Insurance Working Group meets.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Insurance Working Group, directed by NBER Research Associates Liran Einav of Stanford University and Kenneth Froot of Harvard Business School, met in Cambridge on April 5 and 6, 2013. These papers were discussed:

* Benjamin Handel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER, and Jonathan Kolstad, University of Pennsylvania and NBER, "Health Insurance for Humans: Information Frictions, Plan Choice, and Consumer Welfare"

* Keith Ericson, Boston University and NBER, and Amanda Starc, University of Pennsylvania, "How Product Standardization Affects Choice: Evidence from the Massachusetts Health Insurance Exchange"

* Jeffrey Brown, University of Illinois and NBER; Arie Kapteyn, RAND Corporation; Erzo Luttmer, Dartmouth College and NBER; and Olivia Mitchell, University of Pennsylvania and NBER, "Complexity as a Barrier to Annuitization: Do Consumers Know How to Value Annuities?"

* Levon Barseghyan and Francesca Molinari, Cornell University, and Joshua Teitelbaum, Georgetown Law School, "Inference under Stability of Risk Preferences"

* Tatyana...