NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2004

 

Social Security Working Group

 

Jeffrey Liebman, Organizer

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

August 4, 2004

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

TUESDAY, AUGUST 3:

 

 

 6:00 p.m.

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4:

 

 

 8:30 a.m.

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

JOINT SESSION WITH AGING AND PUBLIC ECONOMICS

 

 

 9:00 a.m.

MICHAEL BAKER, University of Toronto and NBER

 

JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER

 

KEVIN MILLIGAN, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

Retirement Income Security and Well-Being in Canada

 

 

10:00 a.m.

SUSANN ROHWEDDER and KRISTIN KLEINJANS, RAND Corporation

 

Dynamics of Individual Information about Social Security

 

 

11:00 a.m.

Break

 

 

11:30 a.m.

MARTIN FELDSTEIN, Harvard University and NBER

 

Reducing Risk of Investment-Based Social Security Reform

 

 

12:30 p.m.

Lunch

 

 

  1:30 p.m.

OLIVIA MITCHELL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

CASSIO TURRA, University of Pennsylvania

 

The Impact of Health Status and Out-of-Pocket Medical Expenditures on Annuity Valuation

 

 

   2:30 p.m.

DIRK KRUEGER, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

FELIX KUBLER, Stanford University

 

Pareto Improving Social Security Reform when Financial Markets are Incomplete!?

 

 

  3:30 p.m.

Break

 

 

 4:00 p.m.

SHINICHI NISHIYAMA, Congressional Budget Office

 

KENT SMETTERS, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Does Social Security Privatization Produce Efficiency Gains??

 

 

 5:00 p.m.

Adjourn

 

 

5/18/04