On April 26-17, the Becker Friedman Institute Health Economics Initiative’s annual conference brought together faculty, research professionals, and students to explore a variety of health economics issues. The conference included two “rising stars” sessions featuring top health economics research from the 2018-2019 job market, along with sessions featuring more established scholars.

Agenda

Friday, April 26, 2019
08:15:00

Registration and breakfast

08:45:00–09:35:00

Health Insurance: Trade-offs between Extensive and Intensive Margin Selection in Competitive Insurance Markets

09:35:00–10:25:00

Health Insurance: Market Design in Regulated Health Insurance Markets: Risk Adjustment vs. Subsidies

10:25:00–10:50:00

Break

10:50:00–11:40:00

Health Insurance II: The Value of Health Insurance: A Household Job Search Approach

11:40:00–12:30:00

Health Insurance II: Does the individual mandate affect insurance coverage? Regression kink evidence from the population of tax returns

12:30:00–13:45:00

Lunch

13:45:00–14:25:00

JMP Session I: Picking Your Patients: Selective Admissions in the Nursing Home Industry

14:25:00–15:05:00

JMP Session I: User-Generated Physician Ratings – Evidence from Yelp

15:05:00–15:45:00

JMP Session I: How Do Primary Care Physicians Influence Healthcare? Evidence from Practice Styles and Switching Costs from Medicare

15:45:00–16:10:00

Break

16:10:00–16:50:00

JMP Session II: Intermediation and Vertical Integration in the Market for Surgeons

16:50:00–17:30:00

JMP Session II: Impeding Access or Promoting Efficiency? Effects of Rural Hospital Closure on the Cost and Quality of Care

17:30:00

Conference adjourns for the day

Saturday, April 27, 2019
08:00:00

Registration and breakfast

08:30:00–09:20:00

Provider Behavior: Selection with Skills: Evidence from Radiologists

09:20:00–10:10:00

Provider Behavior: Physician Learning and Treatment Choices: Evidence from Brain Aneurysms

10:10:00–10:35:00

Break

10:35:00–11:25:00

IO and Health: Market Power and Quality Congestion and Spatial Competition in the Dialysis Industry

11:25:00–12:15:00

IO and Health: Promoting Wellness or Waste? Evidence from Antidepressant Advertising

12:15:00–13:30:00

Lunch

13:30:00–14:20:00

Health Improvements: Incentivizing Behavioral Change: The Role of Time Preferences

14:20:00–15:10:00

Health Improvements: Does When You Die Depend on Where You Live?

15:10:00

Conference concludes