles: Fertility Decline among European Catholics”
ALICIA ADSERA, University of Illinois-Chicago
“Marital Fertility and Religion in Spain”
SRIYA IYER, Cambridge University, and VANI BOROOAH, University of Ulster
“Missing Women and India’s Religious Demography”
EVELYN LEHRER, University of Illinois-Chicago
“Religious Affiliation and Participation as Determinants of Non-Marital Teen Fertility”AEA: Consumer-Directed Health Care: A Wise Choice? (H5)
Presiding: DANIEL MCFADDEN, University of California-Berkeley
DAVID LAIBSON, Harvard University
“Can Consumers Make Wise Health Care Choices?”
JOACHIM WINTER, FLORIAN HEISS, University of Munich, and DANIEL MCFADDEN, University of California-Berkeley
“Mind the Gap! Consumer Perceptions and Choices of Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans”
DAVID WEIR and HELEN LEVY, University of Michigan
“The Demand for Prescription Drugs and Medicare Part D: Evidence from the Health and Retirement”
MICHAEL HURD, ARIE KAPTEYN, SUSANN ROHWEDDER, and ARTHUR VAN SOEST, RAND Corporation
“Knowledge of Drug Costs and Prescription Drug Insurance Plan Preferences”
Jan. 6, 2:30 pm
- IHEA: Topics in Health Economics (I1)
Presiding: RICHARD ARNOULD, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
KATE BUNDORF and VICTOR FUCHS, Stanford University
“Who Favors National Health Insurance? The Role of Attitudes and Beliefs”
DAVID CUTLER and ELLEN MEARA, Harvard University
“Induced Innovation and Disparities in Health Outcomes”
ANDREW FOSTER, Brown University, and NARESH KUMAR, University of Iowa
“Air Quality Regulation and Respiratory Health in Urban India”
MARK DUGGAN, University of Maryland
“The Impact of Medicare’s Prescription Drug Benefit on Dual Eligibles: Evidence for California’s Medicaid Population”
- IHEA: Topics in Health Economics (I1)
Jan. 7, 8:00 am
ES: Labor Market Dynamics
Presiding: PETRA TODD, University of Pennsylvania
THOMAS C. BUCHMUELLER, University of California-Irvine, and ROBERT G. VALLETTA, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
“The Effect of an Employer Health Insurance Mandate on Health Insurance Coverage and the Demand for Labor: Generalizing from Hawaii’s Experience”HERO: Contributed Papers in Health Economics
Presiding: J. MICHAEL FITZMAURICE, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
ANDREW J. EPSTEIN, Yale University, JONATHAN KETCHAM, Arizona State University, and SEAN NICHOLSON, Cornell University
“Specialization and Sorting in the Obstetrics Market”
BENOIT DOSTIE and PIERRE THOMAS LÉGERE, University of Montreal
“Self-selection in Migration and Returns to Skills”
JAMES B. REBITZER, Case Western Reserve University, JONATHAN C. JAVITT, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, and LONNY REISMAN, Active Health Management, Inc.
