Celebrating Thirty Years of Behavioral and Social Science of Aging

 

National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington DC February 28 2014

 

Organizing Committee: 

Robert Hauser (DBASSE andNRC);  James Poterba (NBER and MIT), James Smith (RAND), David Weir (University of Michigan ISR), David Wise (NBER and Harvard)

 

PROVISIONAL PROGRAM

 

 

11:00 am – 12 noon

Registration and Light Lunch

 

 

12:00 noon  

Introduction and Welcome

Richard Hodes, Director, National Institute of Aging

 

 

12:10 pm – 1:05 pm

The Economics of Health and Aging     

Daniel McFadden, University of California, Berkeley

David Wise, Harvard University

David Cutler, Harvard University

Chair: Jon Skinner, Dartmouth College

 

 

1:05 pm – 2:00 pm

International Research and Cross-National Comparisons

David Weir, University of Michigan

James Smith, RAND Corporation

Axel Börsch-Supan, Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy

Chair: James Poterba, MIT

 

 

 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm             BREAK

 

2:30 pm  - 2:40 pm

NIA/BSR and the National Academy of Sciences

Robert Hauser, DBASSE and NRC

 

 

2:40 pm – 3:35 pm

Demography of Aging and Disability Trends

Linda Waite, University of Chicago

James Vaupel, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Eileen Crimmins, University of Southern California

Chair: Ron Lee, University of California, Berkeley

 

 

3:35 pm – 3:55 pm  BREAK

 

 

3:55 pm – 5:05 pm

Advances in Basic & Applied Behavioral Science at the Intersection of Psychology & Economics

Laura Carstensen, Stanford University

Angus Deaton, Princeton University

David Laibson, Harvard University

Chair: Robert Willis, University of Michigan

 

 

5:05 pm – 6:00 pm

Lifecourse Studies/Pathways/Reversibility

James Heckman, University of Chicago

John Cacioppo, University of Chicago

Lisa Berkman, Harvard University

Chair: David Reiss, Yale University

 

 

6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Reception

 

 

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Dinner