Health Care.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - Conference news - Brief article

The NBER's Program on Health Care met in Cambridge on November 4. Director Jonathan Gruber of MIT and Research Associates Amy Finkelstein of MIT and Raj Chetty of Stanford University organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Vilsa Curto, Stanford University; Liran Einav, Jonathan D. Levin, and Jay Bhattacharya Stanford University and NBER; and Amy Finkelstein, "Health Care Spending and Utilization in Public and Private Medicare"

* Michael D. Frakes, Duke University and NBER, and Jonathan Gruber, "Defensive Medicine: Evidence from Military Immunity"

* Nathaniel Hendren, Harvard University and NBER, "Measuring Ex-Ante Welfare in Insurance Markets"

* Jason Abaluck, Yale University and NBER; Leila Agha, Dartmouth College and NBER; and David C...