“Information Technology and Medical Errors: Evidence from a Randomized Trial”NEA: Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: Twenty years After the Initiative (I1)
Presiding: ALBERT OKUNADE, University of Memphis
SHELLEY IRENE WHITE-MEANS, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
“Racial Bias Among Pharmacy, Nursing, and Medical Students: The Impact of Cultural Competency on Health Disparities”
GREGORY N. PRICE, Jackson State University
“Race, Social Capital, and Health Disparities”
DARRELL J. GASKIN, Johns Hopkins University
“Effects of Residential Segregation and Poverty on Health Care Disparities”
ALVIN E. HEADEN JR., North Carolina State University
“Test of the Opportunity-Cost-of-Time Hypothesis: Differential Rates of Decline in Primary Informal Caregiver Hours of Care for Black and White Elderly Disabled by Limitations in Activities of Daily Living”
Jan. 7, 10:15 am
AEA: Economics and Child Well-Being (J1)
Presiding: MARIANNE PAGE, University of California-Davis
JANET CURRIE, Columbia University, and MARK STABILE, University of Toronto
“Child Mental Health and Human Capital Accumulation”
MICHAEL BAKER, University of Toronto, and KEVIN MILLIGAN, University of British Columbia
“The Impact of Maternity Leaves on Child Outcomes”
MARIANNE PAGE, University of California-Davis
“Father’s Education and Children’s Human Capital: Evidence from the WWII GI”
JUSTIN MCGRARY and HEATHER ROYER, University of Michigan
“Maternal Schooling and Early Human Capital Investments”AEA/ACAES: The Economics of HIV/AIDS in Asia: Economic Development Risks
Presiding: MARKUS HAACKER, International Monetary Fund, and RICHARD HOOLEY, University of Pittsburgh
MARKUS HAACKER, International Monetary Fund
“HIV/AIDS, Health, and Economic Development in Asia”
DAVID WILSON, World Bank
“Understanding and Responding to a Heterogeneous Epidemic: Evolution of the Epidemic, Its Main Drivers and Implications for Awareness and Prevention Strategies”
MEAD OVER, Center for Global Development
“Cost Effectiveness and Fiscal Burden of AIDS Treatment Programs: A Simulation Model to Maintain Financial Sustainability Using Data for Thailand and India”HERO: Are People Forward-Looking in Decisions about Health and Health Care?
Presiding: FRANK A. SLOAN, Duke University
STEPHEN T. PARENTE and ROGER FELDMAN, University of Minnesota
“Health Savings Accounts: Are Wealth and Health Portfolio Choices Joint and Rational?”
AHMED KHWAJA, Duke University, DANIEL SILVERMAN, University of Michigan, and FRANK SLOAN, Duke University
“Do Smokers Really Underestimate Risks? Evidence from Subjective Beliefs about Mortality and Health”
MICHAEL CHERNEW, Harvard University, STEVE ROSENBERG, MAYUR SHAH, Activehealth Management, and A. MARK FENDRICK, University of Michigan
“Money and the Under-consumption of Effective Health Care Services”
Jan. 7, 1:00 pm
AEA: Wealth and Health Dynamics of the Elderly (E2)
Presiding: ANDREW CAPLIN, New York University
JEFFREY BROWN, University of Illinois, NORMA COE, Tilburg University, and AMY FINKELSTEIN, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“The Impact of Medicaid on the Demand for Long-Term Care Insurance”
JONATHAN SKINNER, Dartmouth College
“Are You Sure You’re Saving Enough for Retirement?”
JOHN AMERIKS, Vanguard Group, ANDREW CAPLIN, STEVEN LAUFER, and STIJN VAN NIEUWEERBURGH, New York University
“Strategic Surveys and the Bequest Motive”AEA: One Decade After Welfare Reform: The Changing Landscape of Public Programs and the Well-Being of Families (I3)
Presiding: BARBARA WOLFE, University of Wisconsin-Madison
RICHARD FRANK, Harvard University and NBER, THOMAS MCGUIRE, Harvard University, and ELLEN MEARA, Harvard University and NBER
“Optimal Design of Public Income Assistance and the Impact of Work Incentives”
MARK DUGGAN, University of Maryland and NBER, and MELISSA KEARNEY, Brookings Institution and NBER
“The Impact of Child SSI Enrollment on Household Outcomes: Evidence from the ”
BRUCE MEYER, University of Chicago and NBER, and JAMES SULLIVAN, University of Notre Dame
“Consumption, Income, and Material Well-Being after Welfare Reform”
August 9, 2006
Changes to iHEA Organizational Membership
We wanted to let you know about the big changes coming to our Organizational Membership structure for 2007.
The most important change will be the streamlining of our annual Organizational Memberships so that the direct cost will decrease from $750 USD to $500 USD for universities and from $2500 USD to $2000 USD for other organizations!
By becoming an Organizational Member, you are instrumental in supporting iHEA’s mission to increase communication among health economists, foster a higher standard of debate in the application of economics to health and health care systems, and assist young researchers at the start of their careers.
