SI 2020 Aging
Organized by David M. Cutler and Jonathan S. Skinner
Supported by the National Institute on Aging
July 16-17, 2020
on Zoom.us
Thursday, July 16
10:15 am

Medicare and Elderly Psychological Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Silvia H. Barcellos, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Mireille Jacobson, University of Southern California and NBER
Arthur A. Stone, University of Southern California

Social Distance Policies in ECON-EPI Networks: the Role of Aging

Marina Azzimonti, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Alessandra Fogli, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Fabrizio Perri, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Mark Ponder, NERA Economic Consulting

Building Better Retirement Systems in the Wake of the Global Pandemic (slides)

Olivia S. Mitchell, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
12:00 pm
Break
12:15 pm
Breakout Sessions
• Aging and COVID
Amanda E. Kowalski, University of Michigan and NBER
• Nursing Homes and COVID
David C. Grabowski, Harvard University
• Family Structure and COVID
Kathleen M. McGarry, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
• The Epidemiology of COVID
David Dowdy, Johns Hopkins University
1:00 pm
Break
1:15 pm

Hazed and Confused: The Effect of Air Pollution on Dementia

Kelly Bishop, Arizona State University
Jonathan D. Ketcham, Arizona State University
Nicolai V. Kuminoff, Arizona State University and NBER

Impact of Early-life Stress on Long-run Labour Market Outcomes

Joanna Aleksandra Kopinska, Sapienza University of Rome
Vincenzo Atella, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Edoardo Di Porto, University of Naples Federico II
Maarten Lindeboom, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Breaking the Implicit Contract: Using Pension Freezes to Study Lifetime Labor Supply

Dhiren Patki, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
2:45 pm
Adjourn
Friday, July 17
10:15 am

Robots and Labor in the Service Sector: Firm-level Evidence from Nursing Homes

Karen Eggleston, Stanford University and NBER
Yong Suk Lee, University of Notre Dame
Toshiaki Iizuka, The University of Tokyo

Does Private Equity Investment in Healthcare Benefit Patients? Evidence from Nursing Homes

Atul Gupta, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Sabrina T. Howell, Harvard University and NBER
Constantine Yannelis, University of Cambridge
Abhinav Gupta, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Immigration, the Labor Market, and the Quality of Long-Term Care

David C. Grabowski, Harvard University
Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Brian McGarry, University of Rochester and NBER
11:45 am
Break
12:00 pm
Breakout Sessions
• Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias
Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University and NBER
• Genetics and Aging
Nicholas W. Papageorge, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
• Pensions and Savings
Gopi Shah Goda, Stanford University and NBER
• Cognition and Aging
Hitoshi Shigeoka, Simon Fraser University and NBER
12:45 pm
Break
1:00 pm

Education, Health, and Mortality

Adriana Lleras-Muney, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

Work, Health, and Mortality: The Case of WLEMMAs in the Shale Boom and Bust (slides)

Joseph Marchand, University of Alberta
Kevin S. Milligan, University of British Columbia and NBER

General Equilibrium Effects of Insurance Expansions: Evidence from Long-Term Care

Martin B. Hackmann, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Jörg Heining, Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
Roman Klimke, Harvard University
Maria Polyakova, Stanford University and NBER
Holger Seibert, Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
2:45 pm
Adjourn