NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2006

Aging and Health Care Workshops

July 24–July 28, 2006

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Parkview Room

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

MONDAY, JULY 24:
Aging Workshop
David Wise, Organizer
10:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
	EMIL APOSTOLOV, Brookings Institution
10:20 am	WILLIAM GALE, Brookings Institution
	GREGORY MILLS, Abt Associates
	RHIANNON PATTERSON, Abt Associates
	What Do Individual Development Accounts Do? Evidence from a Controlled Experiment
11:10 am	ANNAMARIA LUSARDI, Dartmouth College and NBER
	OLIVIA MITCHELL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
	Finanicial Literacy and Planning: Implications for Retirement Wellbeing
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	SUMIT AGARWAL, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
	JOHN DRISCOLL, Federal Reserve Board
	XAVIER GABAIX, MIT and NBER
	DAVID LAIBSON, Harvard University and NBER
	Financial Mistakes Over the Life Cycle
1:50 pm	JONATHAN SKINNER, Dartmouth College and NBER
	Are You Saving Enough for Retirement?
2:40 pm	Break
3:10 pm	JOHN BOUND, University of Michigan and NBER
	TODD STINEBRICKNER, University of Western Ontario
	TIMOTHY WAIDMAN, Urban Institute
	Health, Economic Resources and the Work Decisions of Older Men
4:00 pm	Adjourn
TUESDAY, JULY 25:
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	JESSICA WOLPAW REYES, Amherst College
	The Effect of College Financial Aid Rules on the Allocation of Savings
9:50 am	RICARDO REIS, Princeton University and NBER
	A Cost-Of-Living Dynamic Price Index, with an Application to Indexing Retirement Accounts
10:40 am	Break
11:10 am	COURTNEY COILE and PHILLIP LEVINE, Wellesley College and NBER
	Labor Market Shocks and Retirement: Do Government Programs Matter?
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	MICHAEL HURD, RAND and NBER
	SUSAN ROHWEDDER, RAND
	Life-Cycle Consumption Paths in Old Age
1:50 pm	RICHARD BURKHAUSER, Cornell University
	ROBERT WEATHERS II, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
	Has the Americans with Disability Act Changed Workplace Accommodations? Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
2:40 pm	Break
3:10 pm	TATIANA ANDREYEVA, ARIE KAPTEYN, JIM SMITH, and ARTHUR VAN SOEST,
	RAND Corporation
	Self Reported Disability and Reference Groups
4:00 pm	Adjourn
WEDNESDAY, JULY 26:
Social Security Workshop
(Joint Session with Public Economics)
Jeffrey Liebman and Andrew Samwick, Organizers
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	LOUIS KAPLOW, Harvard University and NBER
	Myopia and the Effect of Social Security and Capital Taxation on Labor Supply
10:00 am	ALAN AUERBACH and RONALD LEE, UC Berkeley and NBER
	Notional Defined Contribution Pension Systems in a Stochastic Context: Design and Stability
11:00 am	Break
11:30 am	DAVID CUTLER and JEFFREY LIEBMAN, Harvard University and NBER
	SEAMUS SMYTH, Harvard University
	How Fast Should the Social Security Retirement Age Rise?
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	BRUCE MEYER, University of Chicago and NBER
	The Change in Earnings, Income, and Consumption Following Disability
2:30 pm	Break
3:00 pm	MARIO CATALAN, JAIME GUAJARDO and ALEXANDER W. HOFFMAISTER, International Monetary Fund
	Coping with Spain’s Aging: Retirement Rules and Incentives
4:00 pm	JEAN-OLIVIER HAIRAULT, University of Paris
	FRANCOIS LANGOT, University of Maine
	THEPTHIDA SOPRASEUTH, University of Evry
	On the Interaction Between Retirement and the Employment of Older Workers
5:00 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
THURSDAY, JULY 27:
Health Care/Aging joint Workshop
Alan Garber, Organizer
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	DAVID H. HOWARD, Emory University
	SUSAN BUSCH, Yale University
	Understanding Recent Trends in Chronic Disease Treatment Rates: Are we Getting Sicker or Getting Screened?
9:50 am	NICOLE MAESTAS, RAND Corporation
	MATHIS SCHROEDER, Cornell University
	DANA GOLDMAN, RAND Corporation and NBER
	Price Variation in Markets with Homogenous Goods: The Case of Medigap
10:40 am	Break
Health Care Workshop
10:55 am	M. KATE BUNDORF, Stanford University and NBER
	MELINDA HENNE, Stanford University
	LAURENCE BAKER, Stanford University and NBER
	Health Insurance, Infertility Treatment, and Birth Outcomes
11:45 am	KARINE LAMIRAUD and ALBERTO HOLLY, IEMS
	ESTELLE MARTIN, University Hospital of Switzerland
	KONRADE VON BREMEN, IEMS
	The Impact of Information on Patient Preferences in Different Delivery Patterns (Prescription versus OTC Drugs)
12:35 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	JON GRUBER and Invited Panelists
	Massachusetts Health Insurance Plan
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	RUCKER JOHNSON, UC, Berkeley
	ROBERT SCHOENI, University of Michigan
	Economic Status in Childhood, Birth Weight, and Adult Health and Labor Market Outcomes
3:20 pm	Break
3:35 pm	MICHAEL LAW and KAREN GRÉPIN, Harvard University
	Newer is Not Always Better
4:25 pm	Adjourn
FRIDAY, JULY 28:
Health Care/Productivity joint Workshop
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	GAUTAM GOWRISANKARAN, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
	VIVIAN HO, Rice University
	ROBERT TOWN, University of Minnesota and NBER
	Causality, Learning, and Forgetting in Surgery
9:50 am	Break
10:05 am	EMMA HALL, Department of Health
	CAROL PROPPER, University of Bristol
	JOHN VAN REENEN, London School of Economics
	The Impact of Skills and the Labor Market on Hospital Productivity and Quality: Evidence from a Panel of Hospitals
10:55 am	Break
11:10 am	RANDALL LUTTER, Food and Drug Administration
	ARTHUR E. HASS, Food and Drug Administration – currently retired
	ALLAN BEGOSH, JOHN GOLDSMITH, and DENNIS HILL,
	Food and Drug Administration Improvements in the Effectiveness of FDA’s Drug Safety Program: Insights from the Timing of Label Warnings
12:00 pm	Lunch and Adjourn
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