AEAweb: AEA Sessions in 2008 ASSA Conference

These are 2008 AEA Conference Papers; please see also the full 2008 ASSA Preliminary Program Schedule.
Conference papers will be uploaded as they become available from the authors.

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Jerome Adda (University College London, UK)

Friday, January 4, 8:00 AM

Friday, January 4, 8:00 AM

Session: Dynamic Tradeoffs in Health Care Decisions (AEA)

Presiding: Hanming Fang (Yale University)

Social Smoking versus Addiction
Jerome Adda (University College London, UK)

The Impact of Unemployment on Health Investments and Risky Behaviors
John Cawley (Cornell University)
Feng Liu (Cornell University)

Dynamic Inefficiencies in Health Care Markets
Hanming Fang (Yale University)
Alessandro Gavazza (Yale University)

Time Preference, Time Discounting, and Smoking Decisions
Ahmed Khwaja (Duke University)
Dan Silverman (University of Michigan)
Frank Sloan (Duke University)
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