CHESG 2009

Program

All presentations will take place in Arts Lecture Hall 105, University of Waterloo

Tuesday, May 26th

8:00–8:45      Breakfast, Laurel Room, South Campus Hall

                       Registration to run concurrently in Arts Lecture Hall lobby.

Chair:  Robert Nuscheler, Augsburg University

9:00                Martin Gaynor -- Carnegie Mellon University - Sponsored by Analysis Group
Keynote Address, "The Functioning of Competition and Markets in the Health Care Sector"

10:00              Pierre Brochu, Catherine Deri-Armstrong and Louis-Philippe Morin -- University of Ottawa

                       “The ‘Trendiness’ of Sleep: An empirical analysis using Canadian time-use data”
Discussant:  Kate Rybczynski, University of Waterloo

10:45              Coffee Break

Chair: Brian Ferguson, University of Guelph

11:00              Mahmood Zarrabi -- University of Calgary
                       “Short and medium term effects of maternity leave on child outcomes: Evidence from the NLSCY”
Discussant:  Cynthia Perry, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care   

11:45              Paul Contoyannis and Jinhu Li -- McMaster University

“The evolution of health outcomes from childhood to adolescence”

Discussant:  Audrey Laporte, University of Toronto

12:30              Lunch, Laurel Room, South Campus Hall

Chair:  Chris Auld, University of Calgary

14:00              Marie Allard -- HEC-Montréal;  Marjolaine Jarry -- Western; and Pierre Thomas Léger -- HEC-Montréal

                       “A model of public and private care in the presence of private insurance”
Discussant:  Lutz-Alexander Busch, University of Waterloo

14:45            Jonathan Ketcham -- Arizona State University;  Pierre-Thomas Léger --  HEC-Montréal;  and Claudio Lucarelli -- Cornell University

                       “Standardization under Group Incentives”
                       Discussant:  Erin Strumpf, McGill University

15:30              Coffee Break

Chair:  Pierre-Thomas Léger, HEC-Montréal

15:45              Philip DeCicca -- McMaster University; and Justin Smith -- University of Manitoba
                       “Can higher cigarette taxes still improve birth outcomes? Evidence from recent large increases”
                       Discussant:  Mike Farnworth, University of New Brunswick

16:30              Charles A.M. de Bartolome -- University of Colorado, Boulder;  and Ian Irvine -- Concordia University

“The Economics of smoking bans”
Discussant:  Hideki Ariizumi, Wilfrid Laurier University

19:00              Dinner, Verses, 182 Victoria S. N., Kitchener

Wednesday, May 27th

8:00–8:45       Breakfast, Laurel Room, South Campus Hall

Chair:  Emmanuelle Piérard, University of Waterloo

9:00                 Dale Poirier -- University of California at Irvine

Keynote Address, “Why Health Economics Needs Bayesianism”

10:00                Kai Zhao -- University of Western Ontario

                       “Social Security and the Rise in Health Spending”
Discussant: John Burbidge, University of Waterloo

10:45              Coffee Break

Chair:  David Haardt, McMaster University

11:00              Matthew Lang -- University of California – Santa Barbara

                       “The Impact of Mental Health Insurance Laws on State Suicide Rates”
Discussant:  Paul Grootendorst, University of Toronto

11:45              Richard V. Burkhauser and John Cawley -- Cornell University; and Maximilian Schmeiser -- University of Wisconsin-Madison

"The Ability of Various Measures of Fatness to Predict Application for Disability Insurance”
Discussant:  Michel Grignon, McMaster University

12:30              B-B-Q Lunch, Environmental Studies Courtyard