Monday, June 23, 2014, 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room7
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1394 - Adverse Selection
Presiding: Robert Kaestner
1689 - Anatomy of a Slow-Motion Health Insurance Death Spiral
Presenting Author: H. E. Frech
Co-Author(s): Michael Smith
Discussant: Steve Parente
2134 - Risk Selection under Public Health Insurance with Opt-out
Presenting Author: Sebastian Panthoefer
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Sebastian Bauhoff
2467 - Multiproduct Risk Selection in Medicare Advantage
Presenting Author: Shulamite S Chiu
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Robert Kaestner
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room3
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1362 - Behavioral Economics, Health, and Health Care
Presiding:
1801 - Fun in the Lunch-Room: A Nudge to Develop Healthy Taste Buds
Presenting Author: Janani Rajbhandari Thapa
Co-Author(s): Conrad Lyford
Discussant: Joseph Price
1889 - The Effect on Supermarket Food Purchases from Point of Sale Nudges with
Community Reinforcement
Presenting Author: Conrad Lyford
Co-Author(s): Janani Thapa; Barent McCool; Barbara Pence; Eric Belasco
Discussant: Andres Vargas
2000 - Deadly Mistakes: Differences in the Formation and Accuracy of Longevity
Expectations by Education and Cognition
Presenting Author: Owen O'Donnell
Co-Author(s): Teresa Bago d'Uva; Esen Erdogan-Ciftci; Eddy van Doorslaer
Discussant: Martin Salm
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room9
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1363 - Birth Outcomes and Maternal Health
Presiding: Heather Royer
1789 - The Intergenerational Transmission of Low Birth Weight: A Large
Multigenerational Cohort Study in Taiwan
Presenting Author: Mengcen Qian
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Heather Royer
2374 - Effect of Neighborhood Characteristics on the Health of Pregnant Women and Their
Newborns
Presenting Author: Aparna Lhila
Co-Author(s): Vikesh Amin
Discussant: Shirlee Lichtman-Sadot
2622 - The Effect of Short and Intensive Exposure to PM10 on Birth Outcomes in
Montevideo
Presenting Author: Ana Balsa
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Katharina M Janke
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room2
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1140 - Competition and Incentives in LTC Markets
Presiding: Sean S Huang
1778 - Competition and Reputational Quality: Results from Nursing Homes
Presenting Author: Susan Feng Lu
Co-Author(s): Gerard j. Wedig
Discussant: Richard Hirth
1678 - How Does the Interplay of Corporate and Market Structures Affect Quality?
Presenting Author: Sean S Huang
Co-Author(s): Richard Hirth
Discussant: David C. Grabowski
1780 - Effect of Competition on Gaming Behaviors: Evidence from the Home Health Care
Industry
Presenting Author: Hyunjee Kim
Co-Author(s): Bingxiao Wu; Kyoungrae Jung
Discussant: Daniel Polsky
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room13
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1416 - Economics and Primary Care
Presiding: Eric Sarpong
1290 - Factors Associated with Openings and Closings of Primary Care Clinics in
California
Presenting Author: Suhui Li
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Yang Wang
2531 - Nurse Practitioners and their Effects on Visits to Primary Care Providers
Presenting Author: Yuriy Pylypchuk
Co-Author(s): Eric Sarpong
Discussant: Caroline S Carlin
1859 - The impact of primary care supply on quality of care in England
Presenting Author: Laura Vallejo-Torres
Co-Author(s): Stephen Morris
Discussant: Ana Tur-Prats
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room12
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1371 - Economics of Specialty Care
Presiding: Kathleen Carey
1630 - A COMPARISON OF AMBULATORY SURGERY CENTER PRODUCTION
COSTS AND MEDICARE PAYMENTS
Presenting Author: Jean M Mitchell
Co-Author(s): Kathleen Carey
Discussant: Vivian Ho
2596 - Does Health Information Exchange Reduce Redundant Imaging? Evidence from
Emergency Departments
Presenting Author: Eric J. Lammers
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Sunita Desai
2896 - Modelling Trajectories of Care for Persons with Terminal Illness
Presenting Author: Sally C Stearns
Co-Author(s): Mark Holmes; Carla Sueta
Discussant: Kathleen Carey
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room11
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1397 - Environmental Health and Safety Effects of Public Policy
Presiding: Johanna Catherine Maclean
2451 - As the Wind Blows: The Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Air Pollution on
Mortality
Presenting Author: Michael Anderson
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Reed Walker
2453 - The Impact of Air Pollution on Morbidity, Mortality and Healthcare Cost in the
Medicare Population
Presenting Author: David Molitor
Co-Author(s): Nolan Miller; Garth Heutel
Discussant: Christopher Ruhm
2865 - Did Cash for Clunkers Reduce Traffic Fatalities
Presenting Author: Nicole Hair
Co-Author(s): Carly Urban
Discussant: Johanna Catherine Maclean
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room4
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1364 - Health Care and Child Health
Presiding: Derek S Brown
2481 - The Affordable Care Act's Free Preventive Care Mandates and HPV Vaccinations:
An Early Look at a Troubled Area
Presenting Author: John Hsu
Co-Author(s): Mary Price; Teresa B Gibson; Arielle Bensimon; Vicki Fung; Mary Beth
Landrum; Michael Chernew; Mark Schuster; Joseph P. Newhouse
Discussant: Lindsey Leininger
2493 - The Spillover Effects of Immunizations
Presenting Author: Lenisa V Chang
Co-Author(s): Dara Lee Luca
Discussant: Elizabeth L. Munnich
2448 - Does selection bias affect children in Medicaid managed care? Enrollment and
transitions of children in child welfare
Presenting Author: Derek S Brown
Co-Author(s): Ben Allaire; Ramesh Raghavan
Discussant: Justin Trogdon
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room1
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1374 - Improving Drug Treatment for Mental Health Care
Presiding: Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
2388 - Clinical Inertia and Resource Utilization: Results for Bipolar Disorder Treatment
Presenting Author: Dominic Hodgkin
Co-Author(s): Elizabeth L. Merrick; Peggy O'Brien; Sue Lee; Grant Ritter; Thilo Deckersbach;
Andrew A Nierenberg
Discussant: Marisa E. Domino
2463 - Is There A Patent Expiration Dividend for Medicare Part D: Generic SecondGeneration Antipsychotics, Drug Spending, and Patient Adherence
Presenting Author: Vicki Fung
Co-Author(s): Mary Price; Mary Beth Landrum; Alisa Busch; Andrew A Nierenberg; Joseph P.
Newhouse; John Hsu
Discussant: Geoffrey Joyce
2951 - Medicaid Formulary Restrictions and Outcomes for Patients with Mental Illness
Presenting Author: Seth Seabury
Co-Author(s): Darius Lakdawalla; Dana Goldman
Discussant: Marguerite Burns
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room15
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1234 - Medical Technology Diffusion and Over-Use: The Role of Markets, Regulation and
Information
Presiding: Pinar Karaca-Mandic
2291 - Medical Technology Diffusion and Physician Market Structure
Presenting Author: Pinar Karaca-Mandic
Co-Author(s): Robert Town
Discussant: Laurence Baker
2292 - Diffusion of Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding after the Medicare National
Coverage Decision for Bariatric Surgery
Presenting Author: Lauren Hersch Nicholas
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Melinda B. Buntin
2293 - Low-Value Heath Care and Overuse of Services: Choosing Wisely
Presenting Author: Carrie H Colla
Co-Author(s): Nancy Morden; Thomas Sequist; Meredith Rosenthal
Discussant: Anupam Jena
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room8
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1373 - Nursing Homes, Quality and Outcomes
Presiding: R. Tamara Konetzka
1598 - Medicaid Reimbursement and Nursing Home Quality of Care Revisited
Presenting Author: John R Bowblis
Co-Author(s): Muhammad Ismat Amin; Robert Applebaum
Discussant: John Nyman
1877 - The Effect of PACE on Costs, Nursing Home Admissions, and Mortality: 2006-2011
Presenting Author: Arkadipta Ghosh
Co-Author(s): Robert Schmitz; Randall Brown
Discussant: Alan White
1938 - Moral Hazard and Long-Term Care Insurance
Presenting Author: R. Tamara Konetzka
Co-Author(s): Daifeng He; John Nyman; Jing Guo
Discussant: Edward Norton
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room14
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1366 - Organizations and Market Structure
Presiding: Leemore Dafny
1141 - Market Structure as a Determinant of Patient Care Quality: The Importance of
Controlling for Specialization
Presenting Author: Nathan E. Wilson
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Leemore Dafny
1741 - Vertical Mergers & Provider-Based Billing
Presenting Author: Thomas Koch
Co-Author(s): Nathan E. Wilson; Brett Wendling
Discussant: Abe Dunn
2645 - Network analysis of Medicare EHR incentive payments
Presenting Author: Eric Barrette
Co-Author(s): Jesse C Bockstedt
Discussant: Jeffrey S McCullough
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room10
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1379 - Physician Behavior
Presiding: Victoria Udalova
1883 - The Bystander Effect in Medical Consult Provision: A Game Theoretical and
Empirical Analysis
Presenting Author: Adam S Wilk
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Yiyang Li
2131 - Defensive Medicine and Physician Asset Protection
Presenting Author: Jeffrey Traczynski
Co-Author(s): Victoria Udalova
Discussant: Euna Han
2523 - Conflict of Interest or Valuable Information? The Impact of Pharmaceutical
Industry Payments on Physician Prescribing Behavior
Presenting Author: Sara E Parker
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Gregory G Lubiani
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room5
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1413 - Studies on the Demand for Health Care
Presiding:
1283 - The Effect of Copayments on Children's and Adolescents' Demand for Medical Care
Presenting Author: Anton Nilsson
Co-Author(s): Alexander Paul
Discussant: Galina Besstremyannaya
1753 - Health Insurance and the Demand for Medical Care: Instrumental Variable
Estimates using Health Insurer Claims
Presenting Author: Abe Dunn
Co-Author(s): Abe Dunn
Discussant: Rashmita Basu
2093 - The Price is Right: Demand for Medical Care in the Presence of Deductibles
Presenting Author: Helen Markelova
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Ian McCarthy
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room6
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1393 - The Group Insurance Tax Exclusion
Presiding: Mark Pauly
1458 - Optimal Health Insurance and the Distortionary Effects of the Tax Subsidy
Presenting Author: David M Powell
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Nirupama Rao
2191 - Coverage Effects of Limiting the Tax Exclusions for Employment-Based Health
Insurance
Presenting Author: Allison Percy
Co-Author(s): Jessica Banthin; Pamela Moomau; Alexandra Minicozzi
Discussant: Priyanka Anand
2269 - Labor Market Effects of the Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Tax Subsidy:
Evidence from Canada
Presenting Author: Nora Becker
Co-Author(s): Elena Prager; Preethi Rao
Discussant: Reagan Baughman
Monday, June 23, 2014, 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room2
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1361 - Aging and Demography
Presiding:
1608 - Family planning policy and the well-being of elderly in China
Presenting Author: Darjusch Tafreschi
Co-Author(s): Hao Zhang
Discussant: Karen A Fitzner
2856 - Co-residential Informal Caregiving and Female Labor Market Decisions
Presenting Author: Nicole Hair
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Laurel Beck
1986 - Dying to Win? Olympic Gold Medals and Longevity
Presenting Author: Adam Leive
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Nicolas R Ziebarth
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room3
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1205 - Behavioral Economics, Incentives, and Preventive Health Behavior: Evidence from
Three Randomized Field Experiments
Presiding: Ellen Magenheim
2266 - Improving the Structure of Financial Incentives for Exercise: Insights from
Behavioral Economics
Presenting Author: Heather Royer
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: John Cawley
2268 - Do Financial Incentives Reduce Intrinsic Motivation for Weight Loss?: Evidence
from Two Tests of Crowding Out
Presenting Author: Aditi Sen
Co-Author(s): Kevin G. Volpp; David Huffman
Discussant: Joseph Price
2265 - Diagnosing the Reasons for Low Vaccine Take-up, and a Test of Potential Remedies
Presenting Author: Erin Todd Bronchetti
Co-Author(s): David Huffman; Ellen Magenheim
Discussant: Eric Zwick
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room10
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1386 - Child Health and Development
Presiding: Michael A Morrisey
1392 - Parental Investment in Children Diagnosed with ADHD
Presenting Author: Kohei Enami
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Tiffany Green
2982 - Pediatric Concussions: Family Impact of Youth Sports Legislation
Presenting Author: Teresa B Gibson
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Michael A Morrisey
3010 - Is the Economy Associated with Child Maltreatment? — Evidence from the StateLevel Data in the 21 Century
Presenting Author: Feijun Luo
Co-Author(s): Beverly Fortson; Curtis Florence; Deborah Stone; Colby Lokey; Myriam QuispeAgnoli
Discussant: Teresa B Gibson
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room6
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1396 - Group Insurance Coverage
Presiding: Bradley Herring
1222 - The Effect of Health Savings Accounts on Group Health Insurance Coverage
Presenting Author: Jinqi Ye
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Bradley Heim
1930 - How Does Regulation of the Small Group Market Affect Firm Self-Insurance and
Implications for the Affordable Care Act
Presenting Author: Erin Trish
Co-Author(s): Bradley Herring
Discussant: Christine Eibner
2790 - Pricing of Coverage on SHOP Exchanges
Presenting Author: Jon R. Gabel
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Sebastian Panthoefer
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room4
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1368 - Health Systems and Health Care Finance
Presiding: Jose A Pagan
1980 - Can Patient-Centered Care Reduce the Overall Cost of Care?
