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National Bureau of Economic Research

 

Conference on the Economics of Aging

 

David A. Wise, Organizer

April 30-May 2, 2015

 

The Boulders

34631 North Tom Darlington Drive

Carefree, Arizona

 

Thursday, April 30 – Duck Pond

 

 

7:00 pm

Reception and Dinner

 

 

Friday, May 1 – Juniper Room

 

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

James Poterba, MIT and NBER

 

Steven Venti, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

David Wise, Harvard University and NBER

 

Assets at End of Life and When First Observed: Looking Backwards

 

 

 

Discussant: Brigitte Madrian, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

9:50 am

David Cutler, Harvard University and NBER

 

Understanding the Improvement in Disability Free Life Expectancy In the U.S. Elderly Population

 

 

 

Discussant:  Jon Skinner, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

10:40 am

Coffee Break

 

 

11:00 am

John Beshears, Stanford University and NBER

 

James Choi, Yale University and NBER

 

Joshua Hurwitz, NBER

 

David Laibson, Harvard University and NBER

 

Brigitte Madrian, Harvard University and NBER

 

Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems: An International Comparison

 

 

 

Discussant:  Dan McFadden, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

 

 

11:50 am

Philip Armour, RAND Corporation

 

Mike Hurd, RAND Corporation and NBER

 

Susann Rohwedder, RAND Corporation

 

Trends in Pension Cash-out at Job Change and the Effects on Long-term Outcomes

 

 

 

Discussant: Jim Poterba, MIT and NBER

 

 

12:40 pm

Group Lunch – spouses are invited

 

El Pedregal Courtyard

 

 

 2:40 pm

Florian Heiss, University of Mainz

 

Daniel McFadden, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

 

Joachim Winter, University of Munich

 

Amelie Wuppermann, University of Munich

 

Yaoyao Zhu, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

 

Three Measures of Disease Prevalence: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

 

 

 

Discussant:  Jim Smith, RAND Corporation

 

 

3:30 pm

Anne Case, Princeton University and NBER

 

Angus Deaton, Princeton University and NBER

 

Suicide,Age,and Wellbeing: an Empirical Investigation

 

 

 

Discussant:  David Cutler, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

4:20 pm

Adjourn

 

 

Saturday, May 2– Juniper Room

 

 

 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

Raquel Fonseca, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM), CIRANO and RAND Corporation

 

Arie Kapteyn, University of Southern California and NBER

 

Jinkook Lee, University of Southern California and RAND Corporation

 

Gema Zamarro, University of Southern California

 

Does Retirement Make you Happy? A Simultaneous Equations Approach

 

 

 

Discussant: Anne Case, Princeton and NBER

 

 

9:50 am

Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University and NBER

 

Jon Skinner, Darthmouth College and NBER

 

Racial Disparities in Hospital Quality

 

 

 

Discussant:   David Weir, University of Michigan

 

 

10:40 am

Coffee Break

 

 

11:10 am

Jay Bhattacharya, Stanford University

 

Challenges in Controlling Medicare Spending: Treating Highly Complex Patients

 

 

 

Discussant:   Hidehiko Ichimura, The University of Tokyo

 

 

12:00 pm

Lunch Break

 

 

2:00 pm

James Banks, Institute for Fiscal Studies

 

Richard Blundell, University College London and Insitute for Fiscal Studies

 

Zoe Oldfield, Institute for Fiscal Studies

 

Jim Smith, RAND Corporation

 

House Price Volatility and the Housing Ladder

 

 

 

Discussant:  Steve Venti, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

2:50 pm

Esther Duflo, MIT and NBER

 

Abhijit Banerjee, MIT and NBER

 

Title: TBD

 

 

 

Discussant:  Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 3:40 pm

Adjourn

 

 

Sunday, May 3

 

 

 

Depart