New Perspectives on Health and Health Care Policy

• Medicare, Hospital Utilization and Mortality: Evidence from the Program's Origins

Ken Chay,  Brown University (presenting)

Daeho Kim,  Brown University

Shailender Swaminathan,  Brown University

• Paying a Premium on Your Premium? Consolidation in the U.S. Health Insurance Industry

Leemore S. Dafny,  Northwestern University (presenting)

Mark Duggan,  University of Maryland

Subbu Ramanarayanan,  University of California at Los Angeles

• Changing Market Concentration in the Health Insurance Industry: Are Mergers Anticompetitive?

James Hilliard,  University of Georgia (presenting)

Rexford Santerre,  University of Connecticut

Chinmoy Ghosh,  University of Connecticut

• Unhealthy Insurance Markets: Search Frictions and the Cost and Quality of Health Insurance

Randall D. Cebul,  Case Western Reserve University

James B. Rebitzer,  Boston University

Lowell J. Taylor,  Carnegie Mellon University

Mark E. Votruba,  Case Western Reserve University (presenting)

Panelist

David Cutler,  Harvard University

Panelist

Mark Pauly,  University of Pennsylvania

• Presentation

• Incentives and Commitments for Exercise: Evidence from a Field Experiment at an On-site Corporate Fitness Center

Heather Royer,  University of California, Santa Barbara (presenting)

Mark Stehr,  Drexel University

Justin Sydnor,  Case Western Reserve University

• The Impact of Health Insurance Based Wellness Incentives on Hospitalizations and Medical Care Use

Gautam Gowrisankaran,  University of Arizona and Washington University in St. Louis

Karen Norberg,  Washington University in St. Louis (presenting)

Steven Kymes,  Washington University in St. Louis

Michael Chernew,  Harvard University

Dustin Stwalley,  Washington University in St. Louis

Leah Kemper,  Washington University in St. Louis

William Peck,  Washington University in St. Louis

• The Impact of Comparative Effectiveness Research on the Quality and Cost of Health Care

Anirban Basu,  University of Chicago

Tomas Philipson,  University of Chicago (presenting)

• Is Comparative Effectiveness Research Effective? Disadoption of High Dose Chemotherapy/Bone Marrow Transplantation for Breast Cancer

David H. Howard,  Emory University (presenting)

Carolyn Kenline,  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Navneet Majhail,  University of Minnesota

J. Douglas Rizzo,  University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee

• Physician Financial Incentives, Adoption of Imaging Equipment and Impacts on Patient Care, Costs and Outcomes

Laurence Baker,  Stanford University (presenting)

James J. Heckman,  University of Chicago (presenting)