Presenting Author: Paul Wong
Co-Author(s): Ming Tai-Seale
Discussant: Jose A Pagan
2154 - Market Inefficiency, Insurance Mandate and Welfare: U.S. Health Care Reform
2010
Presenting Author: Juergen Jung
Co-Author(s): Chung Tran
Discussant: Marietou Ouayogode
2298 - Impact of Financial Reserves and Liquidity Constraints on Hospital Capital
Investment
Presenting Author: Sung J Choi Yoo
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Sean S Huang
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room12
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1141 - New evaluation results from pay-for-performance in health care
Presiding: Andrew M Ryan
1718 - The effects of the Quality-Bonus Program on quality of care in Medicare Advantage
Presenting Author: Timothy Layton
Co-Author(s): Andrew M Ryan
Discussant: Daniel Polsky
1719 - Discontinuous provider response to financial incentives for quality improvement: An
evaluation of performance thresholds in nursing home pay-for-performance
Presenting Author: Rachel Werner
Co-Author(s): R. Tamara Konetzka; Meghan Skira
Discussant: Sean Nicholson
1720 - The effect of pay-for-performance on mortality in the United Kingdom
Presenting Author: Samuel Krinsky
Co-Author(s): Andrew M Ryan; Timothy Doran
Discussant: Matt Sutton
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room1
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1375 - Paying for Mental Health Care in Private and Public Plans
Presiding: Ming Tai-Seale
2827 - Use of Hospital-based Services among Young Adults with Behavioral Health
Diagnoses Before and After Health Insurance Expansions
Presenting Author: Ezra Golberstein
Co-Author(s): Ellen R Meara; Susan Busch
Discussant: Lindsey Leininger
2049 - Effect of Medicaid coverage generosity on downstream health care use among dual
beneficiaries with psychiatric and physical disabilities
Presenting Author: Marguerite E. Burns
Co-Author(s): Haiden Huskamp; Jessica C. Smith; Stephen B. Soumerai; Jeanne M Madden
Discussant: Sarah Meier
2166 - Grading Risk-Adjusted Health Plan Payments: Fit, Power, Balance
Presenting Author: Thomas McGuire
Co-Author(s): Thomas McGuire; Michael Geruso
Discussant: Randall P Ellis
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room11
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1398 - Public Health Interventions
Presiding: Timothy Classen
1759 - The Impact of State Contraceptive Insurance Mandates
Presenting Author: Anca Cotet
Co-Author(s): Angela Dills
Discussant: Tami Gurley-Calvez
2989 - The Effect of State-Level Sex Education Policies on Youth Sexual Behaviors
Presenting Author: W. David Bradford
Co-Author(s): Danielle Atkins
Discussant: Timothy Classen
3011 - Public Health Intervention− Impacts and Behavioral Responses
Presenting Author: Hyuncheol Bryant Kim
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Michael T Mathes
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room7
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1395 - Public Insurance and Children
Presiding:
1717 - How Does Expanded Public Health Insurance Coverage Impact Health Care Use of
Students? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in France
Presenting Author: Sophie Guthmuller
Co-Author(s): Florence Jusot
Discussant: Margaret S Colby
2344 - Mixed Eligibility and the Affordable Care Act, Healthcare Access and Utilization for
Children with Mixed Eligible Siblings
Presenting Author: Julie L Hudson
Co-Author(s): Salam Abdus
Discussant: Damien Sheehan-Connor
2813 - Health Care Utilization Among Children Enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP Via
Express Lane Eligibility
Presenting Author: Margaret S Colby
Co-Author(s): Brenda Natzke
Discussant: Benjamin D Sommers
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room9
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1445 - Regulatory Dynamics for Drugs and Devices
Presiding:
1493 - Innovation Under Regulatory Uncertainty: Evidence from Medical Technology
Presenting Author: Ariel Dora Stern
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Leila Agha
2997 - DISTINCTIVE MEDICAL DEVICE FEATURES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS
FOR HEALTH POLICY: INNOVATION, SAFETY, EFFICIENCY, EQUITY, AND
DATA NEEDS
Presenting Author: Louis Garrison
Co-Author(s): Rosanna Tarricone; Antonieta Medina-Lara; Frank A. Sloan; Ruben E MujicaMota
Discussant: Frank A. Sloan
1679 - The Signaling Effects of the FDA Orphan Designation
Presenting Author: Kathleen L. Miller
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Ernst Berndt
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room14
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1236 - Risks of substance abuse: smoking and alcohol
Presiding: Jody L Sindelar
2320 - A duration analysis of smoking initiation and cessation in China
Presenting Author: Deliana Kostova
Co-Author(s): Frank J Chaloupka
Discussant: Leah Shiferaw
2321 - Alcohol Demand and the Business Cycle: A Dynamic Panel-Data Analysis of Nielsen
Homescan Households
Presenting Author: Richard A Dunn
Co-Author(s): Chad Cotti; Nathan Tefft
Discussant: Henry Saffer
2322 - Discrete choice experiment of the demand for e-cigarettes
Presenting Author: Jody L Sindelar
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Catherine Maclean
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room5
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1420 - Studies of Hospital Readmission
Presiding:
1307 - Hospital readmission rate in US states: Is it higher where more chronically ill
patients cluster?
Presenting Author: Jayasree Basu
Co-Author(s): Rosa Avila
Discussant: Lee R Mobley
2905 - Does Length of Stay and Institution Mix for AMI Patients Affect Subsequent Health
and Costs?
Presenting Author: Linnea A Polgreen
Co-Author(s): John M. Brooks; Elizabeth Cook; Stephen Welch
Discussant: Mark Kurt
2078 - Incentivizing Cost-Effective Reductions in Hospital Readmission Rates
Presenting Author: Kurt E Schnier
Co-Author(s): James C Cox; Vjollca Sadiraj; John Sweeney
Discussant: Kurt E Schnier
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room15
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1298 - The Relationship between Investments in Health Information Technology, Provider
Efficiency and Health Outcomes
Presiding: Chad Meyerhoefer
2585 - The Impact of Electronic Health Record Adoption and Integration on Physician
Productivity and Health Outcomes
Presenting Author: Chad Meyerhoefer
Co-Author(s): Mary E Deily; Susan Sherer; Shin-Yi Chou; Lizhong Peng; Michael Sheinberg;
Donald Levick
Discussant: Jason M Hockenberry
2586 - Leveraging Electronic Health Records to Improve Hospital Performance: The Role
of Management
Presenting Author: Kirstin W Scott
Co-Author(s): Julia Adler-Milstein; Ashish Jha
Discussant: Bill Encinosa
2587 - Automated Disease Detection and the Demand for Human Experts: The Case of
Diabetic Retinopathy
Presenting Author: Lorens Helmchen
Co-Author(s): Harold Lehmann; Michael Abràmoff
Discussant: Sabrina Terrizzi
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room13
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1417 - Wellness and Screening
Presiding:
1615 - Positively Frightened: Spillover Effects of False-Positive Mammography on
Medication Adherence
Presenting Author: Joel Segel
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Preeti Zanwar
2405 - Do State Coverage Mandates for Preventive Cancer Screenings Change Behavior?
Presenting Author: Wendy Xu
Co-Author(s): Bryan Dowd; Jean Abraham
Discussant: Adam Atherly
2422 - Responding to Reward: Initiation and Maintenance of Regular Exercise in an
Incentive-Based Employer Wellness Program
Presenting Author: Daniel Crespin
Co-Author(s): Jean Abraham; Alexander Rothman
Discussant: Heather Royer
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room8
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1220 - Women's Health Issues
Presiding: Osea Giuntella
2222 - Are Taquerias Healthier than American Fast-Food Restaurants?
Presenting Author: Osea Giuntella
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Melanie S L Lefevre
2224 - Physician induced demand for cesarean sections: does the convenience incentive
matter?
Presenting Author: Melanie S L Lefevre
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Sarah A Kroeger
2225 - Assisted Reproductive Technology and Women's Choice to Pursue Professional
Degrees
Presenting Author: Sarah A Kroeger
Co-Author(s): Giulia La Mattina
Discussant: Osea Giuntella
Monday, June 23, 2014, 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room4
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1210 - Adoption and Diffusion of New Cancer Therapies: Implications for Costs and Policy
Presiding: Heather Taffet Gold
2159 - Trends in the Treatment of Advanced Stage Colon and Rectal Cancer
Presenting Author: Cathy Bradley
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Fabrice Smieliauskas
2160 - The effect of the diffusion of the Surgical Robot on the hospital-level utilization of
partial nephrectomy
Presenting Author: Ganesh Sivarajan
Co-Author(s): Glen Taksler; Dawn Walter; Marc Bjurlin; Cary P Gross; Raul Ernest Sosa; Danil
Makarov
Discussant: Vivian Ho
2155 - Diffusion and Health Impacts of New Breast Radiotherapy Technology
Presenting Author: Heather Taffet Gold
Co-Author(s): Dawn Walter; Huibo Shao; Mary Katherine Hayes; Eleni Tousimis
Discussant: Andrew Briggs
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room13
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1253 - Behavioral Experiments in Health Economics.
Presiding: Geir Godager
2369 - Professional norms and physician behavior: Homo oeconomicus or homo
hippocraticus?
Presenting Author: Iris Kesternich
Co-Author(s): Heiner Schumacher; Joachim Winter
Discussant: Randall P Ellis
2370 - The effect of fee-for-service, capitation, and mixed payment systems on physicians’
behavior: Experimental evidence
Presenting Author: Daniel Wiesen
Co-Author(s): Jeannette Brosig-Koch; Nadja Kairies-Schwarz; Heike Hennig-Schmidt; Daniel
Wiesen
Discussant: Sara R Machado
2371 - Does Prospective Physicians’ Behavior Depend on the Payment System? Results
from a Laboratory Experiment Applying a Within-Subject-Design
Presenting Author: Geir Godager
Co-Author(s): Jian Wang; Heike Hennig-Schmidt; Jing Lin
Discussant: Tom Chang
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room12
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1176 - Exploring Early ACA Impacts: Implications for Health Insurance Coverage
Presiding: Catherine McLaughlin
1908 - Early Changes in Employer-Sponsored Insurance and Worker Outcomes under the
Affordable Care Act: Real-Time Survey Results from the Health Reform Monitoring
Survey
Presenting Author: Frederic Blavin
Co-Author(s): Genevieve Kenney
Discussant: Kosali Simon
1910 - Small Businesses and Health Reform
Presenting Author: Catherine McLaughlin
Co-Author(s): Adam Swinburn
Discussant: Jessica Vistnes
1911 - Coverage Impacts of Early State Medicaid Expansions under Health Reform
Presenting Author: Benjamin D Sommers
Co-Author(s): Genevieve Kenney; Arnold Epstein
Discussant: Margaret S Colby
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room7
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1436 - Health Behaviors
Presiding:
1633 - The Effects of Language Proficiency on the Health and Health Behavior of
Immigrants
Presenting Author: N. Meltem Daysal
Co-Author(s): Mircea Trandafir; Ana Ferrer
Discussant: Sarah Bohn
2431 - How Do Reference Groups Affect Perceptions of Overweight Status?
Presenting Author: Katherine Carman
Co-Author(s): Mary Burke
Discussant: Olga Yakusheva
2005 - Does Violent Crime Deter Physical Activity?
Presenting Author: Katharina M Janke
Co-Author(s): Carol Propper; Michael A Shields
Discussant: Jane E Ruseski
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room5
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1434 - Health Care Use for Specific Diseases
Presiding: Frederic Selck
2870 - Health Services Use and Health Status Among People with Diabetes Mellitus and
Cardiovascular Diseases
Presenting Author: Chien-Ching Li
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Amanda Honeycutt
2963 - HEALTH SERVICE USE, EXPENDITURES AND TRENDS IN PAYMENTS IN
U.S. ADULTS WITH END-STAGE RENAL DISEASE: A NATIONAL STUDY
Presenting Author: Preeti Zanwar
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Frederic Selck
2623 - Can we identify the impact of social capital on cancer severity and mortality? An
exploratory study based on health surveys and national register data
Presenting Author: Eline Aas
Co-Author(s): Gudrun MW Bjørnelv; Geir Godager
Discussant: Nengliang (Aaron) Yao
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room2
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1201 - Innovation, Diffusion, and Valuation of New Medical Technologies
Presiding: Leila Agha
2120 - The Effect of U.S. Health Insurance Expansions on Medical Innovation
Presenting Author: Jeffrey P Clemens
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Jonathan Kolstad
2119 - The Local Influence of Principal Investigators on Technology Adoption
Presenting Author: Leila Agha
Co-Author(s): David Molitor
Discussant: David Chan
2122 - The Insurance Value of Medical Innovation
Presenting Author: Julian Reif
Co-Author(s): Darius Lackdawalla; Anup Malani
Discussant: Marika Cabral
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room15
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1372 - Labor Markets and Health
Presiding:
2858 - Wages, Benefits, and Worker Sorting Under Asymmetric Information
Presenting Author: Mark H. Showalter
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Brandy Lipton
1517 - Immigration, Working Conditions, and Health
Presenting Author: Fabrizio Mazzonna
Co-Author(s): Osea Giuntella
Discussant: Bastian Ravesteijn
1518 - The Wear and Tear on Health: What is the Role of Occupation?
Presenting Author: Bastian Ravesteijn
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Timothy Bond
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room14
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1235 - Market Structure and Market Power in Hospital and Physician Markets
Presiding: Matthew S Lewis
2311 - Hospital Systems and Bargaining Power: Evidence from Out-Of-Market
Acquisitions
Presenting Author: Matthew S Lewis
Co-Author(s): Kevin Pflum
Discussant: Samuel Kleiner
2312 - Price Effects of Hospital Mergers When the Hospitals are in Different Markets
Presenting Author: Leemore Dafny
Co-Author(s): Kate Ho; Robin Lee
Discussant: Kevin Pflum
2313 - Physician Practice Consolidation and Prices for Physician Services
Presenting Author: Anne Beeson Royalty
Co-Author(s): Laurence Baker; Kate Bundorf
Discussant: William D. White
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room6
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1408 - Moral Hazard Effects
Presiding:
1261 - Predictors of late-stage cancer diagnoses: multilevel factors and spatial interactions
across the entire US cancer population
Presenting Author: Lee R Mobley
Co-Author(s): Tzy-Mey Kuo
Discussant: H. E. Frech
1396 - The Effect of Copayments on Non-urgent Emergency Department Visits among
Adult Medicaid Enrollees
Presenting Author: Lindsay M Sabik
Co-Author(s): Sabina O Gandhi
Discussant: Karoline Mortensen
1301 - Moral Hazard and Economies of Scope in Physician Ownership of Complementary
Medical Services
Presenting Author: Brian K. Chen
Co-Author(s): Paul Gertler; Chun-Yuh Yang
Discussant: Karen Eggleston
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room10
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1380 - Obesity in Young People
Presiding:
1191 - The Effect of Sleep Duration on Body Weight in Adolescents: Evidence from a
Natural Experiment
Presenting Author: Young Kyung Do
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Bisakha Sen
1632 - Does Banning Carbonated Beverages in Schools Decrease Student Consumption?
Presenting Author: Shirlee Lichtman-Sadot
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Lorenzo Almada
2812 - The More the Heavier? Family Size and Childhood Obesity
Presenting Author: Ashlesha Datar
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Leigh A Leung
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room1
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1287 - Optimizing Medicaid policies for persons with mental illness
Presiding: Anne Libby
2548 - Effects of the Colorado Medicaid Accountable Care Collaborative on Psychotropic
Polypharmacy for Foster Children
Presenting Author: Anne Libby
Co-Author(s): Judy Zerzan; Daniel Hartung
Discussant: Kenneth John McConnell
2549 - Restoring Medicaid Coverage to Persons with Mental Illness Released from Prison
Presenting Author: Marisa E. Domino
Co-Author(s): Joseph P. Morrissey; Gary S Cuddeback; Jennifer Jolley
Discussant: Alison Cuellar
2550 - Estimating the impacts of Medicaid coverage expansions on psychiatric inpatient
utilization and expenditures
Presenting Author: Eric Slade
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Timothy Layton
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room8
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1387 - Pricing, Payment, and Hospital Outcomes
Presiding:
1595 - Measuring the Hospital Length of Stay/Readmission Cost Trade-off under a
Bundled Payment Mechanism
Presenting Author: Kathleen Carey
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Jason M Hockenberry
2233 - Hospital responses to price changes: Evidence from the 2007 switch to MS-DRGs
Presenting Author: Aditi Sen
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Jason M Hockenberry
2506 - Cutting Medicare Hospital Prices Leads to a Spillover Reduction in Utilization
Among the Nonelderly
Presenting Author: Chapin White
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Jing Guo
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room11
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1399 - Public and Private Insurance Spillovers 1
Presiding:
1658 - Spillover Effects of State Medicaid Expansion Decisions on Private Health Insurance
Markets
Presenting Author: Christine Eibner
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Sean M Lyons
1876 - How changes to rating rules under the ACA might affect Medicare spending
Presenting Author: Alexandra Minicozzi
Co-Author(s): Noelia Duchovny; Jessica Banthin
Discussant: Sandra Decker
2319 - Migrating to Medicaid? The Potential Spillover Effects of Expanding Medicaid
Under Health Reform
Presenting Author: Aaron L Schwartz
Co-Author(s): Benjamin D Sommers
Discussant: Kosali Simon
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room9
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1419 - The Great Recession and Health
Presiding:
1733 - The Impact of Diminished Housing Wealth on Health: Evidence from the Great
Recession
Presenting Author: Patryk Babiarz
Co-Author(s): Fen Liu; Tansel Yilmazer
Discussant: Dean Lillard
1847 - Healthcare Utilization during the Great Recession: Findings from a Panel of U.S.