We have streamlined our Organizational Memberships by including one free individual membership which can be designated as the primary contact and personal member to communicate with iHEA and represent your organization at our conferences, international outreach and policy development. The individual member can still purchase personal journal subscriptions (please remember that these journal subscriptions are not intended for library or organizational dissemination).
Along with the new lower price, becoming an organizational iHEA supporter will include the following Core Benefits:
Core Benefits of Organizational Membership
- No cost regular exhibition space at iHEA’s World Congress
- Reduced cost premium exhibition space and conference advertising
- Acknowledgment of your organization’s support including a hyperlink from our site
- Inclusion in iHEA information directories
- Reduced cost Featured Job listings: Organizational members pay 50% of the regular weekly rate
- Free regular job-postings and research announcements
- Free individual membership benefits for one person in your organization, including individual membership benefits like access to low-cost individual journal subscriptions (individual subscription does not allow for library or institutional dissemination)
(For University Org members only):
- Exclusive access to student scholarships for iHEA Conferences for students of member institutions
Our Annual Supporting ($5000) and Patron ($10,000) memberships will now become part of our conference sponsorship structure and will include organizational membership as a benefit. More details on this will follow.
Changes to the ASHE organizational membership structure will also be announced shortly.
Thank you for your support!
August 8, 2006
Looking for Nominees for iHEA Scientific Committee
As you are aware, iHEA maintains a standing Scientific Committee for abstract review. Each appointee is a member of the committee for two years, with the possibility of an additional term.
At this point we are seeking additional nominees to the Scientific Committee to fill-in for those completing their term and those who do not wish to re-offer as well as for the post Copenhagen committee.
The next duty of the committee will be to participate in the selection of abstracts for the Copenhagen World Congress of Health Economists in July of 2007.
All abstract review takes place over the web and, as a result, can be carried out from any Internet connection around the world. The number of abstracts for each reviewer to score has been kept to a reasonable number to spread the burden and to allow a quick turnaround.
If you are interested in being considered for the committee, we ask you to submit the following:
- A copy of your CV or resume listing relevant education, experience, publications and professional service.
- A cover letter with the following text:
“I agree to:
- Briefly examine the assigned abstracts for factors that would exclude me from reviewing an abstract (e.g. conflict of interest, lack of expertise) within 5 days of e-mail notification of my assignment and notify iHEA with any required reassignment by December 6, 2006.
- Review the abstracts assigned to me (approximately 30) during the period November 30, 2006 - December 15, 2006 and to post scores on the web site made available for that purpose by December 15, 2006.”
Note that Scientific Committee appointees must be iHEA members in good standing in order to be considered.
We look forward to hearing from you soon. Please let us know of your willingness to participate in next year’s review by submitting your CV and cover letter as a word.doc file (with your last name as the title) to bill.swan@healtheconomics.org by August 31, 2006.
Sincerely,
Terkel Christiansen, Chair, Host Organizing Committee Jane Hall, Chair, Scientific Committee Thomas E. Getzen, Executive Director
June 21, 2006
Renewal reminders being sent out
iHEA Members who haven’t renewed for 2006 should be receiving an email reminder today. If you wish to renew your membership for 2006 to avoid paying the non-member Abstract Submission fee for the World Congress in Copenhagen, you can do so through our Registration system.
Alternatively, you can contact Christopher Martin at membership@healtheconomics.org and he will be able to assist you with any questions or concerns you might have.
June 15, 2006
Back in the office
The iHEA Staff are back in the office after a very successful conference for ASHE in Madison, Wisconsin. Things should be returning to normal, if you have any questions or concerns we will be able to assist you in a timely manner.
May 31, 2006
iHEAweek Late
Due to travel schedule and Madison ASHE conference demands, iHEAweek will be distributed Thursday June 1, a day later than normal. Sorry for any inconvenience this might cause.
