Medical spending across the developed world
27 and 28 March 2015
CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE.
This conference is organised by Eric French (IFS and UCL) and Elaine Kelly (IFS).
27 March 2015
Session A: Introduction to spending in developed countries and spending in England
Chair: Eric French (IFS and UCL)
10:00
Welcome and Intro
10:05
George Stoye (IFS), "Medical Spending at Older Ages in England: Evidence from
National Health Service Administrative Records".
Nigel Rice (York), "Medical Spending in England".
11:05
Coffee break
Session B: Medical Spending in the United States
Chair: Elaine Kelly (IFS)
11:35
Svetlana Pashchenko (Surrey), “Medical spending in the US: facts from the Medical
Expenditure Survey Dataset.”
12:05
Eric French (IFS and UCL), “Medical Spending on the US Elderly”.
12:35
Sebastian Calonico (Miami), “Long-term health spending persistence among the privately
insured: Exploring dynamic panel estimation approaches.”
13:05
Rick Evans (Brigham Young University), “US Insurance Data”
13:35
Lunch
Session C: Medical Spending in Northern Europe
Chair: Soumaya Keynes (IFS)
14:30
Bent Christensen (Aarhus ) with co-authors, Mette Gørtz (Copenhagen) and Malene
Kallestrup-Lamb (Aarhus), “Medical spending on the Danish elderly”
15:10
Pieter Bakx (Erasmus), Concentration of Health Care Expenditures in the Netherlands
15:50
Break
Session D: Health and Healthcare Spending using Cohort Studies
Chair: Eric French (IFS)
16:10
Jon Skinner (Dartmouth College ), “Out-of-Pocket Medical Expenditures in the United
States: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study.”
16:40
Jim Smith (IFS and RAND), “Health, disability and mortality differences at older ages
between the US and England”.
17:10
Close
28 March 2015
Chair: George Stoye (IFS)
9:30
Tobias Klein (Tilburg), “Medical Spending of Privately Insured Individuals in Germany”.
10:10
Pierre-Yves Geoffard (Paris School of Economics), Medical Spending in France.
10:50
Break
11:05
Yoko Ibuka (Tohoku), “Medical expenditure in Japan: an analysis with
administrative data from a National Health Insurance plan”.
11:35
Stacey Chen (Academia Sinica Taipei ), “Medical Spending in Taiwan”.
12:05
Concluding remarks
12:15
Close