Workers
Presenting Author: Rita Hamad
Co-Author(s): Mark R Cullen; Sepideh Modrek
Discussant: Robert Kaestner
2407 - How Does Family Health Care Use Respond to Economic Shocks? Evidence from
the Great Recession
Presenting Author: Alan C. Monheit
Co-Author(s): Irina B Grafova; Rizie Kumar
Discussant: Pinar Karaca-Mandic
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room3
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1322 - Weight Loss Program Effectiveness and Influencing Factors
Presiding: Wen You
2795 - A Field Experiment of the Effect of Cost Sharing on An Employee Weight Loss
Program
Presenting Author: Kevin G. Volpp
Co-Author(s): Leslie K John; Andrea Troxel; Joelle Friedman; Scott Halpern; William Yancy;
George Loewenstein
Discussant: Jody L Sindelar
2798 - Deeper Look at Weight Loss Program Effectiveness: Beyond Prevalence Rate
Reduction
Presenting Author: Jackie Yenerall
Co-Author(s): Wen You; Paul Estabrooks
Discussant: Deliana Kostova
2808 - The Effect of Education on Obesity: Evidence from College Attendance during the
Vietnam War
Presenting Author: John Cawley
Co-Author(s): Daniel Grossman; Damien deWalque
Discussant: Michael F. Pesko
Monday, June 23, 2014, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room14
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1421 - Economics of Addictive Behaviors
Presiding: Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
1259 - The Role of Epigenetics versus Environment on Addictive Behaviors
Presenting Author: Titus J Galama
Co-Author(s): Gabriella Conti
Discussant: Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
1411 - Early childhood adversity, mental health, and substance use: The role of parental
investments
Presenting Author: Johanna Catherine Maclean
Co-Author(s): Ioana Popovici; Michael T. French
Discussant: Joseph Sabia
2214 - Is There a Stepping-Stone Effect in Drug Use? Separating State Dependence from
Unobserved Heterogeneity Within and Across Illicit Drugs
Presenting Author: Monica Deza
Co-Author(s):
Discussant:
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room5
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1282 - Health Economics and Decision Analysis at the US Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, I
Presiding: Adam Skelton
2797 - Utilization and Costs of Informal Caregiving Among Congestive Heart Failure
Patients
Presenting Author: Heesoo Joo
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Ram K Shrestha
2799 - Estimating the Cost of Increasing Retention in Care for HIV-Infected Patients:
Results of the CDC/HRSA Retention in Care Trial
Presenting Author: Ram K Shrestha
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Ji Lin
2478 - Projection of diabetes burden in the US adult population through 2060
Presenting Author: Ji Lin
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Heesoo Joo
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room4
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1437 - Health IT, Nurses, and Outcomes
Presiding:
1295 - Market Dynamics and Health Information Exchange
Presenting Author: Sunita Desai
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Jeffrey S McCullough
2776 - Value Added of Nurses in Acute Care
Presenting Author: Olga Yakusheva
Co-Author(s): Richard Lindrooth; Marianne Weiss
Discussant: Coady Wing
2267 - Are There Heterogeneous Effects of Electronic Medical Records Adoption on
Patient Health Outcomes?
Presenting Author: Seth Freedman
Co-Author(s): Haizhen Lin; Jeffrey Prince
Discussant: Jeffrey S McCullough
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room10
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1392 - HIV and Prevention Economics
Presiding:
2941 - HIV Treatment, Mortality, and Labor Market Outcomes in Malawi
Presenting Author: Jeremy Barofsky
Co-Author(s): Neeraj Sood; Zachary Wagner
Discussant: Omar Galarraga
2429 - Repeat HIV Testing and Risky Sexual Behavior: Evidence from a Randomized
Controlled Trial in Malawi
Presenting Author: Zachary Wagner
Co-Author(s): Neeraj Sood; Adeline Delavande
Discussant: Manisha Shah
2543 - A COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS OF PRE-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS
(PrEP) FOR THE PREVENTION OF HIV IN THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MSM
POPULATION
Presenting Author: Emmanuel F Drabo
Co-Author(s): Joel Hay; Raffaele Vardavas; Zachary Wagner; Neeraj Sood
Discussant:
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room8
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1388 - Hospital Integration, Ownership, and Outcomes
Presiding:
2118 - Hospital Mergers and Quality of Care: Evidence from Heart Attack Patients and
Pregnancy Outcomes in Pennsylvania
Presenting Author: Shanshan Liu
Co-Author(s): Shin-Yi Chou
Discussant: Rexford Santerre
2135 - Hospital Ownership Type and Service Provision
Presenting Author: Esra Eren Bayindir
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Nathan E. Wilson
2845 - The Effects of Vertical Integration on Health Care Costs and Patient Outcomes
Presenting Author: Peter Huckfeldt
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Carrie H Colla
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room2
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1311 - Incentives and Prevention: Research supported by the NIH Common Fund Health
Economics Program
Presiding: Gregory Bloss
2693 - Financial versus Health Motivation to Quit Smoking: A Randomized Field Study
Presenting Author: Jody L Sindelar
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Neeraj Sood
2699 - The Impact of Wellness Programs and Incentives on Preventive Services
Presenting Author: Alison Cuellar
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Adam Atherly
2700 - Evaluation of Rewards Program for Preventive Care
Presenting Author: Roland Sturm
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Ya-Chen Tina Shih
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room15
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1238 - Inside the Institutional Black-box: A Closer Look at Physicians
Presiding: Pinar Karaca-Mandic
2331 - Learning and Authority: Dynamics of Housestaff Practice Styles
Presenting Author: David Chan
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: David Molitor
2333 - The effect of ACGME resident duty hour reforms on outcomes of physicians after
completion of residency
Presenting Author: Anupam Jena
Co-Author(s): Lena Schoemaker; Jay Bhattacharya
Discussant: Geoffrey Joyce
2336 - Physician-Hospital Stability and Mortality in Cardiology
Presenting Author: Andrew Wilcock
Co-Author(s): Pinar Karaca-Mandic
Discussant: Kate Bundorf
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room7
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1403 - Insurance and Incentives for Health
Presiding:
2043 - The Long-Term Impacts of Medicaid
Presenting Author: Michel H Boudreaux
Co-Author(s): Ezra Golberstein; Donna McAlpine
Discussant: Heather Dahlen
2702 - SMOKING DECISIONS, HEALTH SHOCKS, AND EX POST MORAL HAZARD
Presenting Author: Michael R Richards
Co-Author(s): Joachim E Marti
Discussant: Adam Leive
2862 - Health Insurance Subsidies Reduce Mortality for Low Income Individuals
Presenting Author: Martin Andersen
Co-Author(s): Simona Grassi; Mark A Dusheiko
Discussant: Benjamin D Sommers
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room12
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1382 - Long Term Impacts of Obesity
Presiding:
2403 - The time trends and the determinants of adult obesity measured by a fatness-based
index
Presenting Author: Minchul Kim
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Euna Han
2536 - Why is obesity trickling down to lower income classes in China? a longitudinal
decomposition
Presenting Author: Tom Van Ourti
Co-Author(s): Darjusch Tafreschi
Discussant: Liisa Väisänen
2822 - Obesity and Long-Term Earnings
Presenting Author: Liisa Väisänen
Co-Author(s): Ari Hyytinen
Discussant: Wenjia Zhu
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room1
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1377 - Mental Health Treatment Across the Lifecourse
Presiding:
2350 - Role of Pro-social behavior in the causal pathway from Economic conditions early in
life to cognitive decline in the elderly
Presenting Author: Sumedha Gupta
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Cyril F Chang
2607 - Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Receipt of Specialty Services among Children with
Mental Health Need Enrolled in the Children's Mental Health Initiative
Presenting Author: Susan L Ettner
Co-Author(s): Ioana Popescu; Anya Krivelyova; Haiyong Xu
Discussant: Derek S Brown
2825 - Early Onset Mood Disorders, Human Capital Accumulation, and Labor Market
Outcomes in Early Adulthood
Presenting Author: Erin Kaplan
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Asako Moriya
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room3
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1407 - Physician Practice Patterns
Presiding: Coady Wing
1168 - The Impact of an Increased Perception of Malpractice Liability on the Practice of
Defensive Medicine
Presenting Author: Brian K. Chen
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Karen Eggleston
2200 - Will Medical Homes Impact Health Care Services Utilization and Costs? Lessons
from Family Medicine Groups (Canada)
Presenting Author: Mehdi Ammi
Co-Author(s): Erin Strumpf; Mamadou Diop; Julie Fiset-Laniel; Pierre Tousignant
Discussant: Coady Wing
2887 - The Effects of Quality Standards on Healthcare Provider Behavior: Evidence from
Organ Transplantation
Presenting Author: Sarah Stith
Co-Author(s): Richard Hirth
Discussant: Brady P Horn
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room11
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1400 - Public and Private Insurance Spillovers 2
Presiding:
2337 - The Effects of State Medicaid Expansions on Medicare Beneficiaries
Presenting Author: Jennifer M. Mellor
Co-Author(s): Melissa McInerney; Lindsay M Sabik
Discussant: James Marton
2522 - Medicare Managed Care Spillovers and Treatment Intensity
Presenting Author: Kevin Callison
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Troy Quast
2611 - The Impact of Means-Tested Medicare Part B Premiums on Retirement
Presenting Author: Padmaja Ayyagari
Co-Author(s): Frank A. Sloan
Discussant: Thomas Rice
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room6
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1159 - Rising Premium Costs, the Cadillac Tax, and Employers' Demand for Labor
Presiding: Alice Zawacki
1793 - Bending the Cost Curve: Explaining the Recent Slowdown in Premium Growth for
Employer-Sponsored Insurance
Presenting Author: Alice Zawacki
Co-Author(s): Thomas Selden; Jessica Vistnes
Discussant: Jean Abraham
2557 - Rising Health Insurance Costs and the Trade-off Between Hours and Employment
Presenting Author: Kristin McCue
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Kosali Simon
2554 - The Cadillac Tax: Targeting "Luxury" in a High-Cost World
Presenting Author: Jessica Vistnes
Co-Author(s): Edward Miller; Thomas Selden
Discussant: Alan C. Monheit
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room9
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1211 - The Wages of Nurses
Presiding: Peter Buerhaus
2156 - Relative Quality of Foreign Nurses in the United States
Presenting Author: Patricia Cortes
Co-Author(s): Jessica Pan
Discussant: Edward Schumacher
2158 - The Return of Men to Nursing
Presenting Author: Elizabeth L. Munnich
Co-Author(s): Abigail Wozniak
Discussant: Frank A. Sloan
2566 - Licensing and Liability: The Effects of Scope of Practice Laws and Tort Reform on
Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant Income
Presenting Author: Benjamin J. McMichael
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Joanne Spetz
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room13
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1415 - Women's Health Care
Presiding: Joel Segel
1061 - Social Interactions and Breast Cancer Prevention Among Women over 50 in the U.S
Presenting Author: Natallia Gray
Co-Author(s): Gabriel Picone
Discussant: Joel Segel
1570 - Impact of the 2009 United States Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations
for Breast Cancer Screening on Utilization of Mammography: A Longitudinal Data
Analysis
Presenting Author: Nengliang (Aaron) Yao
Co-Author(s): Cathy Bradley; Patricia M Miranda
Discussant: David Howard
2153 - Texas Funding Cuts and Women's Preventive Health Care
Presenting Author: Yao Lu
Co-Author(s): David Slusky
Discussant: James Bailey
Monday, June 23, 2014, 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room13
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM
1017 - Early Life Endowments and the Production of Skill and Health Capital
Presiding: Titus J Galama
1067 - The Production of Health: the Role of Early Endowments and Sequential Education
Choices
Presenting Author: Rong Hai
Co-Author(s): James Heckman; Sergio Urzua; Greg Veramendi; Gabriella Conti
Discussant: Arie Kapteyn
1068 - Personality, Education, and Health-Related Outcomes
Presenting Author: Peter Savelyev
Co-Author(s): Kegon Tan
Discussant: Erik Meijer
1069 - A Theory of Early-Life Parental and Middle- and Late-Life Own Investments in
Health
Presenting Author: Titus J Galama
Co-Author(s): Gabriella Conti; James Heckman
Discussant: Rebecca Kilburn
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room3
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM
1444 - Economics of Patents
Presiding:
2395 - Settlement of Brand-Generic Patent Disputes in Pharmaceuticals: Risk Mitigation
or Anticompetitive Pay-for-Delay?
Presenting Author: Keith M Drake
Co-Author(s): Martha A Starr; Thomas McGuire
Discussant: Laura E Panattoni
2517 - Pharmaceutical Patent Challenges and Their Implications for Innovation and
Generic Competition
Presenting Author: Henry Grabowski
Co-Author(s): Rahul Guha; Carlos Brain; Anna Taub
Discussant: W. David Bradford
1501 - Pharmaceuticals, Incremental Innovation and Market Exclusivity
Presenting Author: Nina Yin
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Rong Hai
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room10
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM
1107 - Effects of Policies on the Use of Health Care Services
Presiding: Leigh A Leung
1553 - Medicaid Pay-For-Performance (P4P) Programs and the Use of Preventive Care
Services
Presenting Author: Tianyan Hu
Co-Author(s): Sandra Decker; Shin-Yi Chou
Discussant: Nicolas A Stacey
1554 - Effect of Cost-Sharing on the Demand for Preventive Cardiovascular Disease
Screening: Evidence from Medicare
Presenting Author: Shailender Swaminathan
Co-Author(s): Leigh A Leung
Discussant: Kandice Kapinos
1555 - Moral Hazard and Less Invasive Medical Treatment for Coronary Artery Disease
Presenting Author: Jason M Hockenberry
Co-Author(s): Michael Grossman; Shin-Yi Chou; Jesse Margolis
Discussant: Christina Marsh
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room11
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM
1405 - Effects of the ACA
Presiding:
2459 - Health Insurance and the Supply of Entrepreneurs: New Evidence from the
Affordable Care Act's Dependent Coverage Mandate
Presenting Author: James Bailey
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Steven Hill
2993 - Thanks, Mom and Dad: Coverage and Selection among Young Adults after the
Affordable Care Act's Dependent Coverage Expansion
Presenting Author: Emily R Gee
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Lindsay M Sabik
2643 - Early Evidence on Federal Rate Review Regulation and Premiums in the Individual
and Small Group Markets
Presenting Author: Pinar Karaca-Mandic
Co-Author(s): Brent Fulton; Richard Scheffler
Discussant: Scott Harrington
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room2
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM
1367 - Equity and Health Economics
Presiding:
1262 - Interventions to Increase High School Completion Rate among School-aged
Children and Youth to Promote Health Equity: A Systematic Economic Review
Presenting Author: Shuli Qu
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Shuli Qu
2117 - Does Having Health Insurance Reduce Poverty? A Health Inclusive Poverty
Measure under the Massachusetts Reform
Presenting Author: Dahlia Remler
Co-Author(s): Sanders Korenman
Discussant: Linda Dynan
2940 - Backdating to Dialysis: Effects on Access and Policy Implications”
Presenting Author: Sarah Stith
Co-Author(s): Randall S Sung
Discussant: Eric J. Lammers
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room15
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM
1327 - Health Insurance Expansions, Access, and Utilization
Presiding: Brandy Lipton
2850 - Acceptance of New Medicaid Patients by Primary Care Physicians and Experiences
with Physician Availability among Children on Medicaid or the Children’s Health
Insurance Program
Presenting Author: Sandra Decker
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Suhui Li
2851 - The Affordable Care Act and HPV Vaccine Take-Up
Presenting Author: Brandy Lipton
Co-Author(s): Sandra Decker
Discussant: Frederic Selck
2854 - Expanding Public Insurance to Rural Wisconsin Low-Income Childless Adults
Increases the Use of Medical Care
Presenting Author: Thomas DeLeire
Co-Author(s): Marguerite Burns; Laura Dague; Lindsey Leininger
Discussant: Deliana Kostova
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room8
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM
1390 - Hospital Organization, Regulation, and Outcomes
Presiding: Rexford Santerre
1951 - Repeal of CON Laws and Health Outcomes
Presenting Author: Sabrina Terrizzi
Co-Author(s): Yang Wang; Susan Averett
Discussant: Dhaval Dave
2151 - Hospitalists and Hospital Productivity
Presenting Author: Rezwan Haque
Co-Author(s): Robert Huckman
Discussant: Anupam Jena
2496 - Externalities of Inter-facility Patient Sharing: Diffusion of Healthcare Acquired
Infections
Presenting Author: Jacob E Simmering
Co-Author(s): Linnea A Polgreen; Joseph E Cavanaugh; Philip M Polgreen
Discussant: Erik Nesson
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room7
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM
1404 - Insurance and Financial Outcomes
Presiding: Richard Hirth
1316 - The Effects of Medicare on Medical Expenditure Risk and Financial Strain
Presenting Author: Mireille Jacobson
Co-Author(s): Silvia H Barcellos
Discussant: Helen Levy
2335 - New Evidence on the Persistence of High Health Spending
Presenting Author: Anup Das
Co-Author(s): Richard Hirth; Helen Levy; Teresa Gibson; Jeffrey Smith; Sebastian Calonico
Discussant: Irina B Grafova
2424 - Managing Financial Risk through Social Health Insurance: Welfare Effects of an
Indian Health Insurance Scheme for the Poor
Presenting Author: Neeraj Sood
Co-Author(s): Arnab Mukherji; Zachary Wagner; Patrick Mullen
Discussant: William H. Dow
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room4
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM
1424 - International Health Economics
Presiding:
1105 - International Health Economics
Presenting Author: Tomas J Philipson
Co-Author(s): Mark L Egan
Discussant: Martin Gaynor
2030 - Does the Health Care Kuznets Curve Exist? Evidence from China, 1949-2010
Presenting Author: Xuezheng Qin
Co-Author(s): Chee-Ruey Hsieh
Discussant: Daniel S Tello
1324 - The welfare impact of parallel imports: A structural approach applied to the
German market for oral anti-diabetics
Presenting Author: Moritz Suppliet
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Margaret Kyle
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room6
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM
1174 - Market Concentration in Health Care and Health Insurance Markets
Presiding: Andrew Friedson
1886 - How Do Health Insurer Market Concentration and Bargaining Power with
Hospitals Affect Health Insurance Premiums?
