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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

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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 Cards”
      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 BENÍTEZ-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-MARTÍN, 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”
  • 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”

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