The Eighteenth Annual Health Economics Conference

The Eighteenth Annual Health Economics Conference took place March 16-17, 2007, hosted by the School of Health Management and Policy (SHMP) in the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.  The purpose of this invitational conference is to facilitate discussion of the latest health economics research among a relatively small group of economists. The abstracts selected by the committee from over 70 submissions are provided here. 

Jonathan Ketcham (480-965-5507), ketcham@asu.edu
or Marjorie Baldwin (480-965-7868), marjorie.baldwin@asu.edu

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Agenda

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• Another steak or another year of life? Consumption choices and the rise in health spending
• Economists are from Mars, policymakers are from Venus: Translating the language of science
• Consumer prefrences and the relationship between health and consumption

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Abstracts :

• The Value of Life and the Rise in Health Spending
  Robert E. Hall & Charles I. Jones
  
  
• Analyzing Health Care Cost Data in the Presence of Heterogeneous Patients: Wouldn't Three Pieces Be Better than One?
  - James F. Burgess, Jr.; Chuan Zhou; Paul A. Fishman; Li Wang and Kevin L. Sloan
  
  
• Technology Adoption and Market Structure: Examples from the Healthcare Industry -
  Cory Capps and Alison Cuellar
  
  
• Social Networks and Demand for Health Care Among Hispanics -
  José J. Escarce and Carole Roan Gresenz.
  
  
• Direct-to-Consumer Advertising and Welfare: A Structural Model of Consumers and Firms in the Market for Prescription Drugs -
  Jayani Jayawardhana
  
  
• Physician Payment Mechanisms: Dynamics, Diagnostic Ability and Altruism - 
  Marie Allard, Izabela Jelovac and Pierre-Thomas Léger
  
  
• Privacy, Networks Effects and Electronic Medical Record Technology Adoption -
  Amalia R. Miller and Catherine Tucker
  
  
• The Impact of Poor Health on Education: New Evidence Using Genetic Markers -
  Weili Ding, Steven F. Lehrer, J. Niels Rosenquist and Janet Audrain-McGovern
  
  
• The Effect of a Tiered Hospital Benefit and Safety Incentive on Hospital Admissions:Evidence from Stated and Revealed Preference Data - 
  Dennis P. Scanlon, Richard Lindrooth and Jon B. Christianson
  
  
• Estimating the Welfare Effects of Alternative Liability Regimes -
  Tomas Philipson and Eric Sun
  
  
• Health Insurance, Pensions, and Paid Leave: Access to Health Insurance at Small Firms in a Broader Benefits Context -
  Jean Marie Abraham, Anne Beeson Royalty and Tom DeLeire

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“Funding for this conference was made possible [in part] by 1 R13 HS016883-01 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).  The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official polices of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.”