SI 2017 Aging

David M. Cutler and Jonathan S. Skinner, Organizers

July 24-28, 2017

Parkview Room

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

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

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, Boston 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, Stony Brook University 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, Harvard University 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 at Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Julian Reif, University of Illinois at 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, University of Michigan
Anup Das, University of Michigan
Lena Chen, University of Michigan

Moneyball in Medicare
3:30 pm
Break
4:00 pm
Ajin Lee, Michigan State University

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
and
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.