7th Annual Conference of the American Society of Health Economists

Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

7:30 AM-5:30 PM

Conference Exhibits

Registration

8:00 AM-9:30 AM

Cognitive Status, Dementia, Health Behaviours and Long-Term Care Utilization
Brenda Gannon

Community Health Interventions Targeting Maternal and Child Health: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Jessica Leight

Constrained Provider Optimization
Andrew Wilcock

Coverage, Access and Employment in Medicaid
Thomas DeLeire

Coverage, Demand, and Payment in Dental Markets
Samuel H. Zuvekas

Health Policy Modeling: Research and Methods Needed to Evaluate Emerging Policies
Melinda B. Buntin

Impact of Physician Consolidation
Alice Chen

Information, Agency, and Physician Treatment Decisions
Mariana Carrera

Market Characteristics and Healthcare Delivery
Ity Shurtz

Medicaid and Human Capital
Anuj Gangopadhyaya

Pricing and Reimbursement of Outpatient Drugs
W. David Bradford

Promoting Public Health in Tobacco Markets: Experimental Evidence
John Buckell

Revealed Preference Estimates of Consumer Demand
Claudio Lucarelli

The Economics of Injury and Disability
Seth Seabury

The Effects of City-Level Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages
David Frisvold

10:00 AM-11:30 AM

Combating the Opioid Epidemic: Better Strategies and New Evidence
Kosali Simon

Determinants of Primary Care Provider Practice Styles: Implications for Public Policy
Jessica Van Parys

Effects of Medicaid Reforms and Expansions
Thomas DeLeire

Employment Patterns in the Health Workforce
Christopher Whaley

Health Insurance and Labor Market Spillovers
Kevin Feeney

Innovative Payment Policy in Medicaid and Medicare
Hyunjee Kim

Insurance Market Competition
Bradley Herring

Marijuana Use and Public Policy
Michael T. French

Maternal Impacts on Child Health
Molly Jacobs

Public Policy and Mental Health
Fredric Blavin

Research Practices in Health Insurance Evaluation
Andrew Goodman-Bacon

Selection and Consumer Choice in the Individual Health Insurance Market
Timothy J. Layton

The Effects of Copays, Closures and Chronic Diseases
Michael E. Chernew

US and International Evidence on Spending and Inequality
Elizabeth Q. Cliff

Workplace Wellness
David Molitor

11:45 AM-1:15 PM

Economics and the Drug Pricing Debate
Rena Conti , Liz Fowler , C.Bernie Good and Mark Miller Gregory Daniel

1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Demand Side Issues in Long-term Care
Maria A. Polyakova

Determinants and Consequences of Formulary Design in the Medicare Part D Program
Martin Andersen

Economics of Continuity of Care
Steve Schwab

Incentives in Health Care Provider Markets
Michael R. Richards

Innovations in Health Insurance Benefit Design--Narrow Networks and Reference Pricing
Christopher Whaley

Market Structure and Regulation in Healthcare
Darwyyn Deyo

Medicaid Expansions and Outcomes: Consumer Financial Wellbeing, Provider Participation in Medicaid, and Relocation of Providers
Jason Huh

Medicaid as a Lever for Public Health Policy
E. Kathleen Adams

Precision Medicine and the Approval of Targeted Therapeutics
Ariel Dora Stern

Racial Disparities in Healthcare Outcomes
Seth Freedman

Studies of the Medical and Non-Medical Consumption Effects of ACA Coverage Types
Naomi B. Zewde

Substance Use and Substance Use Disorder Treatment Among Vulnerable Population: Evidence from State Level Policy Initiatives
Mir Ali

The Effect of Childhood Health on Earnings
Barbara Wolfe

The Effect of Income and Education on Obesity
David Slusky

Why Do Provider Prices Vary So Much?
Vivian Ho

3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Access to Substance Abuse Treatment
Chandler McClellan

Determinants of the Quality of Long Term Care Services
Joanne Spetz

Effects of Healthcare Reforms on the Elderly
Molly M. Jeffery

Effects of Payment Systems Reform
Nicolae Done

Health Shocks and Labor Force Participation
Nicole Maestas

Hospital Markets, Provider Markets, and Quality
Eunhae Shin

Improving the Quality of Health Insurance Choices
Rebecca Myerson

Information, Policy and Physician Behavior
Bingxiao Wu

Innovations in Tobacco Control
Justin S. White

Medicare Advantage: Access Costs and Quality
Michael E. Chernew

Plan Design in the Employer-Sponsored Insurance Market
Jessica Vistnes

Prenatal Conditions
Muzhe Yang

Prescription Industry Promotion and the Opioid Market
Kosali Simon

Recent Policy Changes and Dual Enrollees
Melissa McInerney

The Role of Public Policy in the Opioid Epidemic
Colleen Carey

5:15 PM-7:00 PM

Poster Reception

7th Annual Conference of the American Society of Health Economists

June 10 - 13, 2018