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2024 Annual Health Economics Conference

Co-Sponsoring with Stanford Health Policy and the Hoover Institution

Event Details:

Thursday, April 4, 2024 - Friday, April 5, 2024

Location

Annenberg Conference Room
434 Galvez Mall
Stanford, CA 94305
United States

Contact

This event is open to:

By Invitation Only

After a successful post-Covid restart of the Annual Health Economics Conference (AHEC) in 2023, we are going to continue with the AHEC 2024 meeting hosted by Stanford University. The conference will begin on the morning of Thursday, April 4th and conclude by midday on Friday, April 5th. Please note that due to space constraints, this conference is by invitation only. If you would like to attend, please contact Maria Polyakova (maria.polyakova@stanford.edu) and Kelsey Snook (ksnook1@stanford.edu). 

We are extremely grateful to the Hoover Institution, the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and Stanford Health Policy for sponsoring the event this year. 

2024 AHEC Organizing Committee

Alice Chen, PhD (University of Southern California)
Marcus Dillender, PhD (Vanderbilt University)
Atul Gupta, PhD (University of Pennsylvania)
Maria Polyakova, PhD (Stanford University)
Michael Richards, MD, PhD (Cornell University)
Ashley Swanson, PhD (University of Wisconsin)

Schedule

Thursday, April 4, 2024

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    Breakfast

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    Links Between Puzzles in Household Finance: Evidence from Employee Benefit Choices

    Adam Leive, Leora Friedberg, and Brent Davis 
    Speaker: Adam Leive, PhD – Assistant Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley 
    Discussant: Gopi Shah Goda, PhD – Senior Fellow, SIEPR, Stanford University 

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    Long-Term Echoes of Short-Term Policy: Tracing the Persistent Impact of Medicare Advantage Subsidies

    Thomas Buchmueller, Aaron Kaye, William Mandelkorn, and Sarah Miller 
    Speaker: Aaron Kaye, PhD Candidate in Business and Economics, University of Michigan 
    Discussant: Natalia Serna Borrero, PhD – Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy, Stanford University 

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    Break

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    Turbocharging Revenue: What Do Health Care Providers Do with Windfall Gains?

    Atul Gupta, Ambar La Forgia, and Adam Sacarny
    Speaker: Ambar La Forgia, PhD – Assistant Professor, Haas School, University of California Berkeley
    Discussant: Jetson Leder-Luis, PhD – Assistant Professor, Questrom School of Business, Boston University 

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    Public Investment and Health Care Quality: Evidence from Rural Hospital Subsidies

    Caitlin Carroll 
    Speaker: Caitlin Carroll, PhD – Assistant Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota 
    Discussant: Christopher Whaley, PhD – Associate Professor, Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University 

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    Lunch

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    Medical Residency Subsidies and Provider Supply

    Cici McNamara and Mayra Pineda-Torres 
    Speaker: Cici McNamara, PhD – Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Georgia Institute of Technology 
    Discussant: Michael Richards, MD, PhD, MPH – Professor, Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, Cornell University 

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    Cognitive Capacity, Fatigue, and Decision Making: Evidence from the Practice of Medicine

    Bryan Chu, Ben Handel, Jonathan Kolstad, Jonas Knecht, Ulrike Malmendier, and Filip Matejka 
    Speaker: Jonathan Kolstad, PhD – Professor, Haas School of Business and Department of Economics, University of California Berkeley
    Discussant: David Silver, PhD – Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara 

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    Break

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    Externalities from Medical Innovation: Evidence from Organ Transplantation

    Kevin Callison, Michael Darden, and Keith F. Teltser 
    Speaker: Michael Darden, PhD – Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University 
    Discussant: Paulo J. Somaini, PhD – Associate Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business

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    The Effect of Hospital Breastfeeding Policies on Infant Health

    Emily C. Lawler and Meghan M. Skira 
    Speaker: Emily C. Lawler, PhD – Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration and Policy and Economics, University of Georgia 
    Discussant: Heather Royer, PhD – Professor of Economics University of California, Santa Barbara 

Friday, April 5, 2024

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    Breakfast

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    The Effect of Organizations on Physician Prescribing: The Case of Opioids

    M. Kate Bundorf, Daniel Kessler, and Sahil Lalwani 
    Speaker: Daniel Kessler, PhD – Professor, School of Law and Graduate School of Business, Stanford University 
    Discussant: Stephen Schwab, PhD – Assistant Professor, Alvarez College of Business, University of Texas at San Antonio 

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    Stocking Under the Influence: Spillovers from Commercial Drug Coverage to Medicare Utilization

    Emma Dean, Josh Feng, and Luca Maini 
    Speaker: Emma Dean, PhD - Assistant Professor, Department of Health Management and Policy, Miami Business School, University of Miami 
    Discussant: Genevieve Kanter, PhD – Associate Professor of Public Policy, Sol Price School of Public Policy and Senior Fellow, USC Schaeffer Center, USC 

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    Break

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    Healthcare Provider Bankruptcies

    Samuel Antill, Jessica Bai, Ashvin Gandhi, and Adrienne Sabety 
    Speaker: Adrienne Sabety, PhD – Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy, Stanford University 
    Discussant: Riley League, PhD – Postdoctoral Fellow in Health and Aging Research at the National Bureau of Economic Research 

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    Ridesharing and External-Cause Mortality

    Conor Lennon, Christian Saenz, and Keith Teltser 
    Speaker: Conor Lennon, PhD – Associate Professor, Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 
    Discussant: Victoria Barone, PhD – Assistant Professor, Economics, University of Notre Dame 

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    Lunch

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