Health economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - National Bureau of Economic Research meetings on health economics - Conference news - Brief article

The NBER's Program on Health Economics met in Cambridge on April 11, 2014. Program Director Michael Grossman of the City University of New York's Graduate Center, and Research Associate Theodore Joyce of Baruch College, chose these papers to discuss:

* Tom Chang, University of Southern California; Joshua Graff Zivin, University of California, San Diego and NBER; and Tal Gross and Matthew Neidell, Columbia University and NBER, "Particulate Pollution and the Productivity of Pear Packers" (NBER Working Paper No. 19944)

* Darius Lakdawalla, University of Southern California and NBER; Anup Malani, University of Chicago and NBER; and Julian Reif, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "The Insurance Value of Medical Innovation"

* Jason Hockenberry, Emory University and NBER; Jesse Margolis, City University of New York; Shin-Yi Chou, Lehigh University and NBER; and Michael Grossman, "Moral Hazard and Less Invasive Medical Treatment...