NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2010

 

Economics of Household Saving Workshop

 

Organizers: Erik Hurst and James Poterba

 

July 24, 2010

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Parkview

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

Dean Karlan, Yale University and NBER

 

Margaret McConnell, Harvard School of Public Health

 

Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University and NBER

 

Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth College

 

Getting to the Top of Mind: How Reminders Increase Saving

 

 

10:00 am

Mark Aguiar, University of Rochester and NBER

 

Mark Bils, University of Rochester and NBER

 

Has Consumption Inequality Mirrored Income Inequality?

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

Thomas Crossley, Cambridge University

 

Kevin Milligan, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

Micro and Macro Based Saving Rates – What Explains the Differences? (slides)

 

 

12:30 pm

Working Lunch

 

 

 

Claudia Biancotti and Michael Ehrmann, European Central Bank

 

The Euro Area Household Finance and Consumption Survey

 

 

1:45 pm

John Sabelhaus, University of Maryland

 

Jae Song, Social Security Administration

 

The Great Moderation in Micro Labor Earnings

 

 

2:45 pm

Break

 

 

3:00 pm

Robert Townsend, MIT and NBER

 

Saving and Risk in Developing Countries: Theory and Evidence

 

 

4:00 pm

Adjourn