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8th Annual Conference of the American Society of Health Economists

Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday

Monday, June 24, 2019

6:30 AM-7:15 AM


ASHEcon 5K Fun Run

7:00 AM-7:00 PM


Exhibits

Registration

7:45 AM-9:15 AM


Abortion Restrictions and Other Fertility Reducing Interventions
Pamela Meyerhofer

Access to Care
Rebecca Myerson

Agency Relationship And The Determinants Of Quality Of Care And Prescribing Behaviour In South Africa
Mylene Lagarde

Air Pollution and Health
Alex Hollingsworth

Behavioral Approaches to Motivating Health Behavior Change
Heather Royer

Behavioral Nudges in Health Care Decision-making
Jessica Leight

Competition and Markets for Generics
Annabelle Fowler

Competition in the Medicare Advantage Market
Keaton Miller

Economic Issues in Nursing
Steve Schwab

Exploring the Causes and Consequences Health and Income Inequality in the United States
Dr. Kakoli Roy

Investigations into Alcohol Use and Health Outcomes
Mir Ali

Making Health Care Markets Work: Evidence and Policy
Martin Gaynor Leemore Dafny , David Dranove and Kate Ho

Take-up and Coverage Generosity in Individual Insurance Markets
Michael Geruso

The Economics of the ACA at the State Level
Romy Hussain

9:30 AM-10:45 AM


Applications of Nonlinear Modeling Techniques: Econometrics and Machine Learning
Partha Deb

Causes and Consequences of Poor Infant Health Outcomes
Melinda Pitts

Competition in Prescription Drug Markets: An International Comparison
Ruben Jacobo-Rubio

Complements and Substitutes in Healthcare
Yingying Xu

Consumer Decision Making in the Health Insurance Market
Ben Ukert

Consumer Responses to Nudges, Education, and Incentives
Kevin Callison

Continuity of Care
Alice Chen

Costs of Obesity
Jay Bhattacharya

Data and Measurement Issues in Substance Use Research
Nathan Tefft

Electronic Health Records and Big Data in the Post-HITECH World
Philip A. Saynisch

Examining the Evolving Roles of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants
Laura Smith

Exploring the Impacts of Housing Assistance on Health: Building Evidence for Policy
Lisa Dubay

How to Advance Evidence-Based Healthcare Policy at the State and Local Level
Jonathan Gruber Florence R LeCraw , Bowen Garrett and Stan Dorn

Impact of Episode-Based Bundled Payments on Spending and Utilization
Zirui Song

The Affordable Care Act and Medicaid Expansion
Kosali Simon

11:00 AM-12:00 PM


Special Plenary: A Fireside Chat with Scott Gottlieb and Mark McClellan
Janet Currie Mark McClellan and Scott Gottleib

12:00 PM-1:00 PM


Membership Awards Luncheon

1:15 PM-2:45 PM


Access To Mental Health Services Among Minority and Severely Ill Patients
Vicki Fung

Access and Incentives in Health Care Delivery
Sebastian Bauhoff

Advances in Microsimulation Modeling of Coverage Policies
Jessica Banthin

Dental Markets and Competition: Providers and Insurers
Kamyar Nasseh

Determinants of Child and Infant Health in Less Developed Countries
Marianne Bitler

Discrete choice experiments to inform tobacco and marijuana policies
Ce Shang

Drug Pricing: Regulation, Markets, and Patients
Xuanzi Qin

Economics of Blood Donations and Organ Transplants
Randall P Ellis

Financial Incentives and Length of Stay in Nursing Homes
R. Vincent Pohl

Health Care Production Process
Martin B. Hackmann

Health Care in Low Income Communities
Daniel Polsky and Shooshan Danagoulian

Health Insurance, Adolescents and Young Adults
Austin Frakt

Health Shocks, Disability, and Labor Market Outcomes
David Weaver

Incentives, Integration and Efficiency
Joshua Rolnick

Payment Reform and Provider Behavior
Julius L. Chen

2:50 PM-3:10 PM


Demo Lab Presentation: Wharton Research Data Services

3:15 PM-4:45 PM


Assessing and Accelerating State Implementation of Value-Based Payment Reforms
Mark McClellan Stuart Altman , JP Sharp and Jessica Kahn

Determinants of Child and Infant Health in the Short and Long Run
Koray Caglayan

Determinants of Mental Health: Quasi-experimental Evidence from State and County Actions
Michael Pesko

Effects of Expanding Nurse Practitioners' Scope of Practice on Prescription Use and Quality
Sara Markowitz

Effects of the ACA Medicaid Expansion
Jean Abraham

Evaluating Medicare Beneficiaries' Choices of Insurance and Residential Locations
Kate Bundorf

Health Insurance in Public Employer Settings
Nicholas Tilipman

Health and Labor Market Outcomes
Christopher Carpenter

Healthcare and a Household's Finances
Irina Grafova

Industry Organization and Long Term Care
Vicki Chen

Issues for Post-acute and Long-term Care Financing Reforms
Thomas DeLeire Lisa Grabert , David C. Grabowski and Jay Bhattacharya

Issues in Health Insurance: Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, and the U.S.
Thomas McGuire

Origins of SES gradients in rich countries
Nathan Tefft

Physician Decision-making and Overprescribing
Adam Sacarny

Workers’ Compensation and Disability Policy
Marcus Dillender

5:15 PM-6:45 PM


Career Opportunities for Health Economists in Government and Public Service
Steven Cohen Victoria Udalova , Aditi P. Sen , Namrata Uberoi , Ellen J. Montz and Emily R Gee

FDA’s Office of New Drugs: A Regulatory Policy Primer
Kathleen Miller Kathleen Miller , Andreas Schick , Kerry Jo Lee and Katherine Schumann

Introduction to Federal Research Grants for Health Economists
Herbert S Wong Gregory Bloss , Partha Bhattacharyya and Sarah Duffy

Research Databases at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Zeynal Karaca Joel W. Cohen

Setting Drug Prices in Medicare: Toward a Competitive Market?
Richard Manning Anupam Jena , Murray L. Aitken , Margaret Kyle , Rena Conti and Amanda Starc

The Compensation and Productivity of Health Economists: Results of the 2018 Survey of ASHEcon Membership
John Cawley Michael A. Morrisey and Kosali Simon

Translating Research into Policy: How Claims Data Can Help Shape Public Policy on Healthcare and Assess Its Impact
Thomas Swift

Value Assessment: Next-Gen Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Needed?
Richard J Willke Louis Garrison , Charles E Phelps , Richard Chapman and Ira Klein

7:00 PM-9:00 PM


ASHEcon and PhRMA Reception (Invite Only)

LGTBQI + Allies Reception