Healthcare Session

"Mandate-Based Health Reform and the Labor Market: Evidence from the Massachusetts Reform"

Jonathan Kolstad (The Wharton School) and Amanda Kowalski (Yale)

2.Kolstad.Paper.pdf

"Private Information and Insurance Rejections"

Nathaniel Hendren (Harvard University and NBER)

3.Hendren.Paper.pdf

Discussants: Raffaella Sadun (Harvard Business School) and John Friedman (Harvard Kennedy School)

Break

"Why are Some Regions More Innovative than Others? The Role of Firm Size Diversity"

Ajay Agrawal (University of Toronto), Alberto Galasso (University of Toronto), Iain Cockbum (Boston University) and Alexander Oettl (Georgia Tech)

4.Galasso.Paper.pdf

"Estimating the Impact of Trade and Offshoring on American Workers Using the Current Population Surveys"

Ann Harrison (Wharton and NBER), Avraham Ebenstien (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Margaret McMillan (Tufts University and NBER), and Shannon Phillips (Boston College)

5.Harrison.Paper.pdf

Discussants: Heidi Williams (MIT) and Juan Alcacer (Harvard Business School)

Break

Competitiveness Panel

Reception

Kresge Faculty Club Library

Dinner

"The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing"

Michael Greenstone (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Chad Syverson (University of Chicago) and John List (University of Chicago)

6.Greenstone.Paper.pdf

"Public Procurement and the Private Supply of Green Buildings"

Michael Toffel (Harvard Business School) and Tim Simcoe (Boston University)

7.Simcoe.Paper.pdf

Discussants: Rebecca Henderson (Harvard Business School) and Hunt Allcott (NYU)

Break

Environment Panel​​

Participants: George Baker (HBS and Fox Islands Wind Project)

Mindy Lubber - Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (Ceres)

Anthony Mansell - International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)

Moderator: Michael Toffel (Harvard Business School)

"Closing Discussion & Farewell"

Box Lunch