
	Saturday, July 28
	Format: 25 minute presentations and 20 minutes for general discussion
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Opening Remarks by the Organizers
9:15 am	Can and Should Happiness be a Policy Goal? Shigehiro Oishi, Columbia University
10:00 am	Can Time Heal All Wounds? An Empirical Assessment of Adaptation to Functional Limitations (slides) Anne de Hond, Erasmus University Rotterdam Pieter Bakx, Erasmus University Rotterdam Matthijs Versteegh, Erasmus University Rotterdam
10:45 am	Break
11:10 am	Eudaimonic Well-Being and Aging: What Have We Learned? Carol D. Ryff, University of Wisconsin-Madison
11:55 am	Lunch
1:15 pm	Regularly Tracking Subjective Well-being as a Potential Leading Indicator in the Crisis of Premature Mortality in the U.S. Carol Graham, Brookings Institution
2:00 pm	How Do Subjective Consumption Vectors Vary with Age? (slides) Daniel J. Benjamin, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Kristen Cooper, Gordon College Ori Heffetz, Cornell University and NBER Miles Kimball, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER
2:45 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Do Humans Suffer a Psychological Low in Midlife? Two Approaches (With and Without Controls) in Seven Data Sets David G. Blanchflower, Dartmouth College and NBER Andrew Oswald, Warwick University
3:45 pm	Discussion and Closing Remarks
4:15 pm	Adjourn

Participants

Matthew Adler, Duke University
Pieter Bakx, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Panka Bencsik, Vanderbilt University
Daniel J. Benjamin, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
David G. Blanchflower, Dartmouth College and NBER
Jeffrey R. Bloem, University of Minnesota
David E. Bloom, Harvard University and NBER
Leandro Carvalho, University of Southern California
Maryaline J. Catillon, Harvard University
Xi Chen, Yale University
Courtney Coile, Wellesley College and NBER
Kristen B. Cooper, Gordon College
Julia Dennett, Yale University
Aileen Devlin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kelsey M. Drewry, Emory University
Susan Dynarski, Harvard University and NBER
Richard G. Frank, Harvard University and NBER
Ashvin Gandhi, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Kaushik Ghosh, National Bureau of Economic Research
Colin Gray, Wayfair
Ori Heffetz, Cornell University and NBER
Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Zoe Hitzig, Harvard University
Péter Hudomiet, RAND Corporation
Michael D. Hurd, RAND Corporation and NBER
Stefan J. Hut, Amazon
Ohto Kanninen, Labor Institute for Economic Research
Laura Kubzansky, Harvard University

Tushar Kundu, University of Southern California
Joanna Lahey, Texas A&M University and NBER
Ajin Lee, University of California, Riverside
Hui Li, Harvard University
Robin L. Lumsdaine, American University and NBER
Kathleen M. McGarry, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Plamen Nikolov, US Government
Shigehiro Oishi, Columbia University
Andrew J. Oswald, Warwick University
James M. Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jessica Wolpaw Reyes, Amherst College and NBER
Nicholas F. Reynolds, University of Essex
Susann Rohwedder, RAND Corporation
Jean Roth
Carol D. Ryff, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Rebecca Sachs, Harvard University
Claudia Senik, Paris School of Economics
Elizabeth Setren, Tufts University and NBER
Hitoshi Shigeoka, Simon Fraser University and NBER
Hugh Shiplett, University of New Brunswick
Susan Stewart, National Bureau of Economic Research
Liyang Sun, University College London
Pietro Tebaldi, Columbia University and NBER
Yulya Truskinovsky, Wayne State University
Pierre-Luc P. Vautrey, Meta
Chelsea Watson, University of Southern California
Wesley Yin, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Xin Zhang, Beijing Normal University