SI 2018 Aging

David M. Cutler and Jonathan S. Skinner, Organizers

July 23-27, 2018

Charles Room

Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Monday, July 23
10:20 am	Silvia H. Barcellos, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER Leandro Carvalho, University of Southern California Patrick Turley, University of Southern California Education can Reduce Health Disparities Related to Genetic Risk of Obesity: Evidence from a British Reform
11:10 am	Jason Fletcher, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER Atheendar Venkataramani, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Early Life Exposures, Gene-Environment Interactions, and Cognitive Decline in Old Age
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Tatyana Deryugina, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER David Molitor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER Does When You Die Depend on Where You Live? Evidence from Hurricane Katrina
1:50 pm	Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University and NBER Heidi L. Williams, Dartmouth College and NBER Place-Based Drivers of Mortality: Evidence from Migration
2:40 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Jessica A. Laird, Mathematica Policy Research Torben Heien Nielsen, University of Copenhagen The Long Term Effects of Neighborhoods on Health: Evidence From Movers in Denmark
3:50 pm	Silvia H. Barcellos, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER Mireille Jacobson, University of Southern California and NBER Helen G. Levy, University of Michigan and NBER Medicaid versus Private Coverage for Low-Income Families: What are the Tradeoffs between Cost-Sharing and Access to Care?
4:40 pm	Adjourn
Tuesday, July 24
9:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:30 am	Axel H. Börsch-Supan, Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy and NBER Courtney Coile, Wellesley College and NBER Social Security and Retirement Around the World: The Effect of Reforms on Retirement Incentives and Behavior
10:20 am	Jeffrey R. Brown, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER James M. Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER David P. Richardson, TIAA Institute New Evidence on the Choice of Retirement Income Strategies: Annuities vs. Other Options
11:10 am	Break
11:30 am	Matteo Paradisi, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance Giulia Bovini, Banca d'Italia The Transitional Labor Market Consequences of a Pension Reform
12:20 pm	Lunch
1:20 pm	Itzik Fadlon, University of California, San Diego and NBER Shanthi P. Ramnath, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Patricia Tong, RAND Corporation Mortality Risk and Household Insurance in the U.S.
2:10 pm	Fabrizio Mazzonna, Universitá della Svizzera Italiana Franco Peracchi, EIEF Self-assessed Cognitive Abilities and Financial Wealth: Are People Aware of Their Cognitive Decline?
3:00 pm	Break
3:15 pm	Xin Zhang, Beijing Normal University Xiaobo Zhang, Peking University Xi Chen, Yale University Smog in Aging Brains: The Impact of Exposure to Air Pollution on Cognitive Performance
4:05 pm	Adjourn
Wednesday, July 25
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Joint session with Social Security
9:00 am	Kathleen J. Mullen, University of Oregon and NBER Stephanie L. Rennane, RAND Corporation The Effect of Unconditional Cash Transfers on the Return to Work of Permanently Disabled Workers
9:50 am	Andreas Haller, Norwegian School of Economics Stefan Staubli, University of Calgary and NBER Josef Zweimueller, University of Zurich Tightening Disability Screening Or Reducing Disability Benefits? Evidence and Welfare Implications
10:40 am	Break
11:00 am	Symposium on Disability Insurance Karen Glenn, Social Security Administration Stephen Goss, Social Security Administration Nicole Maestas, Harvard University and NBER Jeffrey B. Liebman, Harvard University and NBER
12:20 pm	Lunch
1:20 pm	Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Ohto Kanninen, Labor Institute for Economic Research The Effect of Relabeling and Incentives on Retirement: Evidence from a Pension Reform
2:10 pm	Antoine Bozio, Paris School of Economics Thomas Breda, Paris School of Economics Julien Grenet, Paris School of Economics Tax-benefit linkage and Incidence of Social Security Contributions: Evidence from France
3:00 pm	Break
3:15 pm	Kathleen McKiernan, Vanderbilt University Welfare Impacts of Social Security Reform: The Case of Chile in 1981
4:05 pm	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 Mechanisms behind Retirement Saving Behavior: Evidence from Administrative and Survey Data
4:55 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Thursday, July 26
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Joint Sessions with Health Care
9:00 am	Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Ami Ko, Georgetown University Partial Rating Area Offering in the ACA Marketplaces: Facts, Theory and Evidence
10:00 am	Kate Bundorf, Duke University and NBER Maria Polyakova, Stanford University and NBER Ming Tai-Seale, University of California, San Diego Delegating Decision-Making to the Machine: Experimental Evidence from Health Insurance
10:30 am	Thomas P. Hoe, Cornell University Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER George P. Stoye, Institute for Fiscal Studies Saving Lives by Tying Hands: The Unexpected Effects of Constraining Health Care Providers
11:00 am	Break
11:30 am	Nikhil Agarwal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Itai Ashlagi, Stanford University Eduardo M. Azevedo, University of Pennsylvania Clayton Featherstone, University of Pennsylvania Ömer Karaduman, Stanford University Market Failure in Kidney Exchange
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Diego A. Comin, Dartmouth College and NBER Jonathan S. Skinner, Dartmouth College and NBER Douglas O. Staiger, Dartmouth College and NBER Overconfidence and the Diffusion of Medical Technology
2:30 pm	Michael Darden, Johns Hopkins University and NBER Ian McCarthy, Emory University and NBER Eric Barrette, Medtronic Hospital Pricing and Public Payments
3:00 pm	Judit Vall Castelló, Universitat de Barcelona Arnau Juanmarti, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Guillem Lopez Casasnovas, Universitat Pompeu Fabra The Deadly Effects Of Losing Health Insurance
3:30 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Molly Schnell, Northwestern University and NBER Physician Behavior in the Presence of a Secondary Market: The Case of Prescription Opioids
5:00 pm	Adjourn
Friday, July 27
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Joint Sessions with Health Care
9:00 am	Keith Marzilli Ericson, Boston University and NBER Justin R. Sydnor, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER Liquidity Constraints and the Value of Insurance
10:00 am	Ralph Koijen, University of Chicago and NBER Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Columbia University and NBER Financing the War on Cancer
10:30 am	Frank R. Lichtenberg, Columbia University and NBER The Long-Run Impact of New Medical Ideas on Cancer Survival and Mortality
11:00 am	Break
11:30 am	David C. Chan Jr, Stanford University and NBER Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Triage Judgments in the Emergency Department
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Adam Leive, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Health Insurance Design Meets Tax Incentives for Saving: Consumer Responses to Complex Contracts
2:30 pm	Yufeng Li, Capital Medical University Beijing Juanjuan Meng, Peking University Changcheng Song, University of Florida Kai Zheng, University of California at Irvine Information Avoidance and Medical Screening: A Field Experiment in China
3:00 pm	Toshiaki Iizuka, University of Tokyo Hitoshi Shigeoka, Simon Fraser University and NBER Free for Children? Patient Cost-sharing and Health Care Utilization
3:30 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Elizabeth L. Munnich, University of Louisville Michael R. Richards, Cornell University and NBER Administrative Pricing, Incentive Alignment, and Medical Market Competition
5:00 pm	Adjourn