Health Economics Program meeting.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Program on Health Economics met in Cambridge on May 6, 2011. Program Director Michael Grossman of City University of New York's Graduate Center and Research Associate Theodore J. Joyce of Baruch College organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Dean Lillard and Eamon Molloy, Cornell University, and Andrew Sfekas, Temple University, "Smoking Initiation and the Iron Law of Demand"

* George Wehby, University of Iowa, and Jason Hockenberry, University of Iowa and NBER, "Impact of Child Health and Disability on Subsequent Maternal Fertility"

* Pinar Karaca-Mandic, University of Minnesota and NBER, and Dana P. Goldman and Geoffrey F. Joyce, University of Southern California and NBER, "Private Insurance and Outcomes for Children with Asthma"

* Marah A. Curtis, Boston University; Hope Corman and Kelly Noonan, Rider University and NBER...