THE 63rd INTERNATIONAL ATLANTIC ECONOMIC CONFERENCE
Madrid, Spain
14-18 March 2007

Health and Economics
Saturday 13h30 - 15h30
Organizer: José Ferraz-Nunes, Goteborg University

Chair: José Ferraz-Nunes, Goteborg University

Patricia R. Loubeau, Iona College, Review of Cost-of-Illness Studies on Obesity

Richard Fox, Madonna University, The Effects of Globalization on U.S. Employee Health Care Benefits

José Ferraz-Nunes, Goteborg University, Distribution of Resources and Health

Gina Bergström, Karolina Andersson, Ingvar Karlberg, Anders Carlsten, and Max Petzold, Goteborg University, Effects of Decentralized Responsibility for Cost of Outpatient Prescription Drugs in Sweden

Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan, Rider University, Nancy Reichman and Ofira Schwartz-Soicher, Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine, Crime and Circumstance: The Effects of Infant Health Stocks on Fathers' Criminal Activity

Discussants: José Ferraz-Nunes, Goteborg University, Patricia R. Loubeau, Iona College, and Richard Fox, Madonna University