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SUMMER INSTITUTE 2013

 

Aging, Social Security and Health Care Workshops

July 22 – July 26

 

David A. Wise, Organizer

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Parkview Meeting Room

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

MONDAY,  JULY 22:

 

AGING WORKSHOP

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

9:00 am

Arie Kapteyn, University of Southern California and NBER

 

James P. Smith, RAND Corporation

 

Arthur van Soest, Tilburg University

 

Life Satisfaction around the World

 

 

9:50 am

Daniel J. Benjamin, Cornell University and NBER

 

Ori Heffetz, Cornell University and NBER

 

Miles S. Kimball, University of Michigan and NBER

 

Alex Rees-Jones, Cornell University

 

Can Marginal Rates of Substitution Be Inferred From Happiness Data? Evidence from Residency Choices

 

 

10:40 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

Gopi Shah Goda, Stanford University and NBER

 

Damon Jones, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Colleen Flaherty Manchester, University of Minnesota

 

Retirement Plan Type and Employee Mobility: The Role of Selection and Incentive Effects

 

 

11:50 am

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

Thomas Davidoff, University of British Columbia

Jake Wetzel, University of British Columbia

 

Do Reverse Mortgage Borrowers Use Credit Ruthlessly?

 

 

1:50 pm

Joan Costa Font, London School of Economics

 

Richard Frank, Harvard Medical School and NBER

 

Katherine Swartz, Harvard School of Public Health

 

Housing Assets and Access to Long Term Care

 

 

2:40 pm

Break

 

 

3:00 pm

Weicheng Lian, Princeton University

 

Long-Term Dynamics of Housing Price and Quantity

 

 

3:50 pm

Adjourn

TUESDAY, JULY 23:

 

AGING WORKSHOP CONTINUED

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

9:00 am

Felix Reichling, Congressional Budget Office

 

Kent Smetters, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Optimal Annuitization with Stochastic Mortality Probabilities

 

 

9:50 am

Alexander L. Brown, Texas A&M University and NBER

 

Joanna Lahey, Texas A&M University and NBER

 

Small Victories: Creating Intrinsic Motivation in Savings and Debt Reduction

 

 

10:40 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

David Blau, Ohio State University

 

Pensions, Household Saving, and Welfare: A Dynamic Analysis of Crowd Out

 

 

11:50 am

Lunch

 

           

1:00 pm

Florian Heiss, University of Mainz

 

Adam Leive, University of Southern California

 

Daniel L. McFadden, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

 

Joachim Winter, University of Munich

 

Plan Selection in Medicare Part D: Evidence from Administrative Data

 

 

1:50 pm

Silvia H. Barcellos, RAND Corporation

 

Mireille Jacobson, RAND Corporation and NBER

 

Medicare and Medical Expenditure Risk

 

 

2:40 pm

Break

 

           

3:00 pm

Michael D. Hurd, RAND Corporation and NBER 

 

Pierre-Carl Michaud, RAND Corporation

 

Susann Rohwedder, RAND Corporation

 

The Lifetime Risk of Nursing Home Use

 

 

3:50 pm

Adjourn

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 24:

 

 

SOCIAL SECURITY WORKSHOP (joint with Aging and Public Economics)

 

 

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

8:30 am

Norma B. Coe, University of Washington

 

Kalman Rupp, Social Security Administration

 

Does Access to Health Insurance Influence Work Effort among Disability Insurance Recipients?

 

 

9:20 am

Jonathan C. Cribb, Institute for Fiscal Studies

 

Carl Emmerson, Institute for Fiscal Studies

 

Gemma C. Tetlow, Institute for Fiscal Studies

 

Incentives, Shocks or Signals: Labour Supply Effects of Increasing the Early Retirement Age for Women

 

 

10:10 am

Break

 

 

10:30 am

David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

Nicole Maestas, RAND Corporation

 

Kathleen Mullen, RAND Corporation

 

Alexander Strand, Social Security Administration

 

 

 

Does Delay Cause Decay? The Effect of Administrative Decision Time on the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Disability Applicants

 

 

11:20 am

Alexander M. Gelber, University of Pennsylvania

 

Damon Jones, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Daniel W. Sacks, University of Pennsylvania

 

Earnings Adjustment to the Social Security Earnings Test

 

 

12:10 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:10 pm

David Neumark, University of California at Irvine and NBER

 

Joanne Song, University of California at Irvine

 

Do Stronger Age Discrimination Laws Make Social Security Reforms More Effective?

 

 

2:00 pm

Frank N. Caliendo, Utah State University

 

Roozbeh Hosseini, Arizona State University

 

Social Security is NOT a Substitute for Annuities

 

 

2:50 pm

Break

 

 

3:10 pm

Magne Mogstad, University College London

 

Family Welfare Cultures

 

 

4:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

6:00 pm

Clambake, Royal Sonesa Hotel

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 25:


Joint Aging and Health Care Workshop  - Jon Gruber, Organizer

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 


9:00 am


Matthew J. Notowidigdo, University of Chicago and NBER
Craig Garthwaite, Northwestern University and NBER
Tal Gross, Columbia University
Public Health Insurance, Labor Supply, and Employment Lock

 


10:00 am


Katherine Ho, Columbia University and NBER
Robin S.. Lee, New York University
Insurer Competition and Negotiated Hospital Prices

 

11:00 am

Break

 


11:30 am


Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Jason Abaluck, Yale University and NBER
Ashley Teres Swanson, University of Pennsylvania
Prescription Drug Utilization Under Medicare Part D: A Dynamic Perspective

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 


1:30 pm


Aviv Nevo, Northwestern University and NBER
Gautam Gowrisankaran, University of Arizona and NBER
Robert Town, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Mergers When Prices Are Negotiated: Evidence from the Hospital Industry

 


2:30 pm


David Chan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Organizational Structure and Moral Hazard among Emergency Department Physicians

 

3:30 pm

Break

 


4:00 pm


Alice Chen, University of Chicago
Emily Oster, University of Chicago and NBER
Heidi L. Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Why is Infant Mortality in the US Higher than in Europe?
(not available for download)

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

FRIDAY, JULY 26:

Joint Aging and Health Care Workshop – Jon Gruber, Organizer

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 


9:00 am


Mariana Carrera, Case Western Reserve University
Sofia Villas-Boas, University of California at Berkeley
Generic Aversion and Observational Learning in the Over-the-Counter Drug Market

 

10:00 am

Ben Handel, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Igal Hendel, Northwestern University
Michael D. Whinston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Equilibria in Health Exchanges: Adverse Selection vs. Reclassification Risk

 


11:00 am


Break

 


11:30 am


Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University and NBER
Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Adam Sacarny, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER
Healthcare Exceptionalism? Productivity and Allocation in the U.S. Healthcare Sector

 


12:30 pm


Lunch

 


1:30 pm


Janet Currie, Princeton University and NBER
W. Bentley MacLeod, Columbia University and NBER
Diagnosis and Unnecessary Procedure Use

 


2:30 pm


Martin Hackmann, Yale University
Jonathan T. Kolstad, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Amanda E. Kowalski, Yale University and NBER
Adverse Selection and an Individual Mandate: When Theory Meets Practice

 

3:30 pm

Break

 


4:30 pm


David Cesarini, New York University
Erik Lindqvist, Stockholm School of Economics
Robert Östling, Stockholm University
Bjorn Wallace, Cambridge University
Estimating the Causal Impact of Wealth on Health: Evidence from Swedish Lottery Players

 

5:30 pm

Adjourn