Presenting Author: Erin Trish
Co-Author(s): Bradley Herring
Discussant: Vivian Wu
1887 - Discounts and Denials: Insurance Company and Provider Bargaining
Presenting Author: Andrew Friedson
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: John Romley
1888 - Provider Market Power and Health Care Costs: Evidence from Claims Data
Presenting Author: Reagan Baughman
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Benjamin Crost
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room12
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM
1212 - Modeling the workforce demand impacts of the Affordable Care Act
Presiding: Peter Buerhaus
2162 - Projecting Local Healthcare Use in the US through 2030
Presenting Author: Mark Holmes
Co-Author(s): Erin Fraher; Marisa Morrison
Discussant: Steve Parente
2163 - Projected Job Growth under the Affordable Care Act and Strategies to Ensure
Adequate Supply
Presenting Author: Bianca K. Frogner
Co-Author(s): Joanne Spetz; Steve Parente
Discussant: Jean Abraham
2164 - The Impacts of Health Care Reform on Hospital Salaries, Wages, and Hours:
Lessons from Massachusetts
Presenting Author: Melanie Cozad
Co-Author(s): Susan Feng Lu
Discussant: David Auerbach
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room9
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM
1447 - Pharmaceuticals
Presiding: Rena Conti
1879 - Do Statins Protect Against Pneumonia?
Presenting Author: Linnea A Polgreen
Co-Author(s): Philip M Polgreen; Elizabeth Cook
Discussant: Rena Conti
2876 - Pricing trends in the market for anticancer drugs
Presenting Author: David Howard
Co-Author(s): Rena Conti
Discussant: Mary C. Schroeder
2669 - AN APPROACH FOR MAXIMISING EXTERNAL VALIDITY IN COSTEFFECTIVENESS ANALYSES (CEA)
Presenting Author: Richard Grieve
Co-Author(s): Jasjeet Sekhon
Discussant: Daniel Polsky
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room5
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM
1320 - Roles of Financial and Nonfinancial Incentives in Health Promotion
Presiding: Wen You
2773 - Designing Financial Incentives to Maximize Participation of Target Populations in
Weight Loss Programs
Presenting Author: Wen You
Co-Author(s): Yuan Yuan; Kevin Boyle
Discussant: Nathan Tefft
2774 - Personality Traits and Body Weight: Evidence from the Health and Retirement
Study
Presenting Author: Asia Sikora
Co-Author(s): Johanna Catherine Maclean
Discussant: Michael R Richards
2789 - A Randomized Controlled Trial of Financial Incentives for Home-Based Health
Monitoring
Presenting Author: Aditi Sen
Co-Author(s): Kevin G. Volpp
Discussant: Todd Olmstead
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room1
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM
1285 - Sex, Substance Use, and Salacious TV
Presiding: Joseph Sabia
2546 - The Effect of Changes in Emergency Contraception Availability on Pregnancy
Intendedness: Evidence from the PRAMS
Presenting Author: Christine Durrance
Co-Author(s): Danielle Atkins; W. David Bradford
Discussant: Karen S Conway
2547 - Do Recessions Rein in Your Teen?
Presenting Author: Melinda Pitts
Co-Author(s): Laura Argys
Discussant: Susan Averett
2569 - The Role of New Media on Teen Sexual Behaviors and Fertility Outcomes
Presenting Author: Jennifer Trudeau
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Melanie Guldi
Monday, June 23, 2014, Room14
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM
1214 - The Impacts of Medical Marijuana Laws
Presiding: Christopher Carpenter
2168 - The impact of medical marijuana laws on youth attitudes toward and use of illicit
substances
Presenting Author: Joanne Spetz
Co-Author(s): Laura Schmidt
Discussant: D. Mark Anderson
3024 - The Effect of legalization Medical Marijuana on Emergency Room Visits Involving
Other Substances
Presenting Author: D. Mark Anderson
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
2565 - Do Medical Marijuana Laws Increase Hard Drug Use?
Presenting Author: Yu-Wei Luke Chu
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Johanna Catherine Maclean
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room15
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1070 - Can self-reported health measures be more useful to health economists?
Presiding: Thomas Rice
1390 - Anchoring vignettes and measures of health: adjusting for systematic differences in
reporting behaviour
Presenting Author: Paula Lorgelly
Co-Author(s): Rachel J Knott; Nicole Au; Bruce P. Hollingsworth
Discussant: Susan L Ettner
1389 - Mis-Reporting and heterogeneous reporting behaviours in models of self reported
health
Presenting Author: Mark Harris
Co-Author(s): Bruce P. Hollingsworth; William Greene; Nigel Rice
Discussant: John Wildman
1391 - Anchoring vignettes and self-assessed ratings: Monte-Carlo evidence on specification
Presenting Author: Nigel Rice
Co-Author(s): William Greene; Mark Harris
Discussant: Teresa Bago d'Uva
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room8
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1308 - Causes and Consequences of Health Plan Choice
Presiding: Sebastian Bauhoff
2635 - Health Insurance for “Humans”: Information Frictions, Plan Choice, and Consumer
Welfare
Presenting Author: Jonathan Kolstad
Co-Author(s): Benjamin R Handel
Discussant: Joachim Winter
2634 - Are Medicare Beneficiaries Susceptible to Default Effects?
Presenting Author: Anna Sinaiko
Co-Author(s): Richard Frank; Richard Zeckhauser
Discussant: Keith Ericson
2641 - The Price Sensitivity of Health Plan Choice among Retirees: Evidence from the
German Social Health Insurance
Presenting Author: Amelie Wuppermann
Co-Author(s): Sebastian Bauhoff; Markus Grabka
Discussant: Thomas Buchmueller
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room5
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1336 - Coverage expansion and the demand for health services: New data sources for
measuring access
Presiding: Katherine Hempstead
2906 - Monitoring Demands for Hospital Care: An Analysis of State Discharge Data
Presenting Author: Katherine Hempstead
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Sujoy Chakravarty
2897 - Using an Internet-Based Survey to Measure Coverage and Access to Health Care:
The Health Reform Monitoring Survey
Presenting Author: Stephen Zuckerman
Co-Author(s): Sharon K. Long; Genevieve Kenney; Dana Goin
Discussant: Pamela Farley Short
2898 - Assessing Access to New Patient appointments: Comparing Survey to Audit
Methodology
Presenting Author: Daniel Polsky
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: John Graves
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room1
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1422 - Demand for Illicit Drugs
Presiding:
1790 - Estimating the Price Elasticities of Demand for Illicit Drugs: Real-World vs.
Laboratory Data
Presenting Author: Todd Olmstead
Co-Author(s): Sheila Alessi; Rosalie Liccardo Pacula; Nancy Petry; Brendan Kline
Discussant: Brendan Salomer
1932 - Substance Use Disorder Treatment under New Payment and Delivery System
Models
Presenting Author: Haiden Huskamp
Co-Author(s): Colleen L Barry
Discussant: Yi Xu
2505 - Estimating Demand for Substance Use Disorder Treatment Models
Presenting Author: Susan Busch
Co-Author(s): Colleen L Barry; Andrew Epstein; David Fiellin
Discussant:
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room4
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1439 - Drivers of Health Care Costs
Presiding:
1247 - HETEROGENEOUS EFFECT OF COINSURANCE ON HEALTHCARE COSTS
Presenting Author: Galina Besstremyannaya
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Mark Pauly
2710 - Federally-Qualified Health Centers and the Use of and Costs of Care for Medicaid
Presenting Author: Sandra Decker
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Stacey McMorrow
2760 - Peer effects among hospitalized patients: Evidence from roommate assignments
Presenting Author: Olga Yakusheva
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Justin Trogdon
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room2
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1389 - Economics of Hospital Quality
Presiding:
1358 - Measuring The Quality of Hospital Quality Assessment: Implications for Reference
Pricing
Presenting Author: John Graves
Co-Author(s): John Graves; Jonathan Gruber; Joseph Doyle
Discussant: Darren Grant
1825 - Are Higher-Volume Hospitals Really Better?
Presenting Author: Woohyeon Kim
Co-Author(s): Vivian Ho; Stephen H Wolff
Discussant: Woohyeon Kim
1848 - Patient Selection Under Quality Incentives: Evidence from Hospital Value-Based
Purchasing Program
Presenting Author: Lizhong Peng
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Sara R Machado
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room6
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1215 - Effects of Insurance Market Regulations: Filling in the Puzzle
Presiding: Christina Marsh
2192 - Why Do Firms Use Insurance to Fund Worker Health Benefits? The Role of
Corporate Finance
Presenting Author: Christina Marsh
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Michael A Morrisey
2194 - Impact of State Health Insurance Mandates on Self Insurance
Presenting Author: Kosali Simon
Co-Author(s): Phillip Cooper; Ginger Jin
Discussant: Kate Bundorf
2198 - Entrepreneurship and Job Lock: The Interaction Between Tax Subsidies and Health
Insurance Regulations
Presenting Author: Sayeh Nikpay
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Jessica Vistnes
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room12
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1216 - Evaluating the young adult dependent coverage provision of the Affordable Care
Act
Presiding: Yaa Akosa Antwi
2171 - Impacts of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Mandate on HealthRelated Outcomes of Young Adults
Presenting Author: Charles Courtemanche
Co-Author(s): Silvia Barbaresco; Yanling Qi
Discussant: Anne Beeson Royalty
2173 - Access to Health Insurance and the Utilization of Medical Care: Evidence from the
2010 ACA Extension of Health Insurance to Young Adults
Presenting Author: Asako Moriya
Co-Author(s): Kosali Simon; Yaa Akosa Antwi
Discussant: Lauren Hersch Nicholas
2175 - Financial protection due to Dependent Care Provisions in the Affordable Care Act
Presenting Author: Ellen R Meara
Co-Author(s): Susan Busch; Ezra Golberstein
Discussant: Christopher Whaley
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room7
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1429 - Health Insurance and Prescription Drug Coverage
Presiding:
1854 - Modeling and Evaluating Consumers' Prescription Drug Plans Choices in Medicare
Part D
Presenting Author: Jonathan Ketcham
Co-Author(s): Nicolai Kuminoff; Christopher Powers
Discussant: John Romley
1995 - Did Medicare Part D Contribute to the Rise in Opioid Overdose Deaths in the U.S.?
Presenting Author: Erin A. Taylor
Co-Author(s): Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
Discussant: Marisa E Domino
1981 - Identifying the Effect of the Tennessee Affordable Drug Act of 2005: Do mandatory
generic substitution laws matter?
Presenting Author: Sabrina Terrizzi
Co-Author(s): Chad Meyerhoefer
Discussant: David B. Ridley
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room10
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1066 - Marriage and Fertility
Presiding: Dhaval Dave
1329 - 1. Has Mexico’s Education Reform Affected Women’s Fertility Related Behavior?
Presenting Author: Michael Grossman
Co-Author(s): Jan van Ours; Jenny Williams; Mabel A. Andalón
Discussant: Alison Cuellar
1330 - 2. Till Bad Health Do us Part? Gender Differences in Spousal Abandonment after
Health Shocks
Presenting Author: Lauren Hersch Nicholas
Co-Author(s): Yaa A Antwi
Discussant: Ana Balsa
1331 - 3. Publicly-provided Health Insurance and Ex Ante Moral Hazard: The Case of
Medicaid Expansions for Pregnant Women
Presenting Author: Dhaval Dave
Co-Author(s): Robert Kaestner; George L Wehby
Discussant: Wen You
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room3
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1442 - Medication Adherence
Presiding:
2764 - Understanding Medication Adherence Using Stated-Preference Data
Presenting Author: Juan Marcos Gonzalez
Co-Author(s): Christine Poulos; F. Reed Johnson; Patrick Mollon
Discussant: Dominic Hodgkin
2958 - Impact of Provider Mailings on Medication Adherence in Medicare Part D Patients
Presenting Author: Bijan J. Borah
Co-Author(s): Yang Qiu; Nilay Shah; Patrick Gleason
Discussant: W. David Bradford
2767 - Using Medication Adherence as a Measure of Healthcare Quality
Presenting Author: Seth Seabury
Co-Author(s): Darius Lakdawalla; Dana Goldman; Jeff Sullivan Sullivan; Samantha Dougherty
Discussant: Rashmita Basu
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room13
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1383 - Obesity and Health Care Spending
Presiding:
2284 - Lifetime reductions in medical expenditures as a result of participation in diet and
exercise counseling programs designed to reduce child and adolescent obesity
Presenting Author: Andrew James Messali
Co-Author(s): Jason Doctor
Discussant: Joel Segel
2302 - Medical Innovation and the Changing Health and Health Care Costs of Obesity
Presenting Author: Etienne Gaudette
Co-Author(s): Etienne Gaudette; Dana Goldman; Neeraj Sood; Andrew James Messali
Discussant: Laura Shinn
2323 - The Impact of Obesity Duration on Healthcare Use
Presenting Author: Eamon Molloy
Co-Author(s): Noelia Duchovny
Discussant: Amanda Honeycutt
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room14
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1438 - Payment Systems and Primary Care
Presiding:
2725 - Do patients use online messaging to substitute for office visits and phone calls?
Results from a natural experiment
Presenting Author: Laura E Panattoni
Co-Author(s): Sean McClellan; Ming Tai-Seale
Discussant: Christine Chee
1866 - Evaluating pay-for-performance programs in health care: a comparison of synthetic
control and difference-in-differences approaches
Presenting Author: Noemi Kreif
Co-Author(s): Richard Grieve; Matt Sutton; Silviya Nikolova
Discussant: Andrew M Ryan
2469 - Competition through wait times in the market for unscheduled care
Presenting Author: Ari B. Friedman
Co-Author(s): Elena Prager
Discussant: Sean McClellan
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room11
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1406 - Political Economy and State Choices
Presiding:
1169 - Predictors of Increased Privitization and Competition in Medicaid
Presenting Author: Victoria Perez
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Andrew Mulcahy
2146 - How do State Revenue Swings Influence the Provision of Health, Education, and
Welfare Services?
Presenting Author: Vivian Ho
Co-Author(s): Richard T Boylan
Discussant: Nathan Dong
2249 - Do Hospital Employees Gain from a CON law
Presenting Author: Rexford Santerre
Co-Author(s): Resul Cesur
Discussant: Darren Grant
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room9
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1188 - Subjective well-being, health, and income
Presiding: France Weaver
2031 - An anatomy of old-age disability in low- and middle-income countries: Time use,
emotional experiences and subjective wellbeing
Presenting Author: Jurgen Maurer
Co-Author(s): Michael Ingenhaag; Gabriela Flores
Discussant: Gema Zamarro
2032 - Where the streets have no name: Comparing, Rating and Happiness in the US
Presenting Author: Arie Kapteyn
Co-Author(s): Caroline Tassot; Maria Björnsdotter Dahlin
Discussant: Yaa A Antwi
2033 - Inequalities in subjective well-being among the 50+ in the United States and Europe:
is it money or health?
