SI 2018 Social Security
Organized by Jeffrey B. Liebman
July 25, 2018
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Wednesday, July 25

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

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