Yale Health Economics Workshop
November 4, 2009
117 Steinbach Hall
52 Hillhouse Avenue

Organizers:      
Fabian Lange, Economics
Jason Fletcher, Health Policy and Administration

12:00pm-12:30 pm            
Informal Lunch Brown Bag      
Welcome

Session 1
12:30   1:05               
The Role of Dynamics in the Health-Education Gradient
Douglas McKee and Fabian Lange, Department of Economics, Yale University

  1:05   1:40               
Tobacco Use, Taxation, and Self Control in Adolescence
Jody Sindelar, Health Policy and Administration, Yale University

  1:40   2:15 
Learning, misdiagnosis, and the adoption of new malaria therapy in Tanzania
Achyuta Adhvaryu, Health Policy and Administration, Yale University

15 Minute Break

Session 2
2:30     3:05                
Friendship Networks and Health Behaviors
Jason Fletcher, Health Policy and Administration, Yale University

3:05    3:40                
Fragility: A Quantitative Analysis of Small Group Health Insurance              
Björn Brügemann, Department of Economics, Yale University

15 Minute Break

Session 3
 3:55   4:30               
Effects of Report Cards on Referral Patterns to Cardiac Surgeons
Andrew Epstein, Health Policy and Administration, Yale University

4:30   5:05               
Uncovering Health Plan Preferences from Hospital Discharge Records
Katherine Ho, Department of Economics, Columbia University (Visiting Yale)

5:05   5:40
Invincible or Uninsurable? Using the Massachusetts Insurance Mandate to Distinguish Risk Type and Risk Preference
Amanda Kowalski, Department of Economics, Yale University

                 
6:00                             Dinner for speakers (TBA)