SI 2017 Aging

David M. Cutler and Jonathan S. Skinner, Organizers

July 24-28, 2017

Parkview Room

Royal Sonesta Hotel


Monday, July 24
10:15 am	Lauren L. Schmitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison David Weir, University of Michigan Genetic and Environmental Influences on Schooling and Lifetime Earnings
11:10 am	Daniel Barth, Federal Reserve Board of Governors Nicholas W. Papageorge, Johns Hopkins University and NBER Kevin Thom, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee Genetic Ability, Wealth, and Financial Decision-Making
12:05 pm	Lunch
1:05 pm	David Abrams, University of Pennsylvania Bhaven N. Sampat, Arizona State University and NBER Pharmaceutical Patent Citations and Real Value
2:00 pm	Joshua L. Krieger, Harvard University Trials and Terminations: Learning from Competitors' Failures in Drug Development
2:55 pm	Break
3:15 pm	Axel H. Börsch-Supan, Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy and NBER Michael D. Hurd, RAND Corporation and NBER Susann Rohwedder, RAND Corporation Saving Regret
4:10 pm	Adjourn
Tuesday, July 25
8:30 am	Coffee and pastries
9:00 am	Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Pascual Restrepo, Yale University and NBER Demographics and Robots
9:55 am	Joanna Lahey, Texas A&M University and NBER Douglas Oxley, University of Wyoming Discrimination at the Intersection of Age, Race, and Gender: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-field Experiment
10:50 am	Partha Bhattacharyya, National Institutes of Health NIH Funding for Health Economics
11:10 am	Break
11:30 am	Emma Aguila, University of Southern California Arie Kapteyn, University of Southern California and NBER Erik Meijer, University of Southern California Spill-Over Effects of a Randomized Controlled Trial for Older Adults
12:25 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Mark J. Borgschulte, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Heepyung Cho, Korea University Minimum Wages and Retirement
2:25 pm	Xiaoyan Lei, CCER Peking University Kathleen M. McGarry, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Xiaoting Sun, University of California at Los Angeles Yaohui Zhao, CCER Gender Differences in Parental Investments and Intergenerational Transfers in China
3:20 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Rafael Lalive, University of Lausanne Arvind Magesan, University of Calgary Stefan Staubli, University of Calgary and NBER How do Pension Wealth Shocks affect Working and Claiming?
4:25 pm	Adjourn
Wednesday, July 26
	Joint session with Social Security
9:00 am	Coffee and pastries
9:30am	Symposium on Recent Developments in Mortality Analysis Anne Case, Princeton University and NBER David M. Cutler, Harvard University and NBER Angus Deaton, Princeton University and NBER Stephen Goss, Social Security Administration ( slides)
11:20 am	Break
11:35 am	Alexander M. Gelber, University of California, San Diego and NBER Timothy J. Moore, Purdue University and NBER Alexander Strand, Social Security Administration Disability Insurance Income Saves Lives
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Francesca Carta, Bank of Italy Francesco D'Amuri, Bank of Italy Till M. von Wachter, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Workforce Aging, Pension Reforms, and Firm Dynamics
2:25 pm	Jasmina Hasanhodzic, Babson College Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Boston University and NBER Valuing Government Obligations When Markets Are Incomplete
3:40 pm	Adam Bee, U.S. Census Bureau Joshua Mitchell, U.S. Census Bureau Do older Americans have more income than we think?
4:35 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Thursday, July 27
8:30 am	Coffee and pastries
	Joint session with Health Care in Charles Suites
9:00 am	Michael Geruso, University of Texas at Austin and NBER Timothy J. Layton, University of Virginia and NBER Daniel Prinz, World Bank Screening in Contract Design: Evidence from the ACA Health Insurance Exchanges
10:00 am	Damon Jones, University of Chicago and NBER David Molitor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER Julian Reif, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER Selection, Medical Spending, and Productivity in Wellness Programs: Evidence from the Illinois Workplace Wellness Study
11:00 am	Break
11:30 am	Rebecca Mary Myerson, University of Wisconsin Madison Lisandro Colantonio, The University of Alabama at Birmingham Monika Safford, Weill Cornell Medical College David Meltzer, University of Chicago and NBER Chasing the Missing Diagnoses: Exploring the Consequences of Removing Barriers to Information
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Zack Cooper, Yale University and NBER Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University and NBER Nathan Shekita, Yale University Surprise! Emergency Physician Out-of-Network Billing in the United States
2:30 pm	Edward C. Norton, University of Michigan and NBER Jun Li, Syracuse University Anup Das, University of Michigan Lena Chen, University of Michigan Moneyball in Medicare
3:30 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Ajin Lee, University of California, Riverside How Do Hospitals Respond to Managed Care? Evidence from At-Risk Newborns
5:00 pm	Adjourn
Friday, July 28
8:00 am	Coffee and pastries
	Joint session with Health Care in Charles Suites
8:45 am	Partha Bhattacharyya, National Institutes of Health NIA Priorities
9:00 am	Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Mark Shepard, Harvard University and NBER Subsidizing Health Insurance For Low-Income Adults: Evidence From Massachusetts
10:00 am	Kenneth Brevoort, Federal Reserve Board Daniel Grodzicki, Pennsylvania State University Martin B. Hackmann, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Medicaid and Financial Health
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	Emily Gallagher, University of Colorado at Boulder Radhakrishnan Gopalan, Washington University, St. Louis Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Washington University in St. Louis The Effects of Health Insurance on Home Payment Delinquency: Evidence from the ACA Marketplace Subsidies
11:00 am	Break
11:30 am	Ethan Lieber, University of Notre Dame and NBER Lee Lockwood, University of Virginia and NBER Targeting with In-kind Transfers: Evidence from Medicaid Home Care
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Anna Godøy, University of California at Berkeley Venke F. Haaland, University of Stavanger Ingrid MS. Huitfeldt, University of Oslo Mark Votruba, Case Western Reserve University Waiting for Surgery: Effects on Health and Labor Supply
2:30 pm	Daniel LA. Avdic, Monash University Simon Decker, University of Duisburg-Essen Martin Karlsson, University of Duisburg-Essen A Claim a Day Keeps the Doctor Away? Premium Refunds and Forward Looking Behaviour in the German Private Health Insurance Market
3:30 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Bastian Ravesteijn, Erasmus University Rotterdam Eli Schachar, Harvard University The Impact of Cost Sharing for Mental Health Care
5:00 pm	Adjourn
	Funding for this conference was made possible, in part, by R13 AG70 from the National Institute on Aging. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention by trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.