NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Macroeconomics and Individual Decision Making Conference

George Akerlof and Robert Shiller, Organizers

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

November 10, 2007

Program

8:15 am	Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Social Identity and Preferences
	Daniel Benjamin, Cornell University
	James Choi, Yale University and NBER
	A. Joshua Strickland, Yale University
	Discussant: Karla Hoff, World Bank
10:00 am	A Report on an Ongoing Field Study of Pricing
	Truman Bewley, Yale University
	No discussant
11:00 am	Coffee Break
11:30 am	The Power of the Family
	Alberto Alesina, Harvard University and NBER
	Paola Giuliano, Harvard University
	Discussant: Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Decision Makers as Statisticians: Diversity, Ambiguity and Robustness
	Nabil Al-Najjar, Northwestern University
	No discussant
2:30 pm	Depression Babies: Do Macroeconomic Experiences Affect Risk-Taking?
	Ulrike Malmendier, UC, Berkeley and NBER
	Stefan Nagel, Stanford University and NBER
	Discussant: John Ameriks, The Vanguard Group
3:30 pm	Coffee Break
4:00 pm	Aggregation Reversals and the Social Formation of Beliefs
	Edward Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
	Bruce Sacerdote, Dartmouth College and NBER
	Discussant: Abhijit Banerjee, MIT and NBER
5:00 pm	Adjourn
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