Yale Health Economics Workshop
December 7, 2012
28 Hillhouse Avenue, RM 106

Organizers:     
Amanda Kowalski, Department of Economics
Jason Fletcher, Department of Health Policy and Management

12:00pm-12:45 pm            
Informal Lunch Brown Bag      
Welcome

Session 1
  12:45  1:15 
Understanding Heterogeneity in the Effects of Birth Weight on Adult Cognition and Wages                
Jason Fletcher, Health Policy and Management
  1:15   1:45               
Education Reform, Health and Cognition
Costas Meghir, Economics
  1:45   2:15 
Evolving Choice Inconsistencies in Choice of Prescription Drug Insurance: Do Choices Improve Over Time?
Jason Abaluck, School of Management

30 Minute Break

Session 2
  2:45   3:15                 
Peer effects among hospitalized patients: evidence from roommate assignments.
Olga Yakusheva, Health Policy and Management
  3:15   3:45
How do Individual Medical Expenditures Evolve Over Time? Evidence from Working Age Individuals in New York. 
Amanda Kowalski, Economics
  
15 Minute Break

Session 3
 4:00   4:30   
Doctors without orders: an empirical evaluation of devolving control to providers in Costa Rica’s health care system            
Douglas McKee, Economics
 4:30   5:00
Does Competition Improve Hospital Performance? Evidence from the English National Health Service
Zack Cooper, Health Policy and Management
           
5:30                             Dinner for speakers (Portofino)