January 11, 2006
Talk by Martin Feldstein at the iHEA/ASHE Luncheon in Boston Massachusetts
“Balancing the Goals of Health Care Provision”
Martin Feldstein
January 6, 2006
“I am delighted to see so many of you here at this lunch. When I first started working on the economics of health care more than 40 years ago, there were only a handful of economists thinking about these issues. That has changed dramatically, with hundreds of economists doing important and exciting research, teaching courses on health economics, and helping governments develop better health care policies.”
To read the speech in its entirety, you can download an updated PDF copy (122KB)
Early Bird Registration for ASHE Conference Extended
Richard Arnould, Executive Director of ASHE, announced at the Boston Meetings of the AEA/ASSA that ASHE would be extending the early bird discount for the Madison Conference until January 15.
http://healtheconomics.us/register2006.html
If you registered for the conference after the end of the discount, you will retroactively receive the discount. Contact Christopher Martin (membership@healtheconomics.us) if you have any questions.
December 28, 2005
ASHE and iHEA activities at the AEA Meetings In Boston
ASHE Board Meeting
Friday, January 6, 2006, 8:00-10:00am
Sheraton Boston - Jefferson Room
ASHE Luncheon
Saturday, January 7, 2006, 12:30-2:30pm
Sheraton Boston, Fairfax A.
Moderator: Joseph Newhouse, President, ASHE
Speaker: Martin Feldstein, Harvard University and NBER
Title: “The Challenge of Health Care Economics”
iHEA/ASHE Reception
Saturday, January 7, 2006. 5:30-7:00PM
Sheraton Boston, Berkeley A & B
AEA/iHEA Session
Saturday, January 7, 2006, 10:15 am
Hynes Convention Center Room 202.
“Issues in Industrial Organization of Health Care”
Presiding: Vivian Ho (Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine)- “Evolution of the US Hospital Industry” - Sujoy Chakravarty, Marty Gaynor, Stephen Klepper, and William Vogt (Carnegie Mellon University)
- “Estimation and Identification of Merger Effects: An Application to Hospital Mergers” - Leemore Dafny (Northwestern University)
- “Causality and the Volume-Outcome Relationship in Surgery” - Gautam Gowrisankaran (Washington University), Vivian Ho (Rice university and Baylor College of Medicine), and Robert Town (University of Minnesota)
Discussants: Thomas Holmes (University of Minnesota), Frank Wolak (Stanford University), Ariel Pakes (Harvard University)
iHEA Session
Sunday, January 8, 2006, 10:15 am
Hynes Convention Center, Room 204
Health and Family
Presiding: Kenneth Chay (University of California-Berkeley)- “Marriage Perfection or Marriage Selection?” - William Evans (University of Maryland)
- “Contraception as Development? New Evidence from Family Planning in Columbia” - Grant Miller (Stanford University)
- “Disease Management: Helping Patients Who Won’t Help Themselves” - Paul Gertler (University of California - Berkeley)
- “The Long-Term Effects of Head Start: A Regression Discontinuity Approach” - Jens Ludwig (Georgetown University)
Discussant: Kenneth Chay, University of California - Berkeley
Some sessions involving Health Economics and related subjects
Friday January 6, 2006, 8:00 am
Topics in Health Care Economics
Presiding: Randall Ellis (Boston University)- “Do Prescription Drug Withdrawals Yield Competitive Benefits to, or Impose Negative Spillovers on, Remaining Drugs in the Therapeutic Class?” - John Cawley (Cornell University), and John Rizzo (State University of New York - Stony Brook)
- “Ownership vs. Contract: How Vertical Integration Affects Investment Decisions in Pharmaceutical R&D” - Ilan Guedj (University of Texas - Austin)
- “The Impact of Liability on the Physician Labor Market” - Eric Helland (Claremont McKenna College), and Mark Showalter (Brigham Young University)
- “The Convergence Between For-Profit and Nonprofit Hospitals in the United States” - Guy David (University of Pennsylvania)
Multiple-Father Families (J1)