Presenting Author: France Weaver
Co-Author(s): Judite Goncalves
Discussant: Owen O'Donnell
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room10
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1428 - Economics of Long Term Care
Presiding: David Cutler
2008 - Does home care policy generosity impact hospitalization?
Presenting Author: Judite Goncalves
Co-Author(s): France Weaver
Discussant: Courtney Harold Van Houtven
2642 - Evaluating the Effects of Five-star Composite Ratings of Nursing Homes
Presenting Author: Marcelo Coca Perraillon
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: David Cutler
2751 - Does Home Equity Substitute Long-term Care Purchases?
Presenting Author: Richard Hirth
Co-Author(s): Kenneth Langa; Helen Levy; Yubraj Acharya
Discussant: Amy Finkelstein
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room5
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1446 - Economics of the Pharmaceutical Industry
Presiding:
1765 - Off-Label Use of Pharmaceuticals: Trends and Drivers
Presenting Author: W. David Bradford
Co-Author(s): Jonathan W. Williams; John L. Turner
Discussant: Guy David
2609 - Effects of DTC Advertising on R&D Effort
Presenting Author: Eric Keuffel
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Salama Freed
2727 - The Costs of Clinical Trials
Presenting Author: Bradley Herring
Co-Author(s): Jason Matheny, PhD
Discussant: Nathan Dong
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room1
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1425 - Economics, Alcohol, and Outcomes
Presiding:
2644 - Does Exposure to Alcohol Advertising Cause People to Drink and Drink and Drive?
Presenting Author: Dean Lillard
Co-Author(s): Hua Zan
Discussant: Christopher Carpenter
2663 - Alcohol and Mortality: Insights from South Dakota's 24/7 Sobriety Project
Presenting Author: Beau Kilmer
Co-Author(s): Nancy Nicosia; Beau Kilmer; Paul Heaton; Gregory Midgette
Discussant: Peter Eibich
2624 - Heavy Drinking, Health and Mental Wellbeing
Presenting Author: Colin P Green
Co-Author(s): Maria Navarro; Bruce P. Hollingsworth
Discussant: Timothy Classen
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room9
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1418 - Education and Health
Presiding: Benjamin Cowan
2482 - Does Increased Education Lower Health Care Spending? Findings for Self-Managed
Health Conditions
Presenting Author: Minkyoung Yoo
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Shirlee Lichtman-Sadot
2779 - The correlation between education and health
Presenting Author: Anna Choi
Co-Author(s): Anna Choi; John Cawley
Discussant: Benjamin Cowan
2933 - Does Increasing Schooling Improve Later Health Habits? Evidence from the School
Reforms in Australia
Presenting Author: Jinhu Li
Co-Author(s): Nattavudh Powdthavee
Discussant: Hans Van Kippersluis
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room6
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1344 - Estimating the Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Labor and Insurance Markets
Presiding: Steve Parente
2972 - Will Americans Keep the Consumer Driven Health Plans they had following Health
Reform in 2014
Presenting Author: Bianca K. Frogner
Co-Author(s): Steve Parente
Discussant: Eric Barette
2974 - Estimating the Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Labor and Insurance Markets
Presenting Author: Steve Parente
Co-Author(s): Bryan Dowd; Roger Feldman; Joanne Spetz
Discussant: Jeffrey S McCullough
2975 - Lower Premiums? Higher Claims? Rebates or Not?: Medium Term Insurer
Responses to Medical Loss Ratio Regulation
Presenting Author: Pinar Karaca-Mandic
Co-Author(s): Kosali Simon; Jean Abraham; Roger Feldman
Discussant: Lindsay Bockstedt
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room11
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1409 - Financial and Non-Financial Risks of Public Policies
Presiding:
1721 - Unintended Effects of the CMS Final Rule on Transplantation: A Patient Welfare
Question
Presenting Author: Marietou Ouayogode
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Marietou Ouayogode
2346 - Out-of-Pocket Spending in the Marketplaces for Adults in States Not Expanding
Medicaid
Presenting Author: Steven C. Hill
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Christine Eibner
2686 - The Assessment of Medical Expenditure Risk and the Impact of an Insurance
Benefit: Implications for the Development of a Measure of Medical Care Economic Risk
Presenting Author: Sarah Meier
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Nicole Hair
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room15
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1321 - Health Economics and Decision Analysis at the US Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention II
Presiding: Adam Skelton
2785 - Infant Immunization Coverage in the SCHIP Era: An Instrumental Variables
Approach
Presenting Author: Jing Xu
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Joseph Njau
2786 - What Drives the Purchase Cost of Childhood Vaccines? - Determinants of
Childhood Vaccine Prices in the US Public Sector
Presenting Author: Weiwei Chen
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Jing Xu
2787 - Economic Benefits of Vaccines in Low-Income Countries and Transitional
Economies: A Systematic Review
Presenting Author: Joseph Njau
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Weiwei Chen
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room13
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1369 - Macroeconomics and Development
Presiding:
1937 - Recessions and Health Revisited: New Findings for Working-Age Adults
Presenting Author: Benjamin Crost
Co-Author(s): Andrew Friedson
Discussant: Irina B Grafova
2290 - Defining Disease Episodes and the Effects on the Components of Expenditure
Growth
Presenting Author: Abe Dunn
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Jessica Banthin
2955 - Counter-Cyclical Nursing Home Quality
Presenting Author: Sean S Huang
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Haizhen Lin
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room3
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1443 - Medication Utilization
Presiding:
1694 - Demand Elasticities for Pharmaceuticals: Evidence from a Payment Update in
Medicare Part D
Presenting Author: Colleen M Carey
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Vicki Fung
2863 - Single-source vs. off-patent drugs: What is the role of physician preferences?
Presenting Author: Niels Skipper
Co-Author(s): Mariana Carrera
Discussant: Erin Johnson
1994 - Differential Responses of Minorities to the Medicare Part D Coverage Gap
Presenting Author: Lauren M Scarpati
Co-Author(s): Lauren M Scarpati; Geoffrey Joyce; Julie Zissimopoulos
Discussant: Mary C. Schroeder
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room4
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1109 - New Evidence on Geographic Variations in Health Care
Presiding: Joseph P. Newhouse
1599 - Geographic Variation in Medical Care Spending
Presenting Author: Joseph P. Newhouse
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Carrie H Colla
1568 - Do Commercial Health Care Prices Influence Medicare Spending?
Presenting Author: John Romley
Co-Author(s): Dana Goldman; Erin Trish
Discussant: Josh Graff Zivin
1569 - Geographic Variation in Quality of Care for Commercially Insured Patients
Presenting Author: Michael Richard McKellar
Co-Author(s): Michael Chernew
Discussant: Laurence Baker
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room14
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1110 - Physician Consolidation and Integration
Presiding: Thomas Buchmueller
2670 - Hospital-Physician Integration and Health Care Spending
Presenting Author: Laurence Baker
Co-Author(s): Kate Bundorf; Anne Beeson Royalty
Discussant: Richard Lindrooth
2672 - Hospital Employment of Physicians: Changing Referral Patterns?
Presenting Author: Caroline S Carlin
Co-Author(s): Roger Feldman; Bryan Dowd
Discussant: Yaa A Antwi
2715 - A Case Study of Physician Re-Organization
Presenting Author: Alison Cuellar
Co-Author(s): Thomas Buchmueller; Peter Kongstvedt
Discussant: William D. White
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room7
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1289 - Provider Response to Medicare and Medicaid Policy
Presiding: Sarah Miller
2583 - Provider Mix, Regulatory Hurdles, and New Patient Primary Care Visit Availability
Presenting Author: Michael R Richards
Co-Author(s): Daniel Polsky
Discussant: Helen Levy
2556 - How Do Providers Respond to Public Health Insurance Expansions? Evidence from
Medicaid Adult Dental Benefits
Presenting Author: Sarah Miller
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Craig Garthwaite
2558 - Physician Agency and Competition: Evidence from a Major Change to Medicare
Chemotherapy Reimbursement Policy
Presenting Author: Mireille Jacobson
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Nolan Miller
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room2
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1391 - The Economics of Hospitals
Presiding:
1538 - High-tech versus high-touch: Components of Hospital Costs and Charges Vary
Widely By Clinical Condition
Presenting Author: Paula Song
Co-Author(s): Kristin Reiter
Discussant: Merle Ederhof
2504 - A News Media Analysis of the Economic and Reputational Penalties of the Hospital
Readmissions Reduction Program
Presenting Author: Jose A Pagan
Co-Author(s): Melissa Winborn; Joyce Alencherril
Discussant: David Howard
2671 - Predicting Price-to-Charge Ratios for Community Hospitals in the United States
Presenting Author: Herbert Wong
Co-Author(s): Mark W. Smith; Zeynal Karaca
Discussant: Vivian Wu
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room8
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1319 - The effects of Medicare Part D: Evidence from administrative data
Presiding: Benjamin R Handel and Joachim Winter
2742 - Plan switching and inertia in Medicare Part D: Evidence from administrative data
Presenting Author: Joachim Winter
Co-Author(s): Amelie Wuppermann
Discussant: Benjamin R Handel
2765 - Substitutes in medical care? The impact of Medicare Part D on health care service
utilization and spending
Presenting Author: Geoffrey Joyce
Co-Author(s): Julie Zissimopoulos; Dana Goldman
Discussant: Amelie Wupperman
2745 - Prescription Drug Advertising and Drug Utilization: The Role of Medicare Part D
Presenting Author: Abby Alpert
Co-Author(s): Neeraj Sood
Discussant: Sean Nicholson
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room12
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1267 - What Do We Know About Early ACA Impacts? Assessing the Evidence from Nontraditional Data Sources
Presiding: Genevieve Kenney
2664 - Monitoring Coverage Changes in Early 2014: New Information from the Health
Reform Monitoring Survey
Presenting Author: Sharon K. Long
Co-Author(s): Dana Goin
Discussant: John Graves
2666 - Tracking early ACA coverage expansion impacts in pharmacy transaction data
Presenting Author: Andrew Mulcahy
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Daniel Polsky
2726 - The Gallup-Healthways Daily Tracking Survey: A New Data Source for Assessing
the Impacts of Health Reform
Presenting Author: Benjamin D Sommers
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Sandra Decker
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room5
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1340 - Current Issues in Pharmaceutical Markets
Presiding: Leemore Dafny
2947 - How do Prescription Drug Copayment Coupons Affect Generic Utilization and
Branded Drug Pricing?
Presenting Author: Leemore Dafny
Co-Author(s): Christopher Ody; David Schmidt
Discussant: Sean Nicholson
2994 - Co-payment Coupons for Prescription Drugs: A Framework for Assessing Economic
Efficiency
Presenting Author: Richard Manning
Co-Author(s): Chris Stomberg
Discussant: Dan Kessler
2950 - The Effect of Regulation and Competition on Drug Supply
Presenting Author: David B. Ridley
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Rena Conti
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room3
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1365 - Econometric Frontiers of Treatment Effect Estimation
Presiding: David Frisvold
2406 - Robustness and Interpretability of Treatment Effect Estimates Generated by
Nonlinear 2SRI in Alternative Models of Treatment Effect Heterogeneity and Choice
Presenting Author: Cole G. G Chapman
Co-Author(s): Cole G. G Chapman; John M. Brooks
Discussant: Padmaja Ayyagari
2507 - Specification in difference-in-differences models
Presenting Author: Andrew M Ryan
Co-Author(s): James F. Burgess; Justin B Dimick
Discussant: Jason M Hockenberry
3021 - Are Difference in Difference and Interrupted Time Series Methods An Effective
Way to Study The Causal Effects of Changes in Health Insurance Plans? Evidence From
Within Study Comparisons
Presenting Author: Coady Wing
Co-Author(s): Vivian Wong; Kevin McConeghy
Discussant: David Frisvold
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room10
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1385 - Economics of Early Childhood Interventions
Presiding:
1860 - Understanding Returns to Birthweight
Presenting Author: Shiko Maruyama
Co-Author(s): Eskil Heinesen
Discussant: Heather Royer
1872 - The Effect of Breakfast in the Classroom on Obesity and Academic Performance:
Evidence from New York City
Presenting Author: Sean P Corcoran
Co-Author(s): Brian Elbel; Amy Ellen Schwartz; Elizabeth M Debraggio
Discussant: Sean P Corcoran
1907 - Time of birth, breast milk feeding and health outcomes in the neonatal intensive care
unit
Presenting Author: Sarah M Martin-Anderson
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Ciaran Phibbs
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room13
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1081 - Economics of Mental Health
Presiding: Johanna Catherine Maclean
1460 - Leaving school in an economic downturn and self-esteem across early and middle
adulthood
Presenting Author: Johanna Catherine Maclean
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Michael Grossman
1461 - Episodes of Mental Health Treatment Among a Nationally Representative Sample of
Children and Adolescents
Presenting Author: Brendan Saloner
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Andrew Barnes
1462 - Maternal Depression and Urban Homelessness
Presenting Author: Hope Corman
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Benjamin Cook
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room2
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1435 - Hospital Markets
Presiding:
1524 - The Financial Impact of Hospital Closings on Surrounding Hospitals
Presenting Author: Ashley Hodgson
Co-Author(s): Paul Roback; Andrew Hartman; Erin Kelly; Yujie Li
Discussant: Ashley Hodgson
1260 - Estimating hospital choices when the true choice set is unknown
Presenting Author: Andrew E. Sfekas
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Samuel Kleiner
1809 - Selective Assignments of Disadvantaged Patients to Low Quality Hospitals and
Disparities in the Quality of Medical Care
Presenting Author: Daisuke Goto
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Andrew Wilcock
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room15
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1249 - Incentives and Choices
Presiding: Osea Giuntella
2365 - Digitizing Doctor Demand: The Impact of Online Reviews on Doctor Choice
Presenting Author: Sonal Vats
Co-Author(s): Michael Luca
Discussant: Osea Giuntella
2366 - “Loss aversion and altruism in repeated blood donation”
Presenting Author: Sara R Machado
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Abigail Friedman
2939 - The Relationship Between Costs and Quality in Veterans Health Administration
Nursing Homes
Presenting Author: James F. Burgess
Co-Author(s): Michael Shwartz; Kelly Stolzmann; Erol A. Pekoz; Cindy L. Christiansen; Dan
Berlowitz
Discussant: Gustavo Mery
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room6
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1314 - New evidence on consumer-directed health plans and health care utilization
Presiding: Peter Huckfeldt
2922 - The Long Term Effects of Consumer-Directed Health Plans (CDHPs) on Use of
Preventive Care
Presenting Author: Neeraj Sood
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Srikanth Kadiyala
2723 - Patient Responses to Incentives in Consumer-Directed Health Plans: Evidence from
Pharmaceuticals
Presenting Author: Peter Huckfeldt
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Julie Donohue
2873 - The Long Term Effects of Consumer-Directed Health Plans on Health Care Costs
Presenting Author: Amelia M Haviland
Co-Author(s): Matthew Eisenberg; Peter Huckfeldt; Ateev Mehrotra; Neeraj Sood
Discussant: Kate Bundorf
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room9
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1402 - Public Policy and Physician Payment
Presiding: Mary C. Schroeder
1404 - The Impact of Health Care Reform on Physician Payments: Evidence from
Presenting Author: Adam Shapiro
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Amanda Kowalski
1928 - The Effect of Mandated Health Insurance on Physician Reimbursement: Evidence
for the Massachusetts Health Reform
Presenting Author: Allison Marier
Co-Author(s): Allison Marier; Andrew Friedson
Discussant: John M. Brooks
2709 - The Effect of Medicaid Reimbursement Generosity on Physician Access: Diagnosing
of Asthma in Children
Presenting Author: Mary C. Schroeder
Co-Author(s): Amber Goedken; Matthew Nattinger; John M. Brooks
Discussant: Youjin Hahn
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room11
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1440 - Regulations, Private Health Insurance, and Outcomes
Presiding: H. E. Frech
2682 - Do State Non-Group Health Market Regulations Affect Early Retirement?
