NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2007

 

Social Security Workshop

 

Jeffrey Liebman and Andrew Samwick, Organizers

 

July 25, 2007

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Parkview Room

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25:

 

 

JOINT SESSION WITH AGING AND PUBLIC ECONOMICS

 

 

 8:15 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 8:45 am

JEFFREY R. BROWN, University of Illinois and NBER

 

MARCUS CASEY, University of Illinois

 

OLIVIA S. MITCHELL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Who Values the Annuity from Social Security?  New Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

 

 

 9:45 am

Break

 

 

10:00 am

JOHN AMERIKS, The Vanguard Group

 

ANDREW CAPLIN, New York University and NBER

 

STEVEN LAUFER, New York University

 

STIJN VAN NIEUWERBURGH, New York University and NBER

 

The Joy of Giving or Assisted Living? Using Strategic Surveys to Separate Bequest and Precautionary Motives

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

JOSEPH T. MARCHAND, University of Alberta

 

The Evolution of Private Pensions, Risk-Sharing, and the Variance in Assets

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:15 pm

ANDREW SAMWICK, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

Changing Progressivity as a Means of Risk Protection in Investment Based Social Security Reform

 

 

 

 

2:15 pm

Break

 

 

 2:30 pm

DAVID E. BLOOM, DAVID CANNING, GUNTHER FINK, and

 

JOCEYLYN E. FINLAY, Harvard University

 

Demographic Change, Institutional Settings, and Labor Supply

 

 

 3:30 pm

TILL VON WACHTER, Columbia University and NBER

 

JAE SONG and JOYCE MANCHESTER, Social Security Administration

 

Recent Changes in Social Security Disability Rolls and the Employment Effects of Disability Insurance: An Analysis using 25 Years of Longitudinal Administrative Records

 

 

 4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 pm

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

 

 

 

 

5/22/07