SHEA Conference 2014

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Date: 17 April 2014
Venue: Mochtar Riady Auditorium, Singapore Management University

The Singapore Health Economics Association presents the inaugural conference in the field of health economics, health care policy and policy research.

To register please visit http:https://economics.smu.edu.sg/shea2014/registration.

SHEA INAUGURAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

08:00–09:00	REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
09:00–09:05	WELCOME ADDRESS Professor Bryce Hool, Dean, School of Economics, Singapore Management University
09:05–09:10	INTRODUCTION BY SINGAPORE HEALTH ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION Senior Research Fellow Rhema Vaithianathan, Singapore Management University Assistant Professor Joanne Yoong, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore Associate Professor Tilak Abeysinghe, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore
09:10–09:30	GUEST OF HONOUR ADDRESS Professor Ivy Ng, CEO, Singhealth Group
09:30–10:30	KEYNOTE I: Professor Winnie Yip, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford Title of paper TBA.
10:30–10:45	COFFEE BREAK
10:45–12:00	PARALLEL SESSION I
	RISK AND INSURANCE	HEALTH SYSTEMS I – PHYSICIANS AND PATIENTS	DEMOGRAPHIC AND LIFESTYLE CHANGE I – AGING AND CHRONIC DISEASE
	The Insurance Value of Medical Innovation Darius Lakdawalla, Anup Malani, and Julian Reif USC, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Running Some Tests: Doctor-Patient Demographic Concordance and Diagnostic Test Orders Sophie Joyce Singapore Management University	Reduction of Working Time: Does it Lead to a Healthy Lifestyle? Taehyun Anh Sogang University
	Labor Supply and Welfare Effects of Access to Medicare via SSDI Seonghoon Kim Singapore Management University	Public, Private or Both? – Analysing factors Influencing the Labour Supply of Medical Specialists Terence Cheng University of Melbourne	The Current and Future Economic Burden of Diabetes in Singapore 2010–2030 Joanne Yoong SSHSPH/USC
	Impact Evaluation of Voluntary Student Health Insurance in Vietnam Mai Valera Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health	Dissatisfied Patients in China: What Matters? Jay Pan, Dan Liu, Shehzad Ali Sichuan University	Psychological Well-being in Old Age: The Role of Living Arrangements in Vietnam Ken Yamada and Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan Singapore Management University
	Patient Cost-Sharing and Health Care Utilization in Early childhood: Evidence from Regression Discontinuity Design Hsing-Wen Han, Hsien-Ming Lien, Tzu-Ting Yang Tamkang University, National Chengchi, The University of British Columbia		Economic Hardship Related Stress and Health of Chinese Elderly Dhiman Das National University of Singapore
12:00–13:00	LUNCHEON
13:00–14:00	KEYNOTE II: Professor Li Ling, China Centre for Economic Research, Peking University “China’s Healthcare Reform”
14:00–15:15	PARALLEL SESSION II
	HEALTH SYSTEMS II – HOSPITALS	DEMOGRAPHIC AND LIFESTYLE CHANGE II – MALNUTRITION AND OBESITY	HEALTH AND HUMAN CAPITAL
	The Impact of Agglomeration Economies on Hospital Input Prices Li Jing Singapore Management University	Measuring Socioeconomic Inequality in Obesity: Looking Beyond the Obesity Threshold Marcel Bilger, Eliza Kruger, Eric A Finkelstein Duke-NUS	Effects of Height on Cognitive Ability in Adolescence and Wage in Labour Market: Evidence from Taiwan Ming-Jen Lin and Hsin-Lan Ting National Taiwan University
	Modeling and Predicting the Risk of Extreme Hospital Bills: The Case of Singapore Tilak Abeysinghe National University of Singapore	Is the BMI a Relic of the Past? David Johnston and Wang‐Sheng Lee Monash University, Deakin University	Pollution, Test Scores and Distribution of Academic Achievement: Evidence from California Schools 2002–2008 John Ham National University of Singapore
	The Collateral Health Impact of SARS in Taiwan Daniel Bennett, Chun-Fang Chiang and David Melzer University of Chicago, National Taiwan University	Economic Burden of Disease-Associated Malnutrition in China Rhema Vaithianathan Singapore Management University	Long-Term Impacts of Early-life Exposure to Malaria: Evidence from Taiwan's 1950 Eradication Campaign Ming-Jen Lin, Shiu-Han Shih National Taiwan University
		Spillover Effects of Local Human Capital Stock on Adult Obesity: Evidence from German Neighbourhoods Rui Dang Ruhr Graduate School in Economics	Rusticated Youth: The Send-down Movement and Health Lu Yi National University Singapore
15:15–15:30	COFFEE BREAK
15:30–16:30	ROUNDTABLE “Priorities for healthcare financing reforms in Singapore and lessons from abroad” Professor Rachel Lu, Department of Health Care Management, Chang Gung University Associate Prof Marcel Bilger, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Dr Leow Yung Khee, Medical Director, Head, Group Insurance and Claims Division, Great Eastern Life Assurance Co. Ltd Chair by Associate Professor Tilak Abeysinghe, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore
16:30–17:30	KEYNOTE III: Professor Amitabh Chandra, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University “Technology Growth in Healthcare”
17:30–17:35	CLOSING REMARKS Senior Research Fellow Rhema Vaithianathan, Singapore Management University
18:00 onwards	CONFERENCE DINNER