NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2008

Social Insurance Workshop

Katherine Baicker and Raj Chetty, Organizers

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Skyline Suite, West Tower

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

July 22, 2008

PROGRAM

TUESDAY JULY 22:
	MORNING JOINT SESSION WITH LABOR STUDIES
8:15 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:45 am	AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT and NBER
	ERZO LUTTMER, Harvard University and NBER
	MATTHEW NOTOWIDIGDO, MIT
	What Good is Wealth without Health? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption
9:45 am	Break
10:00 am	ALAN KRUEGER, Princeton University and NBER
	ANDREAS MUELLER, Princeton University
	Job Search and Unemployment Benefits: New Evidence from Time Use Data
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	BARBARA PETRONGOLO, London School of Economics
	The long-term effects of job search requirements: Evidence from the UK JSA Reform
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	LI GAN, Texas A&M Univeristy
	LIXIN COLIN XU, The World Bank
	YANG YAO, Peking University
	Elections and Consumption Insurance: Evidence from Chinese Villages
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	MANOJ MOHANAN, Harvard University
	Consumption Smoothing and Household Responses: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Health Shocks
3:30 pm	JEFF KLING, Brookings Institution and NBER
	SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN, Harvard University and NBER
	ELDAR SHAFIR, Princeton University
	LEE VERMEULEN, University of Wisconsin - Madison
	MARIAN V. WROBEL, Harvard University
	Misperceived Prices: Medicare Drug Plan Choice
4:30 pm	Adjourn
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