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"Medical Spending Across the Developed World" is a project that seeks to bring together evidence for how and why medical spending varies across 9 different countries. This includes both levels of aggregate spending, and new evidence on who receives medical care, and when they receive it

On the 27th and 28th of March, the Institute for Fiscal Studies will host a workshop that will feature the preliminary findings and include presentations from leading academics from across the world. The event will begin at 9.30am on Friday and finish by 1.00pm on Saturday.  Lunch and refreshments will be provided on both days.

The project will culminate in the publication of a special issue of Fiscal Studies in early 2016.

Confirmed speakers include:

Pieter Bakx (Erasmus University Rotterdam), "Concentration of Health Care Expenditures in the Netherlands".

Sebastian Calonico (University of Miami), “Long-term health spending persistence among the privately insured: Exploring dynamic panel estimation approaches”.

Stacey Chen (Academia Sinica), “Medical Spending in Taiwan”.

Bent Christensen (Aarhus University), “Medical spending on the Danish elderly”.

Rick Evans (Brigham Young University), "US Insurance Data".

Eric French (UCL and IFS), “Medical Spending on the US Elderly”.

Pierre-Yves Geoffard (Paris School of Economics), "Medical Spending in France".

Yoko Ibuka (Tohoku University), “Medical expenditure in Japan: an analysis with administrative data from a National Health Insurance plan”.

Tobias Klein (Tilburg University), “Medical Spending of Privately Insured Individuals in Germany”.

Svetlana Pashchenko (University of Virginia), “Medical spending in the US: facts from the Medical Expenditure Survey Dataset”.

Nigel Rice (University of York), "Medical Spending in England".

Jon Skinner (Dartmouth College), “Out-of-Pocket Medical Expenditures in the United States: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study”.

James Smith (RAND and IFS), “Health, disability and mortality differences at older ages between the US and England”

George Stoye (IFS), "Medical Spending at Older Ages in England: Evidence from National Health Service Administrative Records".