Monday, July 24
10:15 am

Genetic and Environmental Influences on Schooling and Lifetime Earnings

Lauren L. Schmitz, University of Wisconsin - Madison
David Weir, University of Michigan
11:10 am

Genetic Ability, Wealth, and Financial Decision-Making

Daniel Barth, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Nicholas W. Papageorge, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
Kevin Thom, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
12:05 pm
Lunch
1:05 pm

Pharmaceutical Patent Citations and Real Value

David Abrams, University of Pennsylvania
Bhaven N. Sampat, Arizona State University and NBER
2:00 pm

Trials and Terminations: Learning from Competitors' Failures in Drug Development

Joshua L. Krieger, Harvard University
2:55 pm
Break
3:15 pm

Saving Regret

Axel H. Börsch-Supan, Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy and NBER
Michael D. Hurd, RAND Corporation and NBER
Susann Rohwedder, RAND Corporation
4:10 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 25
8:30 am
Coffee and pastries
9:00 am

Demographics and Robots

Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Pascual Restrepo, Yale University and NBER
9:55 am

Discrimination at the Intersection of Age, Race, and Gender: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-field Experiment

Joanna Lahey, Texas A&M University and NBER
Douglas Oxley, University of Wyoming
10:50 am

NIH Funding for Health Economics

Partha Bhattacharyya, National Institutes of Health
11:10 am
Break
11:30 am

Spill-Over Effects of a Randomized Controlled Trial for Older Adults

Emma Aguila, University of Southern California
Arie Kapteyn, University of Southern California and NBER
Erik Meijer, University of Southern California
12:25 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

Minimum Wages and Retirement

Mark J. Borgschulte, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Heepyung Cho, Korea University
2:25 pm

Gender Differences in Parental Investments and Intergenerational Transfers in China

Xiaoyan Lei, CCER Peking University
Kathleen M. McGarry, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Xiaoting Sun, University of California at Los Angeles
Yaohui Zhao, CCER
3:20 pm
Break
3:30 pm

How do Pension Wealth Shocks affect Working and Claiming?

Rafael Lalive, University of Lausanne
Arvind Magesan, University of Calgary
Stefan Staubli, University of Calgary and NBER
4:25 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 26
Joint session with Social Security
9:00 am
Coffee and pastries
9:30am
Symposium on Recent Developments in Mortality Analysis
Anne Case, Princeton University and NBER
David M. Cutler, Harvard University and NBER
Angus Deaton, Princeton University and NBER
Stephen Goss, Social Security Administration ( slides)
11:20 am
Break
11:35 am

Disability Insurance Income Saves Lives

Alexander M. Gelber, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Timothy J. Moore, Purdue University and NBER
Alexander Strand, Social Security Administration
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

Workforce Aging, Pension Reforms, and Firm Dynamics

Francesca Carta, Bank of Italy
Francesco D'Amuri, Bank of Italy
Till M. von Wachter, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
2:25 pm

Valuing Government Obligations When Markets Are Incomplete

Jasmina Hasanhodzic, Babson College
Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Boston University and NBER
3:40 pm

Do older Americans have more income than we think?

Adam Bee, U.S. Census Bureau
Joshua Mitchell, U.S. Census Bureau
4:35 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Thursday, July 27
8:30 am
Coffee and pastries
Joint session with Health Care in Charles Suites
9:00 am

Screening in Contract Design: Evidence from the ACA Health Insurance Exchanges

Michael Geruso, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Timothy J. Layton, University of Virginia and NBER
Daniel Prinz, World Bank
10:00 am

Selection, Medical Spending, and Productivity in Wellness Programs: Evidence from the Illinois Workplace Wellness Study

Damon Jones, University of Chicago and NBER
David Molitor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Julian Reif, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
11:00 am
Break
11:30 am

Chasing the Missing Diagnoses: Exploring the Consequences of Removing Barriers to Information

Rebecca Mary Myerson, University of Wisconsin Madison
Lisandro Colantonio, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Monika Safford, Weill Cornell Medical College
David Meltzer, University of Chicago and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

Surprise! Emergency Physician Out-of-Network Billing in the United States

Zack Cooper, Yale University and NBER
Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University and NBER
Nathan Shekita, Yale University
2:30 pm

Moneyball in Medicare

Edward C. Norton, University of Michigan and NBER
Jun Li, Syracuse University
Anup Das, University of Michigan
Lena Chen, University of Michigan
3:30 pm
Break
4:00 pm

How Do Hospitals Respond to Managed Care? Evidence from At-Risk Newborns

Ajin Lee, University of California, Riverside
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Friday, July 28
8:00 am
Coffee and pastries
Joint session with Health Care in Charles Suites
8:45 am
Partha Bhattacharyya, National Institutes of Health
NIA Priorities
9:00 am

Subsidizing Health Insurance For Low-Income Adults: Evidence From Massachusetts

Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Mark Shepard, Harvard University and NBER
10:00 am

Medicaid and Financial Health

Kenneth Brevoort, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Daniel Grodzicki, Pennsylvania State University
Martin B. Hackmann, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
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The Effects of Health Insurance on Home Payment Delinquency: Evidence from the ACA Marketplace Subsidies

Emily Gallagher, University of Colorado at Boulder
Radhakrishnan Gopalan, Washington University, St. Louis
Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Washington University in St Louis
11:00 am
Break
11:30 am

Targeting with In-kind Transfers: Evidence from Medicaid Home Care

Ethan Lieber, University of Notre Dame and NBER
Lee Lockwood, University of Virginia and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

Waiting for Surgery: Effects on Health and Labor Supply

Anna Godøy, University of California at Berkeley
Venke F. Haaland, University of Stavanger
Ingrid MS. Huitfeldt, University of Oslo
Mark Votruba, Case Western Reserve University
2:30 pm

A Claim a Day Keeps the Doctor Away? Premium Refunds and Forward Looking Behaviour in the German Private Health Insurance Market

Daniel LA. Avdic, Monash University
Simon Decker, University of Duisburg-Essen
Martin Karlsson, University of Duisburg-Essen
3:30 pm
Break
4:00 pm

The Impact of Cost Sharing for Mental Health Care

Bastian Ravesteijn, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Eli Schachar, Harvard University
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Funding for this conference was made possible, in part, by R13 AG70 from the National Institute on Aging. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention by trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.