Presiding: V. Jeffery Evans (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)- “Examining the Struck Bargains: Bargaining Theory in the Case of Multiple-Partner Fertility” - Christina Gibson-Davis (Duke University), and Katherine Magnuson (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
- “Who Is My Daddy? Multiple Fathers in Low-Income Families” - Natasha Cabrera (University of Maryland - College Park)
- “The Hand or the Heart: The Adverse Effects of Multiple Partner Fertility on Family Formation” - Ronald Mincy (Columbia University) and Chien-Chung Huang (Rutgers University)
Neuroeconomics (C9)
Presiding: David Laibson (Harvard University)- “Ambiguity-Aversion in the Brain: Evidence from FMRI and Lesion Patients” - Ming Hsu, Meghana Bhatt, Ralph Adolphs (California Institute of Technology), Dan Tranel (University of Iowa Health Care), and Colin Camerer (California Institute of Technology)
- “From Social Mind to Business Mind: Neural Foundations of Sanction Effects” - J. Li, E. Xiao, D. Houser (George Mason University), B. King-Casas, and R. Montague (Baylor College of Medicine)
- “The Role of Differential Outcome Feedback on Transitivity, Heart Rate, Galvanic Skin Response and FMRI” - John Dickhaut, Trent Jerde, Aldo Rustichini and Baohua Xin (University of Minnesota)
- “Backward Induction as a Cognitive Process” - Uri Gneezy (University of Chicago), Aldo Rustichini and Alexander Vostroknutov (University of Minnesota)
- “Exchange Task Reveals Differential Neural Responses across Social Context and Gender” - Damon Tomlin, Brooks King-Casas (Baylor College of Medicine), Cedric Anen, Steven R. Quartz (California Institute of Technology), and P. Read Montague (Baylor College of Medicine)
Friday, January 6, 2006, 10:15 am
- Economic Analysis of the Medicare Modernization Act
Presiding: Donald E. Yett (University of Southern California)- “Assessing the Impact of Health Savings Accounts on Insurance and Coverage Costs” - Stephen T. Parente, Roger Feldman, Jean Abraham, and John Christianson (University of Minnesota)
- “Will the Lack of a Level Playing Field in the MMA Undermine Regional Competition?” - Steven D. Pizer, Austin Frakt (Boston University and VA Boston Health Care Systems), and Roger Feldman (University of Minnesota)
- “Will Competition Return to Medicare?” - Joseph Antos (American Enterprise Institute)
Friday January 6, 2006, 2:30 pm
The Impact of Medicare (I1)
Presiding: Jonathan Skinner (Dartmouth College)- “What Did Medicare Do (And Was It Worth IT?)” - Amy Finkelstein (Harvard University) and Robin McKnight (University of Oregon)
- “The Impact of Nearly Universal Insurance Coverage on Health Care Utilization and Health: Evidence from Medicare” - David Card (University of California - Berkeley), Carlos Dobkin (University of California - Santa Cruz), and Nicole Maestas (Rand)
- “Racial Disparities in the Medicare Program” - Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra (Dartmouth College)
The Economic History of Labor and Health
Presiding: Lee Craig (North Carolina State University)- “The Political Economy of Workers’ Compensation Benefits Since 1930” - Samuel K. Allen (University of California - Davis)
- “Food Supply Fluctuations and Cycles of Growth”
- “Historical Trends in Executive Compensation, 1936-2003” - Carola Frydman and Raven Saks (Harvard University)
- “Demand for Private Health Insurance and the Failure of Progressive Reform” - John E. Murray (University of Toledo)
Quality in Health Care Markets
Presiding: Martin Gaynor (Carnegie Mellon University)- “Effects of Hospital Price Competition on Input Mix and Quality of Care” - Kevin G. Volpp, (University of Pennsylvania), R. Tamara Konetzka (University of Chicago), Julie Sochalski, and Jingsan Zhu (University of Pennsylvania)
- “HMO Competition and HMO Quality: Longitudinal Evidence” - Dennis P. Scanlon (Pennsylvania State University), Michael Chernew (University of Michigan), Shailender Swaminathan (University of Alabama - Birmingham), and Woolton Lee (Pennsylvania State University)
