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	Genetic and Environmental Influences on Schooling and Lifetime Earnings
11:10 am	Genetic Ability, Wealth, and Financial Decision-Making
12:05 pm	Lunch
1:05 pm	Pharmaceutical Patent Citations and Real Value
2:00 pm	Trials and Terminations: Learning from Competitors' Failures in Drug Development
2:55 pm	Break
3:15 pm	Saving Regret
4:10 pm	Adjourn
Tuesday, July 25
8:30 am	Coffee and pastries
9:00 am	Demographics and Robots
9:55 am	Discrimination at the Intersection of Age, Race, and Gender: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-field Experiment
10:50 am	NIH Funding for Health Economics
11:10 am	Break
11:30 am	Spill-Over Effects of a Randomized Controlled Trial for Older Adults
12:25 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Minimum Wages and Retirement
2:25 pm	Gender Differences in Parental Investments and Intergenerational Transfers in China
3:20 pm	Break
3:30 pm	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	Disability Insurance Income Saves Lives
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Workforce Aging, Pension Reforms, and Firm Dynamics
2:25 pm	Valuing Government Obligations When Markets Are Incomplete
3:40 pm	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	Screening in Contract Design: Evidence from the ACA Health Insurance Exchanges
10:00 am	Selection, Medical Spending, and Productivity in Wellness Programs: Evidence from the Illinois Workplace Wellness Study
11:00 am	Break
11:30 am	Chasing the Missing Diagnoses: Exploring the Consequences of Removing Barriers to Information
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Surprise! Emergency Physician Out-of-Network Billing in the United States
2:30 pm	Moneyball in Medicare
3:30 pm	Break
4:00 pm	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	Subsidizing Health Insurance For Low-Income Adults: Evidence From Massachusetts
10:00 am	Medicaid and Financial Health
	and
	The Effects of Health Insurance on Home Payment Delinquency: Evidence from the ACA Marketplace Subsidies
11:00 am	Break
11:30 am	Targeting with In-kind Transfers: Evidence from Medicaid Home Care
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Waiting for Surgery: Effects on Health and Labor Supply
2:30 pm	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	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.