Presenting Author: LeeKai Lin
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Peter Eibich
1638 - Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection in Private Health Insurance
Presenting Author: David M Powell
Co-Author(s): Dana Goldman
Discussant: Mireille Jacobson
2828 - Medical Insurance and Uncertain Treatment Effect
Presenting Author: Gilad Sorek
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: H. E. Frech
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room14
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1086 - Risky Behaviors
Presiding: Michael T. French
1489 - Alcohol Use and Earnings Revisited: New Evidence from Twin Samples
Presenting Author: Andrew Barnes
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Lauren Hersch Nicholas
1503 - Tattoos and Labor Market Earnings: Is There a Link in the Ink?
Presenting Author: Michael T. French
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Dhaval Dave
1500 - The Self-Medication Hypothesis: Evidence from 9/11
Presenting Author: Michael F. Pesko
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Chad Cotti
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room1
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1426 - Smoking
Presiding:
1779 - Smoking initiation and cessation in India – a duration analysis
Presenting Author: Ce Shang
Co-Author(s): Prabhat Jha; Emmanuel Guindon; Pavel Dramski; Frank J Chaloupka
Discussant: Leigh A Leung
2625 - Health Information, Taxes and Life-Course Smoking: Evidence from Turkey
Presenting Author: Zeynep Onder
Co-Author(s): Dean Lillard
Discussant: Vahe Heboyan
2248 - An integrated life-cycle model of addiction, health capital and smoking: theoretical
and empirical implications
Presenting Author: Eugenio Zucchelli
Co-Author(s): Andrew M Jones; Audrey Laporte; Nigel Rice
Discussant: Michael Darden
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room7
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1035 - State Medicaid Initiatives to Improve Access and Contain Costs
Presiding: Laura Wherry
1198 - Evaluating the Impact of Statewide Implementation of Medicaid Managed Care in
Kentucky
Presenting Author: James Marton
Co-Author(s): Jeffery Talbert; Genevieve Kenney
Discussant: Thomas DeLeire
1197 - Using Parent-Reported Health Measures to Predict High-Need Pediatric Patients in
Public or Subsidized Health Insurance
Presenting Author: Lindsey Leininger
Co-Author(s): Laura Wherry; Brendan Saloner
Discussant: Laura Dague
1199 - Does Family Health Insurance Coverage Matter for Children's Health? Evidence
from Auto-Enrollment in Wisconsin
Presenting Author: Laura Dague
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Kosali Simon
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room12
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1441 - Studies in Dental Health Economics
Presiding: Kamyar Nasseh
1440 - Quantile and IV Regression Analysis of Dental Care Expenditures and Utilization
Presenting Author: Simon Condliffe
Co-Author(s): Charles Link
Discussant: Paul Solano
2181 - Dental Health Dental Insurance and the Use of Dental Services
Presenting Author: Anthony Harris
Co-Author(s): Preety Srivastava
Discussant: Kamyar Nasseh
1254 - Is Dental Care Coverage Worth the Price? Evidence from Medicaid
Presenting Author: Sasha Brodsky
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Joanne Spetz
2662 - Does a periodontal dental treatment after diagnosis of diabetes lead to lower
healthcare costs and utilization in later years among a commercially insured population?
Presenting Author: Kamyar Nasseh
Co-Author(s): Marko Vujicic
Discussant: Anthony T. Lo Sasso
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room8
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1123 - The Effect of the Medicare Program on Private Insurers
Presiding: Amanda Starc
1634 - Government Contract Generosity and Its Effect on Firm Behavior: Evidence from
the Medicare Advantage Program
Presenting Author: Amanda Starc
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Joshua Gottleib
2096 - Bargaining in the Shadow of a Giant: Medicare's Influence on Private Payment
Systems
Presenting Author: Jeffrey P Clemens
Co-Author(s): Joshua D Gottlieb
Discussant: Matt Lewis
2411 - Incentives and Strategic Formulary Design in Stand-Alone and Medicare Advantage
Prescription Drug Plans
Presenting Author: Kurt Lavetti
Co-Author(s): Kosali Simon
Discussant: Ashley Swanson
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room4
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
1177 - Vital Trends in U.S. Health and Health Care
Presiding: John Romley
1914 - Are the Rich Getting Healthier than the Poor? Trends in Quality-Adjusted Life
Expectancy by Socioeconomic Status in the U.S. from 2000 to 2010
Presenting Author: David Cutler
Co-Author(s): Lisa F Berkman; Susan T Stewart
Discussant: Jay Bhattacharya
1916 - Health Expenditures and Health Outcomes: A Longitudinal Analysis in the
Medicare Population
Presenting Author: Carrie H Colla
Co-Author(s): Amitabh Chandra; Jonathan Skinner
Discussant: Daniel Polsky
1913 - Is the Cost Disease in U.S. Hospitals a Misdiagnosis?
Presenting Author: John Romley
Co-Author(s): Dana Goldman; Neeraj Sood
Discussant: Melinda B. Buntin
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room15
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1222 - Behavioral Economics Interventions to Reduce Antibiotic Overprescribing
Presiding: Joel Hay
2287 - Nudging guideline uptake: A randomized trial of physician public commitments
Presenting Author: Jason Doctor
Co-Author(s): Daniella Meeker; Tara Knight; Mark W Friedberg; Jeffrey A Linder; Noah J
Goldstein; Craig R Fox; Alan Rothfeld; Guillermo Diaz
Discussant: Kevin G. Volpp
2285 - Provider Preferences for Interventions for Reducing Inappropriate Antibiotic
Prescribing
Presenting Author: Joel Hay
Co-Author(s): Greg Strylewicz; Alan Rothfeld; Jason Doctor
Discussant: Ning Gu
2286 - A Behavioral Economics Multi-site Randomized Trial to Reduce Provider Antibiotic
Overprescribing
Presenting Author: Jason Doctor
Co-Author(s): Daniella Meeker; Craig R Fox; Noah J Goldstein; Joel Hay; Stephen D Persell;
Mark W Friedberg; Jeffrey A Linder
Discussant: Kevin G. Volpp
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room4
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1257 - Developing New Risk Adjustment Models for Adjusting Costs and Performance
Measures
Presiding: Timothy Layton
2389 - Good-enough risk adjustment models for physician payment and performance
assessment
Presenting Author: Randall P Ellis
Co-Author(s): Arlene Ash; Juan Fernandez; Maria Trottmann
Discussant: Michael Geruso
2390 - How effective is risk adjustment under alternate time periods?
Presenting Author: Kimberley H Geissler
Co-Author(s): Keith Ericson; Benjamin Lubin
Discussant: John Graves
2632 - Association of Diagnostic Coding with Trends in Acute Myocardial Infarction
Incidence and Mortality Among Medicare Beneficiaries, 1999 – 2008
Presenting Author: Naomi Sacks
Co-Author(s): Kaushik Ghosh; Arlene Ash; Allison Rosen
Discussant: Rachel Werner
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room2
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1152 - Drunk Driving and Public Policy
Presiding: Richard A Dunn
1769 - Technological improvement and the externality to drunk-driving
Presenting Author: Richard A Dunn
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Catherine Maclean
1773 - Does the Minimum Drinking Age Reduce or Delay Traffic Mortality? Evidence from
a Cohort-Based Analysis
Presenting Author: Benjamin Crost
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Timothy Classen
3025 - Fast times during spring breaks: Are traffic fatalities another consequence?
Presenting Author: Gulcin Gumus
Co-Author(s): Michael T. French
Discussant: Linnea A Polgreen
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room10
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1193 - Economic Factors Affecting Diet and Obesity
Presiding: John Cawley
2079 - Does leaving school in an economic downturn persistently affect body weight?
Evidence from panel data
Presenting Author: Catherine Maclean
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Olga Yakusheva
2080 - Marijuana Laws and Body Weight: New Evidence on Diet, Exercise, and BMI
Presenting Author: Joseph Sabia
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Rosalie Liccardo Pacula
2083 - Nudging Nutrition: How the Framing of Relative Price Changes as Taxes or
Subsidies Affects Grocery Purchases in a Seven-Month Field Study
Presenting Author: John Cawley
Co-Author(s): Brian Wansink; David Just; Andrew Hanks
Discussant: Nathan Tefft
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room1
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1427 - Economics of Risky Behaviors
Presiding:
2189 - The Role of Information in the Market for Opioid Pain Relievers: An Analysis of
Prescription Monitoring Programs
Presenting Author: Sharmini Radakrishnan
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Andrew Mulcahy
2375 - Adverse Events and Risky Behaviors: Evidence from Adolescents
Presenting Author: Abigail Friedman
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Margo Bergman
2524 - The Effects of Merit-Based Financial Aid on Drinking in College
Presenting Author: Benjamin Cowan
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Angela Fertig
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room11
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1046 - Effects of Public Programs on Family Food Insecurity
Presiding: Hope Corman
1328 - Understanding the Relationship between the School Breakfast Program and Food
Insecurity
Presenting Author: David Frisvold
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Sarah Hamersma
1226 - The Effect of Safety Net Programs on Food Insecurity
Presenting Author: Tara Watson
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Elizabeth Powers
1227 - Family Health Shocks and Food Insecurity: The Role of Food Assistance Programs
Presenting Author: Hope Corman
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Craig Gundersen
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room3
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1354 - Exploring Key Trends in Hospital Pricing Using Data From the Health Care Cost
Institute
Presiding: Zack Cooper
3013 - How Does Competition Impact Prices for Dialysis Services? A Case Study of the US
Dialysis Industry
Presenting Author: Leemore Dafny
Co-Author(s): David Cutler; Christopher Ody
Discussant: Dan Kessler
3012 - Do Higher Priced Hospitals Deliver Higher Quality Care?
Presenting Author: Zack Cooper
Co-Author(s): Martin Gaynor; John Van Reenen
Discussant: Jason Abaluck
3014 - Comparing the Medical Productivity of Providers Treating Elderly Patients with
and without Mental Illness
Presenting Author: Steve Parente
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Rena Conti
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room5
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1079 - Financing Long-Term Care
Presiding: Gopi S Goda
1449 - Costs and Benefits of In-Kind Transfers: The Case of Medicaid Home Care Benefits
Presenting Author: Lee Lockwood
Co-Author(s): Ethan MJ Lieber
Discussant: Norma Coe
1450 - Family Structure and Long-Term Care Insurance Purchase
Presenting Author: Courtney Harold Van Houtven
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Kathleen McGarry
1451 - Closed for Business: Counterparty Risk and Insurance Purchase Decisions
Presenting Author: Gopi S Goda
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: R. Tamara Konetzka
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room7
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1329 - Health Insurance, Utilization and Outcomes
Presiding: Padmaja Ayyagari
2855 - Hospital payment and volume of care
Presenting Author: Martin Salm
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Shin-Yi Chou
2857 - Do Young Adults Exhibit Moral Hazard Behavior? Evidence from the ACA
Dependent Coverage Mandate
Presenting Author: Dan M Shane
Co-Author(s): Padmaja Ayyagari; George L Wehby
Discussant: Yaa A Antwi
2859 - The Impact of Medicare Part D Coverage on Mental Health
Presenting Author: Padmaja Ayyagari
Co-Author(s): Dan M Shane
Discussant: Dhaval Dave
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room9
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1296 - Maternal and Infant Health Policies
Presiding: Tami Gurley-Calvez
2593 - Breastfeeding in the Workplace Polices and Maternal Employment Decisions
Presenting Author: Lindsey Bullinger
Co-Author(s): Tami Gurley-Calvez
Discussant: Kandice Kapinos
2588 - Do Insurers Risk-Select Against Each Other? Evidence from Medicaid and
Implications for Health Reform
Presenting Author: Maya Rossin-Slater
Co-Author(s): Katherine Meckel; Ilyana Kuziemko
Discussant: Thomas Selden
2592 - Randomized Controlled Trial of a Telephone Peer Counseling Program to Support
Breastfeeding among WIC Participants
Presenting Author: Onur O Altindag
Co-Author(s): Theodore Joyce
Discussant: Alice Chen
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room8
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1338 - Medicare Advantage: New methods, new models, new policy implications
Presiding: Melinda B. Buntin
2930 - Premium Increases and the Concentration of the Medicare Advantage Market: A
Finite Mixture Modeling Approach
Presenting Author: Gretchen Jacobson
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Chapin White
2925 - Premium Sensitivity and Persistence of Health Plan Choice Among the Elderly
Presenting Author: Paul Jacobs
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Thomas Buchmueller
2926 - Effects of Medicare Advantage Plan Rebates on Enrollment and Beneficiary Health
Presenting Author: Lauren Hersch Nicholas
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Richard Frank
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room6
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1313 - Price Shopping for Healthcare
Presiding: Neeraj Sood
2747 - Price Shopping in Consumer Directed Health Plans
Presenting Author: Neeraj Sood
Co-Author(s): Zachary Wagner; Ateev Mehrotra; Amelia M Haviland; Peter Huckfeldt
Discussant: Michael Chernew
2752 - The Impact of a Novel Price Transparency Platform on Prices of Laboratory
Procedures
Presenting Author: Christopher Whaley
Co-Author(s): Sophie Pinkard; Jennifer Schneider Chafen; Neeraj Sood
Discussant: Jay Bhattacharya
2756 - Shopping for a Physician: Is Per Visit Costs Useful Information?
Presenting Author: Ateev Mehrotra
Co-Author(s): Neeraj Sood; Amelia M Haviland; Peter Huckfeldt
Discussant: Anna Sinaiko
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room14
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1384 - Regulation and Child Health Outcomes
Presiding:
1892 - The Effects of Clean-Milk Regulations on Urban Infant Mortality, 1900-1910
Presenting Author: Sarah A G Komisarow
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Linda Dynan
2400 - Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Sulfure Dioxide on Infant Birth Weight: Evidence
from a Pennsylvania Plant Located Upwind of New Jersey
Presenting Author: Rhea Bhatta
Co-Author(s): Muzhe Yang; Shin-Yi Chou; Cheng-I Hsieh
Discussant: Rahi Abouk
2542 - Air Pollution and Children's Cognitive and Health Outcomes
Presenting Author: Victoria Shier
Co-Author(s): Ashlesha Datar; Nancy Nicosia
Discussant: Michael T Mathes
Tuesday, June 24, 2014, Room13
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1312 - Understanding the effects of the Affordable Care Act on the use of hospital inpatient
and emergency department services
Presiding: Herbert Wong
2707 - Establishing benchmarks to understand hospital utilization following Medicaid
expansion under the Affordable Care Act
Presenting Author: Herbert Wong
Co-Author(s): Gary Pickens; Ginger Carls; Zeynal Karaca; Audrey Weiss
Discussant: Vivian Wu
2713 - The Effect of Massachusetts Health Care Reform on Hospital Inpatient Use
Presenting Author: William Marder
Co-Author(s): Greg Lenhart; Zeynal Karaca; Lauren Wier; Herbert Wong
Discussant:
2728 - Projecting the Use of Inpatient and Emergency Department Services After the
Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion
Presenting Author: Zeynal Karaca
Co-Author(s): Gary Pickens; Ginger Carls; Christine Eibner; Audrey Weiss; Herbert Wong
Discussant: Benjamin Cook
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room14
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1245 - Comparing Outcomes Across Hospitals: Measurement, Selection, and Access
Presiding: Kevin Pflum
2352 - Competition and Quality Choice in Hospital Markets
Presenting Author: Kevin Pflum
Co-Author(s): Matthew S Lewis
Discussant: Ryan Mutter
2354 - Do Medicare Advantage Enrollees Visit High-Cost Hospitals?
