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	Education can Reduce Health Disparities Related to Genetic Risk of Obesity: Evidence from a British Reform
11:10 am	Early Life Exposures, Gene-Environment Interactions, and Cognitive Decline in Old Age
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Does When You Die Depend on Where You Live? Evidence from Hurricane Katrina
1:50 pm	Place-Based Drivers of Mortality: Evidence from Migration
2:40 pm	Break
3:00 pm	The Long Term Effects of Neighborhoods on Health: Evidence From Movers in Denmark
3:50 pm	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	Social Security and Retirement Around the World: The Effect of Reforms on Retirement Incentives and Behavior
10:20 am	New Evidence on the Choice of Retirement Income Strategies: Annuities vs. Other Options
11:10 am	Break
11:30 am	The Transitional Labor Market Consequences of a Pension Reform
12:20 pm	Lunch
1:20 pm	Mortality Risk and Household Insurance in the U.S.
2:10 pm	Self-assessed Cognitive Abilities and Financial Wealth: Are People Aware of Their Cognitive Decline?
3:00 pm	Break
3:15 pm	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	The Effect of Unconditional Cash Transfers on the Return to Work of Permanently Disabled Workers
9:50 am	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	The Effect of Relabeling and Incentives on Retirement: Evidence from a Pension Reform
2:10 pm	Tax-benefit linkage and Incidence of Social Security Contributions: Evidence from France
3:00 pm	Break
3:15 pm	Welfare Impacts of Social Security Reform: The Case of Chile in 1981
4:05 pm	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	Partial Rating Area Offering in the ACA Marketplaces: Facts, Theory and Evidence
10:00 am	Delegating Decision-Making to the Machine: Experimental Evidence from Health Insurance
10:30 am	Saving Lives by Tying Hands: The Unexpected Effects of Constraining Health Care Providers
11:00 am	Break
11:30 am	Market Failure in Kidney Exchange
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Overconfidence and the Diffusion of Medical Technology
2:30 pm	Hospital Pricing and Public Payments
3:00 pm	The Deadly Effects Of Losing Health Insurance
3:30 pm	Break
4:00 pm	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	Liquidity Constraints and the Value of Insurance
10:00 am	Financing the War on Cancer
10:30 am	The Long-Run Impact of New Medical Ideas on Cancer Survival and Mortality
11:00 am	Break
11:30 am	Triage Judgments in the Emergency Department
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Health Insurance Design Meets Tax Incentives for Saving: Consumer Responses to Complex Contracts
2:30 pm	Information Avoidance and Medical Screening: A Field Experiment in China
3:00 pm	Free for Children? Patient Cost-sharing and Health Care Utilization
3:30 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Administrative Pricing, Incentive Alignment, and Medical Market Competition
5:00 pm	Adjourn