NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2006

 

Social Security Workshop

 

Jeffrey Liebman and Andrew Samwick, Organizers

 

July 26, 2006

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 26:

 

 

JOINT SESSION WITH AGING AND PUBLIC ECONOMICS

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

LOUIS KAPLOW, Harvard University and NBER

 

Myopia and the Effect of Social Security and Capital Taxation on Labor Supply

 

 

10:00 am

ALAN AUERBACH and RONALD LEE, UC Berkeley and NBER

 

Notional Defined Contribution Pension Systems in a Stochastic Context:  Design and Stability

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

DAVID CUTLER and JEFFREY LIEBMAN, Harvard University and NBER

 

SEAMUS SMYTH, Harvard University

 

How Fast Should the Social Security Retirement Age Rise?

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:30 pm

BRUCE MEYER, University of Chicago and NBER

 

The Change in Earnings, Income, and Consumption Following Disability

 

 

 2:30 pm

Break

 

 

 3:00 pm

MARIO CATALAN, JAIME GUAJARDO and ALEXANDER W. HOFFMAISTER

 

International Monetary Fund

 

Coping with Spain’s Aging: Retirement Rules and Incentives

 

 

 4:00 pm

JEAN-OLIVIER HAIRAULT, University of Paris

 

FRANCOIS LANGOT, University of Maine

 

THEPTHIDA SOPRASEUTH, University of Evry

 

The Interaction Between Retirement and Job Search: A Global Approach to Older Worker's Employment

 

 

 5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

6/2/06