SI 2025 Economics of Social Security
Organized by Manasi Deshpande and James M. Poterba
July 23, 2025
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd, Cambridge, MA

Wednesday, July 23

8:45 am

Coffee and Pastries

9:15 am

Does Stricter Disability Screening Lead to Improved Targeting on Long-term Health and Employment Outcomes?

Chiara Campana, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Pierre Koning, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Maarten Lindeboom, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

10:00 am

Reskilling and Resilience

Anders Humlum, University of Chicago and NBER
Pernille Plato, University of Copenhagen

10:45 am

Break

11:00 am

Panel Discussion: Challenges of Long-Term Social Security Forecasting
Moderator: James Poterba, MIT and NBER
Molly Dahl, Congressional Budget Office
Sophie Shin, Penn Wharton Budget Model
Mark Warshawsky, American Enterprise Institute
Sven Sinclair and Polina Vlasenko, Social Security Administration

12:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm

From Pensions to Personnel: The Incentive Effects of Retirement Benefits on Retention

Kristy Kim, University of California, Berkeley
Caleb K. Wroblewski, University of California, Berkeley

1:45 pm

The Impacts of Increasing Social Security Retirement Ages: Varied Responses Across Occupations

Lindsay Jacobs, University of Wisconsin - Madison

2:30 pm

Break

2:45 pm

Saving Responses to Mandatory Pension Plans

David Burgherr, University of Zurich

3:30 pm

Employee Exodus: The Impact of Government Downsizing on Benefit Access

Sydney Gordon, University of California, Irvine

4:15 pm

Adjourn