Measurement and Tracking of Subjective Well-Being for Aging Research
Organized by Daniel J. Benjamin, Kristen B. Cooper, Ori Heffetz, Stefan Schneider, and Arthur A. Stone
Supported by the National Institute on Aging
July 28, 2018
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge, MA

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, The 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