- “Effects of Physician Specialization of Costs and Outcomes: Results of a Multi-Center Study of Hospitals” - David Meltzer, Willard G. Manning, and J. Zhang (University of Chicago)
Saturday, January 7, 2006, 8:00 am
- Competition in Highly Related Sectors: Telecom, Health, and Financial Services
Presiding: Sharon Oster (Yale University)- “The Effect of Rate Regulation on Demand for Supplemental Health Insurance” - M. Kate Bundorf (Stanford University), and Kosali Simon (Cornell University)
- “The Color of Money Revisited: Are Banking Regulations Effective in Reducing Disparities in Home Mortgage Lending to Neighborhoods” - Yan Lee (University of California - Los Angeles)
- “Influence and Information Technology in Health Care” -James Rebitzer and Mari Rege (Case Western Reserve University)
- “‘Build or Buy’ Strategies in the Local Loop” - Marc Borreau, Enst, and Pinar Dogan (Harvard University)
Saturday, January 7, 2006, 10:15 am
Wealth and the Health of Children: Intrahousehold Decision-Making (D1)
Presiding: Theodore Tsukahara, Jr., Saint Mary’s College of California- “Child Disability and Longer-Term Parental Health: Are Implications the Same for Mothers and Fathers?” - Shelley Phipps (Dalhousie University), Martha Macdonald (Saint Mary’s University), Peter Burton, and Lynn Lethbridge (Dalhousie University)
- “Saving for Whose Retirement? Household Decision-Making and Household Wealth” - Shelly Lundberg (University of Washington), and Jennifer Ward-Batts, (Claremont McKenna College)
- “Measuring Intra-Household Bias in Healthcare of Children” - Sharmistha Self (St. John’s University), and Sajal Lahiri (Southern Illinois University-Carbondale)
Contributed Papers in Health Economics: Teenage Sex and Drugs, Nursing Homes, and Infants
Presiding: J. Michael Fitzmaurice (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)- “An Exploration of the Relationship between Risky Sexual Behavior and Substance Use by Teenagers and Young Adults” - Michael Grossman, Freddy Siahaan, (City University of New York and National Bureau of Economic Research)
- “Moral Hazard in Nursing Home Use” - David C. Grabowski (Harvard Medical School) and Jonathan Gruber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- “The Demand for Health and Unhealthy Prenatal Inputs” - Reichman (University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey), Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan, (Rider University and National Bureau of Economic Research), and Dhaval Dave (Bentley College and National Bureau of Economic Research)
Saturday, January 7, 2006, 2:30 pm
- Technology, Competition, and Quality in Heart Attack Treatment
Presiding: Laurence Baker (Stanford University and NBER)- “The Returns to More Invasive Treatments for Heart Attacks” - Amitabh Chandra (Harvard University and NBER), and Douglas O. Staiger (Dartmouth College and NBER)—
- “Incorporating Health Care Quality within Health Antitrust Law” - Helen Schneider (University of California - Berkeley)
- “Managed Care, Competition, and Heart Attack Treatments” - Laurence Baker and Christopher Afendulis (Stanford University and NBER)
Sunday, January 8, 2006, 8:00 am
Hospital Prices and Utilization
Presiding: Michael Chernew (University of Michigan)- “Is the Impact of Managed Care on Hospital Prices Decreasing?” - David Dranove (Northwestern University), Richard Lindrooth (Medical University of South Carolina), William D. White (Cornell University), and Jack Zwanziger (University of Illinois - Chicago)
- “The Relationship between Insurance Status and Utilization of Hospital Services in Australia” - H.E. Frech III (University of California - Santa Barbara), Sandra Hopkins (Curtin University), and Michael Kidd (University of Aberdeen)
- “Hospital Prices and Market Structure in the Hospital and Insurance Industries” - Martin Gaynor, Asako Shimazaki, and William B. Vogt (Carnegie Mellon University)
Education, Health and Welfare from Diverse Perspectives (I0)
