Thursday, July 22
10:30 am

Genes, Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) and Economic Outcomes

Yeongmi Jeong, Purdue University
Nicholas W. Papageorge, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
Meghan Skira, University of Georgia and NBER
Kevin Thom, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
11:00 am

New Evidence on the Financial Symptoms of Dementia

Joanne Hsu, University of Michigan
Lauren Hersch Nicholas, University of Colorado School of Medicine
11:30 am

The Health Costs of Cost-Sharing

Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University and NBER
Evan Flack, Stanford University
Ziad Obermeyer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
12:00 noon
Funding Opportunities at the National Institute on Aging
Partha Bhattacharyya, National Institutes of Health
12:15 pm
Brief presentations

Can Income Buy Health? Evidence from Social Security Benefit Discontinuities and Medicare Claims

Jacob Berman, Department of the Treasury

Peer Effects and Health Care Consumption: Evidence from Spousal Health Shocks

Zirui Song, Harvard University
12:25 pm
Breakout sessions & break
1:30 pm

What Do Happiness Data Mean? Theory and Survey Evidence

Daniel J. Benjamin, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Jakina Debnam Guzman, Amherst College
Marc Fleurbaey, Paris School of Economics
Ori Heffetz, Cornell University and NBER
Miles S. Kimball, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER
2:00 pm

Caregiving and Labor Force Participation: New Evidence from Administrative Data

Yulya Truskinovsky, Syracuse University
Nicole Maestas, Harvard University and NBER
Matt Messel, Social Security Administration
2:30 pm

The Impact of Covid-19 on Older Workers' Employment and Social Security Spillovers

Gopi Shah Goda, Stanford University and NBER
Emilie Jackson, Michigan State University
Lauren H. Nicholas, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Sarah See Stith, University of New Mexico
3:00 pm

Balancing Commitment and Liquidity: Empirical Evidence from Mandatory Retirement Saving

Leora Friedberg, University of Virginia
Adam Leive, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Wenqiang Cai, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
3:30 pm
Adjourn
Friday, July 23
Morning joint with Household Finance
10:30 am

Measuring Valuation of Liquidity with Penalized Withdrawals (slides)

David Coyne, Department of the Treasury
Itzik Fadlon, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Tommaso Porzio, Columbia University and NBER

Discussant:
Taha Choukhmane, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
11:15 am

Demographics, Wealth, and Global Imbalances in the Twenty-First Century

Adrien Auclert, Stanford University and NBER
Hannes Malmberg, University of Minnesota-Madison
Frederic Martenet, Stanford University
Matthew Rognlie, Northwestern University and NBER

Discussant:
Christina Patterson, University of Chicago and NBER
12:00 pm

CenHRS: Linking the HRS to Census Business Data or Finding Needles in Haystacks: Multiple-Imputation Record Linkage Using Machine Learning (slides)

John M. Abowd, Cornell University and NBER
Joelle Abramowitz, University of Michigan
Margaret Levenstein, University of Michigan
Kristin McCue, U.S. Census Bureau
Dhiren Patki, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Trivellore Raghunathan, University of Michigan
Ann Rodgers, retired - do not send invitations
Matthew D. Shapiro, University of Michigan and NBER
Nada Wasi, Puey Ungphakorn Institute for Economic Research (PIER)
Dawn Zinsser, University of Michigan
12:15 pm
Brief presentations

Why Are Older Workers Moving Less While Working Longer?

Brian J. Asquith, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Why Does Disability Insurance Enrollment Increase During Recessions? Evidence from Medicare

Colleen Carey, Cornell University and NBER
Nolan H. Miller, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
David Molitor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
12:25 pm
Breakout sessions & break
1:30 pm

Discount Rates, Mortality Projections, and Money's Worth Calculations for US Individual Annuities

James M. Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Adam Solomon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2:00 pm

Spillover Effects of Medicare Policy on Medicaid: Evidence From the Nursing Home Industry

Adriana Corredor-Waldron, North Carolina State University
2:30 pm

The Broad Decline in Health and Human Capital of Americans Born after 1947

Nicholas F. Reynolds, University of Essex
3:00 pm

The Impact of Disability Income on Healthcare Utilization and Health: Evidence from the VA's Disability Compensation Program

David Silver, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
Jonathan Zhang, Duke University and NBER
3:30 pm
Adjourn