Presenting Author: Zeynal Karaca
Co-Author(s): Herbert Wong; Jeffrey Stensland
Discussant: Richard Hofler
2355 - Benchmarking Patient Safety and Quality in U.S. Hospitals: The Stochastic Frontier
Approach
Presenting Author: Richard Hofler
Co-Author(s): Lynn Unruh
Discussant: Matthew S Lewis
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room10
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1410 - Cost-Effectiveness Studies for Pharmaceuticals
Presiding:
1532 - The Cost-Effectiveness of PIMA Alere CD4 Analyser for CD4 Counting in HIV
Patients
Presenting Author: Elena Pizzo
Co-Author(s): Nadia Pillai; Marisa Miraldo; Clifford B Jones; Anna Obi; Nicola Mackie;
Angela Bailey
Discussant: Patrick Richard
1644 - Cost-effectiveness comparison of Denosumab and Zoledronic Acid in the treatment
of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis
Presenting Author: Joel Hay
Co-Author(s): Yuchen Ding
Discussant: Shraddha Chaugule
2397 - Cost-effectiveness analysis of abiraterone and sipuleucel-T in metastatic castrationresistant prostate cancer
Presenting Author: Cynthia Gong
Co-Author(s): Joel Hay
Discussant: Cynthia Gong
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room15
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1378 - Economics of Physician Prescribing Behavior
Presiding:
1704 - Geographic and Hospital Variations by Payer Type in New Medical Technology
Use: The Case of Drug Eluting Stents
Presenting Author: Esra Eren Bayindir
Co-Author(s): Pinar Karaca-Mandic
Discussant: Ellen R Meara
1788 - Diffusion of Drug-Eluting Stents in PTCA Procedures
Presenting Author: Yang Yu
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Andrew Epstein
1960 - The Effect on Physician's Prescribing from Prescribing Tendencies of Physicians in
their Patient-Sharing Network
Presenting Author: Cole G. G Chapman
Co-Author(s): Cole G. G Chapman; Stephen Welch; John M. Brooks; Mary C. Schroeder
Discussant: Aaron C Miller
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room12
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1376 - Effects of Interventions to Improve Mental Health Treatment
Presiding:
2109 - The Zero Suicide Initiative: Applying a Systems Science and Stock & Flow Mapping
Process to Suicide Prevention
Presenting Author: Charles Lunati
Co-Author(s): Jessica Graziano
Discussant: Ramya Sundararaman
2383 - First-month Intensity of Collaborative Care and Patient Depression Outcomes
Presenting Author: Yuhua Bao
Co-Author(s): Chunshan Li; Jurgen Unutzer
Discussant: Susan L Ettner
2606 - The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) Evaluation Study:
Impact on Mental Health Services Access, Utilization and Expenditures
Presenting Author: Susan L Ettner
Co-Author(s): Francisca Azocar; Rosalie Liccardo Pacula; Michael Ong; Jessica Harwood;
Sarah Friedman; Kenneth Wells; Amber Thalmayer
Discussant: Yuhua Bao
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room11
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1064 - Empirical Results for Current Health Policy: Parental Involvement Laws, CostEffectiveness Analysis, and Prescription of Psychotropic Drugs for Youths
Presiding: Dhaval Dave
1423 - The Effect of Parental Involvement Laws on Birth Control and Mental Health: New
Evidence from the YRBS
Presenting Author: Joseph Sabia
Co-Author(s): D. Mark Anderson
Discussant: Michael T. French
1407 - Moral Hazard and Less Invasive Medical Treatment for Coronary Artery Disease:
An Analysis of Smoking in the National Health Interview Survey
Presenting Author: Jesse Margolis
Co-Author(s): Shin-Yi Chou; Jason M Hockenberry; Jesse Margolis; Michael Grossman
Discussant: Michael F. Pesko
1424 - Are Racial/Ethnic Differences in Youth Psychotropic Drug Use Due to Overuse of
Whites or Underuse of Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Presenting Author: Benjamin Cook
Co-Author(s): Nicholas Carson; Susan Busch; E. Nilay Kafali; Juan David Rueda; Sarah CoeOdess
Discussant: Michael Grossman
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room6
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1266 - Health Insurance Exchanges
Presiding: Wenjia Zhu
2425 - Health Insurance Coverage and Marriage Behavior: Is There Evidence of MarriageLock?
Presenting Author: Tianxu Chen
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Nicholas C della Cioppa
2426 - Selective Entry, Plan Designs and Premium Discrimination in the Health Insurance
Exchanges
Presenting Author: Ye Wang
Co-Author(s): Calvin Luscombe; Wenjia Zhu
Discussant: Emily R Gee
2427 - Labor Supply Response to Income Cutoffs of Health Insurance in the Massachusetts
Reform
Presenting Author: Julie Shi
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Chao Zhou
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room4
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1341 - Health Investment, Human Capital, and Economic Outcomes
Presiding: Jeremy Barofsky
2957 - Malaria Eradication and Economic Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence
from Uganda
Presenting Author: Jeremy Barofsky
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Jacob Bor
2959 - Do Health Investments Improve Education Outcomes? Evidence on the
Intergenerational Effects of HIV/AIDS Treatment
Presenting Author: Adrienne Lucas
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Manisha Shah
2960 - Impact of the Chiranjeevi Yojana Program on Institutional Deliveries and Birth
Outcomes in Gujarat, India: A Difference-in-Difference Analysis
Presenting Author: Manoj Mohanan
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Neeraj Sood
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room5
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1056 - Impact of Food Access on Nutrition
Presiding: Charles Courtemanche
1284 - The Impact of Food Deserts on SNAP Participation and Food Insufficiency among
the Elderly
Presenting Author: Katie Fitzpatrick
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Tara Watson
1282 - Children’s Food Insecurity, Food Preparation Time and the Effects of Food
Environment
Presenting Author: Oleksandr Zhylyevskyy
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: David Frisvold
1281 - Do Big Box Grocers Improve Food Security?
Presenting Author: Charles Courtemanche
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Hope Corman
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room9
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1331 - Incentivizing Healthy Behaviors
Presiding: Justin S. White
2885 - Conditional Economic Incentives to Reduce HIV Risks Among Male Sex Workers:
Results from a Randomized Pilot in Mexico
Presenting Author: Omar Galarraga
Co-Author(s): Sandra G Sosa-Rubí; Carlos J Conde; Luis Juarez-Figueroa; Andrea GonzálezRodríguez; Florentino Badial-Hernández; Sergio Bautista-Arredondo; Caroline Kuo; Don
Operario; Kenneth H. Mayer
Discussant: Damien de Walque
2882 - Small Incentives and Nudges for HIV Testing
Presenting Author: William H Dow
Co-Author(s): Juan Carlos Montoy
Discussant: Justin S. White
2884 - Does the Benefits Schedule of Cash Assistance Programs Affect Impulse Buying?
Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Peru
Presenting Author: Justin S. White
Co-Author(s): Sanjay Basu
Discussant: Omar Galarraga
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room2
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1169 - Is There Any Good News for Population Aging: A Global Perspective
Presiding: Chee-Ruey Hsieh
1863 - The Value of Delaying Alzheimer’s Disease Onset
Presenting Author: Dana Goldman
Co-Author(s): Julie Zissimopoulos
Discussant: Karen Eggleston
1869 - Adapting the Future Elderly Model to a Super-Aging Society: Implications for
Health, Health Spending, and Health Policy in Japan
Presenting Author: Brian K. Chen
Co-Author(s): Jay Bhattacharya; Karen Eggleston
Discussant: Ya-Ming Liu
1865 - Access to the Public Home Health Care and the Use of Health Care Services among
the Elderly: Are They Substitutes or Complements?
Presenting Author: Chee-Ruey Hsieh
Co-Author(s): Te-Fen Lo; Ya-Ming Liu
Discussant: Brian K. Chen
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room7
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1155 - Medicare Markets
Presiding: Michael Geruso
2098 - Plan Quality, the ACA, And Medicare Advantage Plan Offerings
Presenting Author: Christopher C Afendulis
Co-Author(s): Michael Chernew; Mary Beth Landrum
Discussant: Roger Feldman
2138 - Identifying Upcoding in Markets with Adverse Selection: An Application to
Medicare
Presenting Author: Michael Geruso
Co-Author(s): Timothy Layton
Discussant: Kate Bundorf
2139 - Externalities and Taxation of Supplemental Insurance: A Study of Medicare and
Medigap
Presenting Author: Marika Cabral
Co-Author(s): Neale Mahoney
Discussant: Jeffrey P Clemens
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room1
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1185 - Smoking Behavior in China
Presiding: Xi Chen and Jing Li
2071 - Relative Prices and Quality Substitution in the Chinese Cigarette Market: A
Discrete Choice Analysis Using ITC China Data
Presenting Author: Jing Li
Co-Author(s): Justin S. White; Geoffrey T Fong; Teh-wei Hu; Yuan Jiang
Discussant: Nengliang (Aaron) Yao
2024 - Weight Control Belief and Its Impact on Cigarette Consumption and Quit Attempts:
Findings from ITC Survey
Presenting Author: Ce Shang
Co-Author(s): Frank J Chaloupka; Geoffrey T Fong; Mary Thompson; Mohammad Siahpush;
William Ridgeway
Discussant: Lu Shi
2010 - Skewed Sex Ratios, Marriage Market Pressure and Parental Smoking Behavior in
Rural China
Presenting Author: Xi Chen
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Xuezheng Qin
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room13
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1116 - The Impact of Medical Technologies on Child and Family Outcomes
Presiding: N. Meltem Daysal
1585 - Returns to childbirth technologies: Evidence from preterm births
Presenting Author: N. Meltem Daysal
Co-Author(s): Mircea Trandafir; Reyn van Ewijk
Discussant: Michael Anderson
1586 - Cutting Fertility? The Causal Effects of Supply-Determined Cesarean Section on
Fertility
Presenting Author: Pilar Garcia-Gomez
Co-Author(s): Michael Hummer; Harald Mayr; Gerald Pruckner Pruckner
Discussant: Kosali Simon
1587 - Long-term Consequences of ADHD Medication Use for Children’s Outcomes
Presenting Author: Marianne Simonsen
Co-Author(s): Helena Skyt Nielsen; Soren Dalsgaard
Discussant: Mircea Trandafir
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room8
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1337 - The Interaction of Disability, Labor Force Participation, and Health Care Coverage
in the United States
Presiding: Frederic Selck
2901 - Source of Health Insurance Coverage and Employment Survival Among Newly
Disabled Workers: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
Presenting Author: Kathleen J Mullen
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Brandy Lipton
2902 - Trends in Access to Care Among Workers with Disabilities, 1997-2011, and
Implications for the ACA Reforms
Presenting Author: Jody Schimmel
Co-Author(s): Gina Livermore
Discussant: Pinar Karaca-Mandic
2903 - Who among the Working-age Disabled on Medicaid Transitions into Dualeligibility?
Presenting Author: Frederic Selck
Co-Author(s): Sandra Decker
Discussant: Gilbert Gimm
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room3
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1200 - THE ORGANIZATION OF PHYSICIAN PRACTICES
Presiding: Guy David
2112 - PATIENT PREFERENCES FOR PHYSICIAN GROUP PRACTICE
Presenting Author: Kate Bundorf
Co-Author(s): Laurence Baker
Discussant: Richard Lindrooth
2113 - THE IMPACT OF FINANCIAL INCENTIVES AND INFORMATION ON
REFERRALS FOR SPECIALTY CARE: EVIDENCE FROM A PATIENT-CENTERED
MEDICAL HOME PROGRAM
Presenting Author: Lorens Helmchen
Co-Author(s): Alison Cuellar; Gilbert Gimm
Discussant: Abby Alpert
2114 - ON THE DETERMINANTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF RETAINER-BASED
MEDICINE
Presenting Author: Guy David
Co-Author(s): Adam Leive; Ellerie Weber
Discussant: Jason M Hockenberry
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room1
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1117 - Adolescent Behavioral Health: Implications from Prescription Drug Abuse, Teenage
Fertility & Smoking Behavior
Presiding: Mir Ali
1650 - Non-Medical Use of Prescription Drugs and Mental Health among Adolescents
Presenting Author: Mir Ali
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Olga Yakusheva
1647 - Racial Disparities in Peer Effects on Teenage Fertility: Evidence from Using Peer
Miscarriages as a Natural Experiment
Presenting Author: Olga Yakusheva
Co-Author(s): Kandice Kapinos
Discussant: Silda Nikaj
1649 - Teacher Smoking, School Level Policies and Adolescent Smoking in Low- and
Middle-Income Countries
Presenting Author: Silda Nikaj
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Travis Minor
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room8
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1381 - Consumption Decisions, the Environment, and Obesity
Presiding: Frank A. Sloan
2240 - Effects of environmental factors on prevalence of obesity: A case study of
immigrants
Presenting Author: Bhagyashree Katare
Co-Author(s): Timothy Beatty
Discussant: Matthew C Harris
2381 - Food Choices, the Novelty Effect and Health: Evidence from the East German
Transition to Capitalism
Presenting Author: Nicolas R Ziebarth
Co-Author(s): Davide Dragone
Discussant: Frank A. Sloan
2815 - Soda Taxes and Purchases: Evidence from Household Scanner Data
Presenting Author: Roy Wada
Co-Author(s): Lisa Powell; Jamie Chriqui
Discussant: David Frisvold
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room4
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1142 - Health Care Provider Micro-Foundations
Presiding: Michael F. Pesko
1682 - Market Power and Provider Consolidation in Physician Markets
Presenting Author: Samuel Kleiner
Co-Author(s): William D. White; Sean M Lyons
Discussant: Ellerie Weber
1683 - Clocking Out: Shift Work in the Emergency Department
Presenting Author: David Chan
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Sean Nicholson
1684 - Impact of Home Health Nurse Communication with Physicians on Readmissions:
An Instrumental Variable Approach
Presenting Author: Michael F. Pesko
Co-Author(s): Matthew J. Press
Discussant: Elizabeth L. Munnich
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room12
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1323 - Health Economics and Decision Analysis at the US Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention III
Presiding: Adam Skelton
2806 - A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of the First Federally Funded U.S. Antismoking
National Media Campaign: Tips from Former Smokers
Presenting Author: Xin Xu
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Muhammad Jami Husain
2807 - Impact of the 2010 Affordable Care Act Extension of Health Insurance on
Vaccination Coverage Rates among Young Adults
Presenting Author: Jing Xu
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Xin Xu
2809 - Tobacco Free Economy: A SAM-based Multiplier Model to Track Transmission
Mechanism of Demand Driven Interventions in Bangladesh
Presenting Author: Muhammad Jami Husain
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Jing Xu
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room7
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1167 - Medicaid and Preventive Health Care
Presiding: Laura Wherry
1827 - Medicaid Expansions and Cancer Screening for Low-Income Women
Presenting Author: Lindsay M Sabik
Co-Author(s): Wafa Tarazi; Cathy Bradley
Discussant: Stacey McMorrow
1828 - Access to Primary Care for New Medicaid Patients and Preventive Care Utilization:
Evidence from an Audit Study
Presenting Author: Brendan Saloner
Co-Author(s): Daniel Polsky; Karin Rhodes; Ari B. Friedman
Discussant: John Graves
1926 - Persistent Health Effects of Early Life Medicaid Coverage
Presenting Author: Sarah Miller
Co-Author(s): Laura Wherry
Discussant: Andrew Goodman-Bacon
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room5
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1328 - Physician decision-making
Presiding: Jason M Hockenberry
2872 - Testing for “Schools of Thought” in Physician Practice Patterns
Presenting Author: Andrew Epstein
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Martin Andersen
2871 - Inertia in physicians practice patterns
Presenting Author: David Howard
Co-Author(s): Jason M Hockenberry
Discussant: Lauren Hersch Nicholas
2869 - Hospital and physician prices and treatment choice in labor and delivery
Presenting Author: Patricia K Foo
Co-Author(s): Robin Lee; Kyna Fong
Discussant: Jason M Hockenberry
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room15
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1284 - Prices, Pharmaceuticals and Prevention
Presiding: Chao Zhou
2488 - Does Cost-Sharing Affect Response to Signals? The Effect of Bad News on
Utilization of Prescription Drugs with Cost-Sharing
Presenting Author: Sonal Vats
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Seth Freedman
2489 - The Effect of Free Provision of Preventive Care under ACA on Prevention
Utilization: Evidence from Commercial Health Plans
Presenting Author: Wenjia Zhu
Co-Author(s): Ye Wang
Discussant: Don Kenkel
2490 - Myopic and Forward Looking Behavior in Branded Oral Anti-Diabetic Medication
Consumption: An Example from Part D
Presenting Author: Naomi Sacks
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Cameron Kaplan
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room6
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1254 - Protecting Against Adverse Selection in Competitive Health Insurance Markets
Presiding: Randall P Ellis
2377 - The Welfare Consequences of Risk Adjustment in Competitive Health Insurance
Markets
Presenting Author: Timothy Layton
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Martin Andersen
2385 - Efficiency in Plan Choice with Risk Adjustment and Premium Discrimination in
Health Insurance Exchanges
Presenting Author: Julie Shi
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Kimberley H H Geissler
2386 - Incorporating Taste Heterogeneity in Risk Adjustment Models
Presenting Author: Randall P Ellis
Co-Author(s): Wenjia Zhu
Discussant: David Cutler
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room10
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1166 - Racial Disparities in Early Child Health and Development: New Evidence on
Prevalence and Mechanisms
Presiding: George L Wehby
1819 - Sunshine, Temperature and Racial Disparity in Birth Outcomes -- Starting at
Conception
Presenting Author: Karen Conway
Co-Author(s): Jennifer Trudeau
Discussant: Dhaval Dave
1822 - Racial Differences in Early Cognitive and non-Cognitive Neurodevelopment in
Brazil
Presenting Author: Antonio Trujillo
Co-Author(s): George L Wehby
Discussant: Karen Conway
1824 - Racial Disparities in Birth Outcomes in Multiple South American Countries
Presenting Author: George L Wehby
Co-Author(s): Mariela Pawluk; Jorge Lopez-Camelo; Juan Gili; Fernando Poleta
Discussant: Jennifer Trudeau
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room13
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1302 - Regulations, Bans and Markets: Implications for Pharmaceuticals
Presiding: Pinar Karaca-Mandic
2589 - Association between characteristics of novel therapeutics and approval times by the
Food and Drug Administration
Presenting Author: Nilay Shah
Co-Author(s): Nicholas Downing; Jenerius A Aminawung; Harlan Krumholz; Joseph S Ross
Discussant: Steve Parente
2590 - A double-edged sword: Exhaust the ozone layer or ban ozone depleting asthma
drugs?
