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Health Economics.(Program and Working Group Meetings)

Publication: NBER Reporter
Publication Date: 01-JAN-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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The NBER's Program on Health Economics met in Cambridge on April 13. Program Director Michael Grossman organized the meeting. These papers were discussed

Javier A. Birchenall, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Rodrigo R. Soares, University of Maryland and NBER, "Altruism, and...

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...Fertility, the Value of Children: Health Policy Evaluation and Intergenerational Welfare"

Donald Kenkel, Cornell University and NBER, "The Evolution of the Schooling-Smoking Gradient"

Charles L. Baum II, Middle Tennessee State University, and Christopher J. Ruhm, University of North Carolina and NBER, "Age, Socioeconomic Status, and Obesity Growth"

Emily Oster, University of Chicago and NBER, "HIV and Sexual Behavior Change: Why not Africa?" (NBER Working Paper No. 13049)

Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat, Duke University, and Daniel M. Hungerman, University of Notre Dame and NBER, "The Power of the Pill for the Next Generation"

Tinna Laufey Asgeirsdottir, University of Iceland, "Health and Income: The Case of Iceland"

Birchenall and Soares account for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies by incorporating altruism and fertility...

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