Frontiers in Health Policy Research.

• Position: Conferences

The NBER's 13th Annual Conference on "Frontiers in Health Policy Research" took place in Washington on October 14, 2009. David M. Cutler, NBER and Harvard University; Alan M. Garber, NBER and Stanford University; and Dana Goldman and William B. Vogt, NBER and RAND, jointly organized the conference. The following papers were presented:

* Gabriel Aranovich, University of California, San Francisco; and Jay Bhattacharya, Alan M. Garber, and Thomas MaCurdy, Stanford University and NBER, "Coping with Chronic Disease: Chronic Disease and Disability in the Elderly American Population 1982-1999"

* Murray Aitken, IMS Health; Mark Trusheim, MIT; and Ernst R. Berndt, MIT and NBER, "Characterizing Markets for Biopharmaceutical Innovation: Do Biologics Differ from Small Molecules?"

* Gary Burtless, Brookings Institution, and Pavel Svaton, Toulouse, France, "Health Care, Health Insurance, and the Distribution of American Incomes"

* Kenneth Y. Chay, Brown University...