Economics of Aging Program Meeting
Kathleen M. McGarry and Jonathan S. Skinner, Organizers
March 24, 2023
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA, and Zoom
| Thursday, March 23 | ||
| 7:00 pm | Dinner, The Royal Sonesta Hotel | |
| Friday, March 24 | ||
| 9:00 am |
Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Jetson Leder-Luis, Boston University and NBER David H. Howard, Emory University Theodore Caputi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dying or Lying? For-Profit Hospices and End of Life Care |
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| 9:45 am |
Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Erin Grela, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Madeline McKelway, Dartmouth College Frank Schilbach, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Garima Sharma, Princeton University Girija Vaidyanathan, Indian Institute of Technology Madras Depression and Loneliness Among the Elderly Poor |
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| 10:30 am | Break | |
| 10:50 am |
Mark Shepard, Harvard University and NBER Myles Wagner, Ohio State University Reducing Ordeals through Automatic Enrollment: Evidence from a Health Insurance Exchange |
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| 11:35 am |
Gopi Shah Goda, Stanford University and NBER Matthew Levy, London School of Economics Colleen Flaherty Manchester, University of Minnesota Aaron Sojourner, W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Joshua Tasoff, Claremont Graduate University Jiusi Xiao, Claremont Graduate University Are Retirement Planning Tools Substitutes or Complements to Financial Capability? |
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| 12:20 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:10 pm | Session on Social Security Claiming Behavior | |
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Svetlana Pashchenko, University of Georgia Ponpoje Porapakkarm, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (Tokyo) Accounting for Social Security Claiming Behavior |
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Kathleen McKiernan, Vanderbilt University Neha Bairoliya, University of Southern California Revisiting Retirement and Social Security Claiming Decisions |
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David Altig, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Boston University and NBER Victor Yifan Ye, Opendoor Technologies How Much Lifetime Social Security Benefits Are Americans Leaving on the Table? |
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| 2:40 pm | Adjourn | |