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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Conference on the Economics of Aging

David Wise, Organizer

April 28 – May1, 2016

The Boulders
34631 North Tom Darlington Drive
Carefree, Arizona

PROGRAM

Thursday, April 28 – Duck Pond
7:00 pm	Reception and Dinner
Friday, April 29 – Sonoran Ballroom
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	James Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Steven F. Venti, Dartmouth College and NBER David A. Wise, Harvard University and NBER TBD Discussant: James P. Smith, RAND Corporation
9:50 am	David M. Cutler, Harvard University and NBER TBD Discussant: Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University and NBER
10:40 am	Coffee Break
11:00 am	John Beshears, Harvard University and NBER James Choi, Yale University and NBER David Laibson, Harvard University and NBER Brigitte Madrian, Harvard University and NBER Sean Wang, NBER Who is Easier to Nudge? Discussant: Daniel L. McFadden, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
11:50 am	Michael D. Hurd, RAND Corporation and NBER Susann Rohwedder, RAND Corporation Predicting Labor Force Participation of the Older Population Discussant: David Weir, University of Michigan
12:40 pm	Lunch, Upper Sonoran Patio, spouses are invited
2:00 pm	Florian Heiss, University of Duesseldorf Daniel L. McFadden, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Joachim Winter, University of Munich Amelie Wuppermann, University of Munich The Housing Crisis of the Late 2000s and Causal Paths Between Health and Socioeconomic Status Discussant: Jonathan S. Skinner, Dartmouth College and NBER
2:50 pm	Axel H. Börsch-Supan, Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy and NBER The Merits of International Comparisons Discussant: Arie Kapteyn, University of Southern California and NBER
3:40 pm	Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER TBD Discussant: Jay Bhattacharya, Stanford University and NBER
4:30 pm	Adjourn
Saturday, April 30 – Sonoran Ballroom
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Diego Comin, Dartmouth College and NBER Jonathan Skinner, Dartmouth College and NBER Douglas Staiger, Dartmouth College and NBER Knowledge, Skill, and Technology Adoption: The Case of Implantable Defibrillators (ICDs) Discussant: David M. Cutler, Harvard University and NBER
9:50 am	Jay Bhattacharya, Stanford University and NBER Population Aging, Health, and Disability in Japan Discussant: Hidehiko Ichimura, University of Tokyo
10:40 am	Coffee Break
11:00 am	James Banks, Institute for Fiscal Studies Richard Blundell, Insitute for Fiscal Studies Peter Levell, Institute for Fiscal Studies Jim Smith, RAND Corporation Life-Cycle Consumption Patterns at Older Ages in the US and the UK Discussant: Michael D. Hurd, RAND Corporation and NBER
11:50 am	Arie Kapteyn, University of Southern California and NBER Mallory Montgomery, University of Southern California James Smith, RAND Corporation Arthur van Soest, Tilburg University Why is There a Relation Between GDP and Life Satisfaction? Discussant: Susann Rohwedder, RAND Corporation
12:40 pm	Adjourn
Sunday, May 1 – Departure