SI 2018 Aging
Organized by David M. Cutler and Jonathan S. Skinner
Supported by the National Institute on Aging
July 23-27, 2018
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
Monday, July 23
10:20 am

Education can Reduce Health Disparities Related to Genetic Risk of Obesity: Evidence from a British Reform

Silvia H. Barcellos, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Leandro Carvalho, University of Southern California
Patrick Turley, University of Southern California
11:10 am

Early Life Exposures, Gene-Environment Interactions, and Cognitive Decline in Old Age

Jason Fletcher, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Atheendar Venkataramani, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

Does When You Die Depend on Where You Live? Evidence from Hurricane Katrina

Tatyana Deryugina, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
David Molitor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
1:50 pm

Place-Based Drivers of Mortality: Evidence from Migration

Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER
Heidi L. Williams, Dartmouth College and NBER
2:40 pm
Break
3:00 pm

The Long Term Effects of Neighborhoods on Health: Evidence From Movers in Denmark

Jessica A. Laird, Mathematica, Inc.
Torben Heien Nielsen, University of Copenhagen
3:50 pm

Medicaid versus Private Coverage for Low-Income Families: What are the Tradeoffs between Cost-Sharing and Access to Care?

Silvia H. Barcellos, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Mireille Jacobson, University of Southern California and NBER
Helen G. Levy, University of Michigan and NBER
4:40 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 24
9:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:30 am

Social Security and Retirement Around the World: The Effect of Reforms on Retirement Incentives and Behavior

Axel H. Börsch-Supan, Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy and NBER
Courtney Coile, Wellesley College and NBER
10:20 am

New Evidence on the Choice of Retirement Income Strategies: Annuities vs. Other Options

Jeffrey R. Brown, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
James M. Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David P. Richardson, TIAA Institute
11:10 am
Break
11:30 am

The Transitional Labor Market Consequences of a Pension Reform

Matteo Paradisi, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF)
Giulia Bovini, Banca d'Italia
12:20 pm
Lunch
1:20 pm

Mortality Risk and Household Insurance in the U.S.

Itzik Fadlon, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Shanthi P. Ramnath, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Patricia Tong, RAND Corporation
2:10 pm

Self-assessed Cognitive Abilities and Financial Wealth: Are People Aware of Their Cognitive Decline?

Fabrizio Mazzonna, Universitá della Svizzera Italiana
Franco Peracchi, EIEF
3:00 pm
Break
3:15 pm

Smog in Aging Brains: The Impact of Exposure to Air Pollution on Cognitive Performance

Xin Zhang, Beijing Normal University
Xiaobo Zhang, Peking University
Xi Chen, Yale University and NBER
4:05 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 25
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
Joint session with Social Security
9:00 am

The Effect of Unconditional Cash Transfers on the Return to Work of Permanently Disabled Workers

Kathleen J. Mullen, University of Oregon and NBER
Stephanie L. Rennane, RAND Corporation
9:50 am

Tightening Disability Screening Or Reducing Disability Benefits? Evidence and Welfare Implications

Andreas Haller, Norwegian School of Economics
Stefan Staubli, University of Calgary and NBER
Josef Zweimueller, University of Zurich
10:40 am
Break
11:00 am
Symposium on Disability Insurance
Karen Glenn, Social Security Administration
Stephen Goss, Social Security Administration
Nicole Maestas, Harvard University and NBER
Jeffrey B. Liebman, Harvard University and NBER
12:20 pm
Lunch
1:20 pm

The Effect of Relabeling and Incentives on Retirement: Evidence from a Pension Reform

Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Ohto Kanninen, Labor Institute for Economic Research
2:10 pm

Tax-benefit linkage and Incidence of Social Security Contributions: Evidence from France

Antoine Bozio, Paris School of Economics
Thomas Breda, Paris School of Economics
Julien Grenet, Paris School of Economics
3:00 pm
Break
3:15 pm

Welfare Impacts of Social Security Reform: The Case of Chile in 1981

Kathleen McKiernan, Vanderbilt University
4:05 pm

Mechanisms behind Retirement Saving Behavior: Evidence from Administrative and Survey Data

Gopi Shah Goda, The Brookings Institution
Matthew Levy, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Colleen Flaherty Manchester, University of Minnesota
Aaron Sojourner, W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Joshua Tasoff, Claremont Graduate University
4:55 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Thursday, July 26
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
Joint Sessions with Health Care
9:00 am

Partial Rating Area Offering in the ACA Marketplaces: Facts, Theory and Evidence

Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Ami Ko, Georgetown University
10:00 am

Delegating Decision-Making to the Machine: Experimental Evidence from Health Insurance

Kate Bundorf, Duke University and NBER
Maria Polyakova, Stanford University and NBER
Ming Tai-Seale, University of California, San Diego
10:30 am

Saving Lives by Tying Hands: The Unexpected Effects of Constraining Health Care Providers

Thomas P. Hoe, Cornell University
Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
George P. Stoye, Institute for Fiscal Studies: IFS
11:00 am
Break
11:30 am

Market Failure in Kidney Exchange

Nikhil Agarwal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Itai Ashlagi, Stanford University
Eduardo M. Azevedo, University of Pennsylvania
Clayton Featherstone, University of Pennsylvania
Ömer Karaduman, Stanford University
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

Overconfidence and the Diffusion of Medical Technology

Diego A. Comin, Dartmouth College and NBER
Jonathan S. Skinner, Dartmouth College and NBER
Douglas O. Staiger, Dartmouth College and NBER
2:30 pm

Hospital Pricing and Public Payments

Michael Darden, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
Ian McCarthy, Emory University and NBER
Eric Barrette, Medtronic
3:00 pm

The Deadly Effects Of Losing Health Insurance

Judit Vall Castelló, University of Barcelona
Arnau Juanmarti, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Guillem Lopez Casasnovas, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
3:30 pm
Break
4:00 pm

Physician Behavior in the Presence of a Secondary Market: The Case of Prescription Opioids

Molly Schnell, Northwestern University and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Friday, July 27
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
Joint Sessions with Health Care
9:00 am

Liquidity Constraints and the Value of Insurance

Keith Marzilli Ericson, Boston University and NBER
Justin R. Sydnor, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
10:00 am

Financing the War on Cancer

Ralph Koijen, University of Chicago and NBER
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Columbia University and NBER
10:30 am

The Long-Run Impact of New Medical Ideas on Cancer Survival and Mortality

Frank R. Lichtenberg, Columbia University and NBER
11:00 am
Break
11:30 am

Triage Judgments in the Emergency Department

David C. Chan Jr, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

Health Insurance Design Meets Tax Incentives for Saving: Consumer Responses to Complex Contracts

Adam Leive, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
2:30 pm

Information Avoidance and Medical Screening: A Field Experiment in China

Yufeng Li, Capital Medical University Beijing
Juanjuan Meng, Peking University
Changcheng Song, University of Florida
Kai Zheng, University of California, Irvine
3:00 pm

Free for Children? Patient Cost-sharing and Health Care Utilization

Toshiaki Iizuka, The University of Tokyo
Hitoshi Shigeoka, Simon Fraser University and NBER
3:30 pm
Break
4:00 pm

Administrative Pricing, Incentive Alignment, and Medical Market Competition

Elizabeth L. Munnich, University of Louisville
Michael R. Richards, Cornell University and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn