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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2009

 

Social Security Workshop

 

Andrew Samwick, Organizer

 

July 22, 2009

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 22:

 

 

 

JOINT SESSION WITH AGING AND PUBLIC ECONOMICS

 

 

 8:15 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 8:45 am

JEFFREY LIEBMAN and ERZO LUTTMER, Harvard University and NBER

 

The Perception of Social Security Incentives for Labor Supply and Retirement: The Median Voter Knows More Than You’d Think

 

 

 9:45 am

Break

 

 

10:00 am

DAYANAND MANOLI, UC, Los Angeles

 

KATHLEEN MULLEN, RAND Corporation

 

MATHIS WAGNER, University of Chicago

 

Risk Aversion & Retirement Decisions: Using Policy Variation to Identify and Estimate a Structural Model of Retirement

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

ROOZBEH HOSSEINI, Arizona State University

 

Adverse Selection in the Annuity Market and the Role for Social Security

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:15 pm

JOHN GEANAKOPLOS, Yale University

 

STEPHEN P. ZELDES, Columbia University and NBER

 

The Market Value of Social Security

 

 

 2:15 pm

Break

 

 

 2:30 pm

FRANK R. LICHTENBERG, Columbia University and NBER

 

Has Pharmaceutical Innovation Reduced Social Security Disability Growth?

 

 

 3:30 pm

PIERRE-CARL MICHAUD, RAND Corporation

 

DANA GOLDMAN and DARIUS LAKDAWALLA, RAND Corporation and NBER

 

YUHUI ZHENG and ADAM H. GAILEY, RAND Corporation

 

Understanding the Economic Consequences of Shifting Trends in Population Health

 

 

 4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 pm

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