Presenting Author: Anupam Jena
Co-Author(s): Dana Goldman; Pinar Karaca-Mandic
Discussant: Michael Chernew
2591 - The Health Consequences of Direct-to-Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising
Presenting Author: Jeffrey S McCullough
Co-Author(s): Serena Ng
Discussant: Seth Seabury
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room3
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1203 - Social Consequences of Mental Illness and Access to Treatment
Presiding: Chad Meyerhoefer
2127 - The Effect of Depression on Labor Market Outcomes
Presenting Author: Lizhong Peng
Co-Author(s): Chad Meyerhoefer; Samuel H. Zuvekas
Discussant: Ezra Golberstein
2128 - Fighting Crime through Treatment: The Effect of Treatment for Substance Use
Disorder on Crime
Presenting Author: Janet R Cummings
Co-Author(s): Hefei Wen; Jason M Hockenberry
Discussant: Alison Cuellar
2129 - Neighborhood- and State-Level Characteristics Associated with Racial/Ethnic
Disparities in Mental Health Care
Presenting Author: Samuel H. Zuvekas
Co-Author(s): Benjamin Cook; Jie Chen
Discussant: Darrell J. Gaskin
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room2
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1339 - The economic causes and consequences of US drug shortages
Presiding: Rena Conti and Ernst Berndt
2928 - Specialty drug prices and utilization after loss of patent exclusivity, 2001-2007
Presenting Author: Rena Conti
Co-Author(s): Ernst Berndt
Discussant: Marta Wosinska
2934 - Drug Pricing, Reimbursement, and Drug Shortages
Presenting Author: Chris Stromberg
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Alison Goetsch
2936 - The impact of oncology drug shortages on patient welfare
Presenting Author: Abby Alpert
Co-Author(s): Mireille Jacobson
Discussant: Jennifer Malin
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room11
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1104 - Tracking the ACA
Presiding: Dana Goldman
2394 - How Prepared are Americans for the Affordable Care Act? Results from a Survey
of Health Insurance Literacy and Health Reform Knowledge
Presenting Author: Amelie Wuppermann
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Mireille Jacobson
2391 - Tracking Public and Individual Opinion of the Affordable Care Act
Presenting Author: Katherine Carman
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Mireille Jacobson
2393 - How capable are people of making health insurance choices? Evidence from a
hypothetical choice experiment
Presenting Author: Sebastian Bauhoff
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Mireille Jacobson
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room9
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1279 - Understanding Hospital Pricing
Presiding: Ellerie Weber
2468 - IMPACT OF MEDICARE’S HOSPITAL COMPARE QUALITY REPORTING
SYSTEM ON HOSPITAL PRICING
Presenting Author: Avi Dor
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Sandra Decker
2466 - High-Priced Hospitals: Bigger, Not Necessarily Better
Presenting Author: Chapin White
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Ethan MJ Lieber
2501 - The Relationship Between Hospital Prices & Charges: A Case Study of a Major
Commercial Carrier in Texas
Presenting Author: Ellerie Weber
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Pierre-Thomas Leger
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room14
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
1430 - Work and Health
Presiding:
1783 - How Does Actual Unemployment and the Perceived Risk of Joblessness Affect
Smoking Behavior? Gender and Intra-family Effects
Presenting Author: Irina B Grafova
Co-Author(s): Alan C. Monheit
Discussant:
2283 - The Consequences of Work and Family Demands and Resources on Employees'
Health and Health Behaviors
Presenting Author: Jean Abraham
Co-Author(s): Theresa Glomb; Tao Yang; Devasheesh Bhave; Erin Kelly
Discussant: Anne Beeson Royalty
2919 - (Re)Funding Health Care Spending: The Timing of EITC Refunds, Liquidity, and
Investment in Health
Presenting Author: Matthew J Niedzwiecki
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Reagan Baughman
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room10
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1411 - Advances in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Presiding: Frank A. Sloan
2420 - Cost-Effectiveness of Periodic Screening for Diabetes and Prediabetes
Presenting Author: Thomas J Hoerger
Co-Author(s): Wesley Crouse; Ping Zhang; Xiaohui Zhuo; Henry Kahn; Yileng S Cheng; Albert
Bethke; Edward Gregg
Discussant: Margo Bergman
2510 - The Cost-Effectiveness of Screening and Management Strategies for Familial
Hypercholesterolemia in the United States: A Markov Model Analysis
Presenting Author: Christina Chen
Co-Author(s): Joel Hay
Discussant:
2750 - Cost effectiveness analysis of TV campaign to promote flu shot among elderly
Presenting Author: Minchul Kim
Co-Author(s): Byung-Kwang Yoo
Discussant: Frank A. Sloan
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room12
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1412 - Economic Cost and Outcomes
Presiding:
1317 - Estimating the health burden and costs of patient safety events using English
hospital data
Presenting Author: Shaolin Wang
Co-Author(s): Katharina Hauck; Professor Peter C. Smith
Discussant: Bruce P. Hollingsworth
2615 - The Net Benefit of Adequate Prenatal Care: New Estimates Incorporating Outcomes
of both Infant and Mother
Presenting Author: Edward Coffield
Co-Author(s): Norman Waitzman
Discussant: Ciaran Phibbs
2970 - The Economic Cost of Selected Public Health Core Services in Colorado
Presenting Author: Adam Atherly
Co-Author(s): Sarah Lampe; Lisa VanRaemdonck; Melanie Mason
Discussant: Paul Brown
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room5
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1423 - Economics and Physician Care
Presiding: Thomas Koch
2456 - Healthcare Delivery, Costs and Quality: Evidence from Emergency Departments
Presenting Author: Pierre-Thomas Leger
Co-Author(s): Gautam Gowrisankaran; Keith Joiner
Discussant: Thomas Koch
2909 - The Impact of National Medical Liability Standards on Local Access to Physician
Services
Presenting Author: Seth Seabury
Co-Author(s): Michael Frakes; Matthew B Frank
Discussant: Michael Punzalan
2660 - The role of patient-physician communication on healthcare costs
Presenting Author: Zeynal Karaca
Co-Author(s): Herbert Wong
Discussant: Seth Seabury
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room11
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1133 - Economics of Behavioral Health and Crime
Presiding: Johanna Catherine Maclean
1652 - Deployments, Combat Exposure, and Crime
Presenting Author: Daniel Rees
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Chad Cotti
1654 - Treatment-based Approaches to Juvenile Crime: Effects on Education Outcomes
Presenting Author: Alison Cuellar
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Daniel Grossman
1655 - Seatbelt Use Following Stricter Drunk Driving Regulations
Presenting Author: Chad Cotti
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Asia Sikora
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room8
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1414 - Health and Labor Markets
Presiding:
1108 - Income Receipt and Mortality - Evidence from Swedish Public Sector Employees
Presenting Author: Elvira Andersson
Co-Author(s): Petter Lundborg; Johan Vikstrom
Discussant: Sofie Gustafsson
2608 - The Impact of the COBRA Premium Subsidy on the Duration of Unemployment:
Evidence from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
Presenting Author: Chun-Chieh Hu
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Hefei Wen
2705 - How do Smoker Protection Laws affect Labor Market Outcomes for Smokers?
Presenting Author: Joseph A. Benitez
Co-Author(s): Pavel Dramski
Discussant: W. David Bradford
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room6
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1433 - Insurance Coverage and Specific Disease Outcomes
Presiding:
2180 - Evaluating the Impact of Marijuana Use on Metabolic Syndrome Using Data from
the Continuous National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Presenting Author: Christin A Thompson
Co-Author(s): Joel Hay
Discussant: Laura Shinn
2264 - Effects of Health Insurance Coverage on Osteoporosis Medication Use
Presenting Author: Eric Sarpong
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Angela E Micah
2805 - Transplant Market Concentration and the Underutilization of Viable Donors:
Theory and Evidence from Liver Transplants
Presenting Author: Frederic Selck
Co-Author(s): Bradley Herring
Discussant: Preeti Zanwar
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room3
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1175 - Market Structure and Long-Term Care
Presiding: Courtney Harold Van Houtven
1893 - Influence of For-profit Agencies in the Home Health Market
Presenting Author: Edward Norton
Co-Author(s): Hyunjee Kim
Discussant: Guy David
1895 - Market Structure and Public Reporting: Evidence from Nursing Homes
Presenting Author: R. Tamara Konetzka
Co-Author(s): Daifeng He; David C. Grabowski
Discussant: Christina Marsh
1896 - Market Competition and the Quality of Nursing Home Care
Presenting Author: David C. Grabowski
Co-Author(s): Momotazur Rahman; Omar Galarraga; Vincent Mor
Discussant: Richard Hirth
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room7
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1431 - Medicare Policy
Presiding:
3006 - Calculating Disease-Based Medical Care Expenditure Indexes For Medicare
Beneficiaries: A Comparison of Method and Data Choices
Presenting Author: Anne E Hall
Co-Author(s): Tina Highfill
Discussant: Bianca K. Frogner
2408 - The Effects of Contract Cancellation on Health Insurance Generosity in Medicare
Advantage
Presenting Author: Daria M Pelech
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Anna Chorniy
2818 - Demand Response to the Medicare Advantage Star Rating System
Presenting Author: Samuel S Richardson
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Timothy Layton
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room14
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1281 - Physical Activity, Tobacco Policy and Obesity
Presiding: Jane E Ruseski
2464 - Do Smoking Bans Lead to Higher Levels of Obesity?
Presenting Author: Patrick Manzi
Co-Author(s): John Deskins
Discussant: Karen Conway
2461 - Physical Activity, Obesity and Present Bias
Presenting Author: Jane E Ruseski
Co-Author(s): Brad Humphreys; Li Zhou
Discussant: Patrick Manzi
2465 - A Closer Look at Tobacco Policy and Physical Activity
Presenting Author: Dhaval Dave
Co-Author(s): Gregory Colman; Karen S Conway
Discussant: Brad Humphreys
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room15
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1118 - Physician Incentives and Treatment Outcomes
Presiding: Amanda Starc
1610 - Physician vs. Patient Incentives in Prescription Drug Choice
Presenting Author: Michael J Dickstein
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Jeff Clemens
1625 - Betting on Your Health: How Uncertainty Affects Physician Choice
Presenting Author: Ashley Swanson
Co-Author(s): Jonathan Kolstad
Discussant: Kurt Lavetti
1637 - Teamwork and Moral Hazard among Emergency Department Physicians
Presenting Author: David Chan
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Kurt Lavetti
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room1
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1432 - Regulation and Risky Behavior
Presiding:
1642 - Do Medical Marijuana Laws Reduce Addictions and Deaths Related to Pain Killers?
Presenting Author: David M Powell
Co-Author(s): Rosalie Liccardo Pacula; Mireille Jacobson
Discussant: Christopher Ruhm
1862 - The Comprehensive Effects of Tobacco Control Policies on Tobacco-Related
Purchases
Presenting Author: Erik Nesson
Co-Author(s): Chad Cotti; Nathan Tefft
Discussant: Dhaval Dave
2357 - Buying cigarettes from Indian reservations: Magnitude of the discount
Presenting Author: Xin Xu
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Kai-Wen Cheng
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room2
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1294 - Regulations in Nursing
Presiding: Joanne Spetz
2570 - Nurse Practitioner Independence, Health Care Utilization, and Health Outcomes
Presenting Author: Victoria Udalova
Co-Author(s): Jeffrey Traczynski
Discussant: Kevin Stange
2571 - The effect of nurse practitioner prescriptive authority regulation on prescription
drug utilization among Medicare beneficiaries
Presenting Author: Ulrike Muench
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Sarah Miller
2572 - State Regulation and the Mobility of Nurses: An Examination of the Nurse
Licensure Compact
Presenting Author: Christina DePasquale
Co-Author(s): Kevin Stange
Discussant: Samuel Kleiner
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room13
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1187 - Social Security Programs in Rural China
Presiding: Xi Chen
2016 - Health Care utilization with China's New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme:
Update Evidence from the 2011-2012 China Health and Retirement Study
Presenting Author: Lu Shi
Co-Author(s): Donglan Zhang
Discussant: Jing Li
2019 - Does Health Insurance Lead to Ex-ante Moral Hazard? Evidence from China’s New
Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme
Presenting Author: Xuezheng Qin
Co-Author(s): Tianyi Lu
Discussant: Lizheng Shi
2020 - Household Decision Making under the New Rural Pension Scheme in China: A
Regression Discontinuity Design
Presenting Author: Xi Chen
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Zhuo Chen
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room4
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1022 - The Economics of Preventive Care
Presiding: Helen Levy
1164 - Information or Compensation? Understanding the Role of Information Technology
in Physician Response to Pay-For-Performance
Presenting Author: Benjamin R Handel
Co-Author(s): Jonathan Kolstad
Discussant: Richard Lindrooth
1165 - Effects of State Cervical Cancer Insurance Mandates on Pap Test Rates
Presenting Author: Marianne Bitler
Co-Author(s): Christopher Carpenter
Discussant: Sayeh Nikpay
1166 - The Impact of Health Care Reform's Preventive Services Requirement at the
University of Michigan
Presenting Author: Laura Wherry
Co-Author(s): Helen Levy; Thomas Buchmueller
Discussant: Kosali Simon
Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Room9
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1326 - What Can We Learn About the Likely Effects of Future Expansions from
Differences in Recent Medicaid Policies Across States and Within States Over Time?
Presiding: Sandra Decker
2829 - Have Past Medicaid Expansions Improved Access to Care for Low-Income Adults?
Presenting Author: Stacey McMorrow
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Lan Liang
2835 - Effect of Dental Insurance Coverage and Payment Rates to Dentists on Use of Dental
Care and Dental Health Outcomes Among Adults on Medicaid
Presenting Author: Brandy Lipton
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Seth Freedman
2837 - Prevalence, Awareness, and Control of Chronic Health Conditions Among LowIncome Adults with Medicaid Compared to Private Insurance
Presenting Author: Sandra Decker
Co-Author(s):
Discussant: Tianyan Hu