2020 Plenaries & Special Events

Sunday, June 7th, 2020

Opening Plenary: Access to Reproductive Health: The Role of Cost
Time: 5:30pm – 6:30pm
Room: Grand EF

Martha Bailey is a Professor of Economics and a Research Professor at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan. She is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Bailey received her B.A. from Agnes Scott College in 1997 and her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 2005. Prior to joining the University of Michigan economics faculty, she was a scholar in the Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Program. She has served on the editorial board at the Journal of Economic History and currently serves on the board of editors at the Journal of Economic Literature and Demography.


Opening Reception
Time: 6:30pm – 7:30pm
Room: Grand Hall


Monday, June 8th, 2020

Presidential Address & Awards Luncheon
Time: 12:00pm – 1:30pm
Room: Grand EF

Janet Currie is the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the Co-director of Princeton’s Center for Health and Wellbeing. She also co-directs the Program on Families and Children at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is the President of the American Society of Health Economics, has served as the Vice President of the American Economics Association, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and of the American Academy of Art and Sciences.


Special Plenary: What the Candidates are Proposing for Healthcare Reform?
Time: 5:15pm – 6:30pm
Room: Grand EF


Tuesday, June 9th, 2020

Tuesday Plenary:  Voluntary vs. Mandatory Health Care Regulation
Time: 12:00pm – 1:30pm
Room: Grand EF

Liran Einav is a professor of economics at Stanford University and a research associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he is directing the Industrial Organization Program. Einav’s areas of specialization are industrial organization and applied microeconomics. An important strand of his work is focused on insurance markets, including the development of empirical models of insurance demand and pricing, and empirical analyses of the implications of adverse selection and moral hazard. Much of Einav’s current work is focused on healthcare markets.


Poster Reception
Time: 5:15pm – 6:30pm
Room: Midway West


Wednesday, June 10th, 2020

Closing Plenary
Time: 7:15am – 8:15am
Room: Grand EF