Presiding: Linda Loubert (Morgan State University)- “Inequality, Race, and Mortality: A Critical Replication” - Michael Ash and Dean Robinson (University of Massachusetts - Amherst)
- “Double Disadvantage? African American Same-Sex Couples: Evidence from the 2000 Census” - Lee Badgett, Lisa Saunders (University of Massachusetts - Amherst), and Gary Gates (University of California - Los Angeles)
- “Occupational Segregation by Race and Sex in Brazil, 1989-2001” - Mary King (Portland State University)
- “Racial Gaps in High School Leadership Opportunities” - Catherine Weinberger (University of California - Santa Barbara)
Sunday, January 8, 2006, 10:15 am
HIV/AIDS and Rural Food Security in Africa
Presiding: Stuart Gillespie (International Food Policy Research Institute)- “Ten Years On: Summary Findings of a Longitudinal Study on the Impact of HIV/AIDS on Rural Livelihoods in Zambia” - Michael Drinkwater, Margaret Mcewan, Fiona Samuels, Simon Tunkanya and Team CARE International, FAO, HIV/AIDS Alliance
- “Labour Market and Wage Impacts of HIV/AIDS In Rural Malawi” - Andrew Dorward (Imperial College London) and I. Mwale (Ministry of Agriculture, Malawi)
- “Factors Associated with Community Resilience to HIV/AIDS: Evidence From Zambia” - Elizabeth Byron (International Food Policy Research Institute), Albert Chalabesa (Zambian Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives), Petan Hamazakaza, (Farming Systems Group), Thomas Jayne (Michigan State University), Mukelabai Ndiyoi (Farming Systems Group), Suneetha Kadiyala (International Food Policy Research Institute), and Stuart Gillespie (International Food Policy Research Institute)
Health and Development
Presiding: Christina Paxson (Princeton University)- “Health, Income, and Household Resource Allocation: Experimental Evidence” - Elizabeth Frankenberg (University of California - Los Angeles), James P. Smith (RAND), Bondon Sikoki (Survey/METER), and Duncan Thomas (University of California - Los Angeles)
- “Consequences of Early Marriage for Women in Bangladesh” - Erica Field (Harvard University)
- “The Gender Division of Labor, Indoor Pollution and Adult and Child Health in Low-Income Countries” - Nazmul Hassan (Dhaka University), Mark M. Pitt (Brown University), and Mark Rosenzweig (Harvard University and Brookings Institution)
- “The Effect of Air Quality on Infant Mortality during Indonesia’s Massive Wildfires in 1997” - Seema Jayachandran (University of California - Berkeley and Los Angeles)
Sunday, January 8, 2006, 1:00 pm
- Understanding the Relationship between Education and Health (I1)
Presiding: Michael Grossman (City University of New York and NBER)- “Education,Information, and Smoking Decisions: Evidence from Smoking Histories, 1940-2000” - Damien De Walque (World Bank)
- “A Theory of Health Disparities and Medical Technology” - Dana Goldman and Darius Lakdawalla (RAND)
- “How Did Compulsory Schooling Reduce Mortality Risk among the Elderly?” - Douglas Almond (Columbia University) and Bhashkar Mazumder (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
December 21, 2005
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September 15, 2005
ASHE Conference Registration
Economics of Population Health: Inaugural Conference of the American Society of Health Economists (ASHE)
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Dates: June 4-7, 2006
NEW! Madison Conference Brochure (PDF 267 KB)
| Membership Status | Rate | Fee | Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 ASHE Member | Early Bird | USD $450 | before Dec. 23 |
| Non-member | Standard | USD $690 | |
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August 12, 2005
Site Misbehaving with Internet Explorer
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November 12, 2004
iHEA News (Updated)
The November edition of iHEA News is available as a downloadable PDF (120KB). The PDF version of iHEA News posted on November 11 was inadvertently corrupted which truncated part of the document. If you previously downloaded a copy, you may wish to do so again.