Aging Program Meeting

Kathleen M. McGarry and Jonathan S. Skinner, Organizers

March 29, 2019

NBER, 2nd Floor Conference Room, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, March 28
7:00 pm
Dinner
Bambara Restaurant
25 Edwin Land Boulevard (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Cambridge, MA
Friday, March 29
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Péter Hudomiet, RAND Corporation, Senior Economist
Michael D. Hurd, RAND Corporation and NBER
Susann Rohwedder, RAND Corporation

The Lifetime Risk of Living with Dementia for Six Months, One, Two, or Five Years
9:45 am
Julie Bynum, University of Michigan

The Diagnosis and Prevalence of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias in Clinical Practice
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am
Jay Bhattacharya, Stanford University
Dean R. Lillard, The Ohio State University and NBER
Su H. Shin, The University of Alabama

Understanding the Correlation between Alzheimer's Disease Polygenic Risk, Wealth, and the Composition of Wealth Holdings
11:45 am
Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University and NBER

Innovation and the Economics of Alzheimer's Disease
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
Amanda E. Kowalski, University of Michigan and NBER

Behavior Within a Clinical Trial and Implications for Mammography Guidelines (slides)
2:15 pm
Ryan Brown, University of Colorado, Denver
Duncan Thomas, Duke University and NBER

On the Long Term Effects of the 1918 U.S. Influenza Pandemic
3:00 pm
Simon Jäger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Benjamin Schoefer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Josef Zweimüller, University of Zurich

Marginal Jobs and Job Surplus: A Test of the Efficiency of Separations
3:45 pm
Adjourn