NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2005

 

Social Insurance

Katherine Baicker and Raj Chetty, Organizers

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

July 25, 2005

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 25:

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER

 

DAN HUNGERMAN, University of Notre Dame

 

Faith-Based Charity and Crowd Out During the Great Depression

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

JEFFREY KLING, Princeton University and NBER

 

Temporary Earnings Replacement Accounts

 

 

11:15 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

BRADLEY HEIM, Duke University

 

BRUCE MEYER, University of Chicago and NBER

 

A Structural Model of Welfare, Taxes, Labor Supply, and Program Participation

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:30 pm

AMY FINKELSTEIN, Harvard University and NBER

 

ROBIN MCKNIGHT, University of Oregon and NBER

 

What Did Medicare Do (And Was it Worth it)?

 

 

 2:30 pm

Break

 

 

 3:00 pm

KATE BUNDORF, Stanford University and NBER

 

KOSALI SIMON, Cornell University and NBER

 

The Effect of Rate Regulation on Demand for Supplemental Health Insurance

 

 

 4:00 pm

Break

 

 

 4:15 pm

RAJ CHETTY, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

A General Formula for the Optimal Level of Social Insurance

 

 

 5:00 pm

Adjourn