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Women Working Longer Pre-Conference
September 19, 2015
Claudia Goldin, Organizer
NBER
2nd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
PROGRAM
Friday, September 18
7:30 pm Dinner
Dante Restaurant (Royal Sonesta Hotel)
40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA
Saturday, September 19
8:15 am Shuttle
leaves Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER
8:30 am Continental Breakfast
8:50 am Opening
Remarks
9:00 am Labor
Force Transitions of Women over the Lifecycle, I
Claudia Goldin, Harvard University and
NBER
Lawrence Katz, Harvard University and NBER
Women Working
Longer: Facts and Some Explanations
Joshua Mitchell, U.S.
Census Bureau
Experience,
Tenure, and Leave-Taking of American Women
10:00 am Break
10:15 am Labor Force Transitions of Women over the
Lifecycle, II
Annamaria Lusardi, George Washington University and
NBER
Olivia Mitchell, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Older
Womens Labor Market Attachment and Financial Security: A Cross-Cohort
Perspective
Maria Fitzpatrick,
Cornell University and NBER
Teaching,
Teachers Pensions and Retirement across Recent Cohorts of College Graduate
Women
11:15 am Break
11:30 am Family
Issues I: Joint Retirement and Couple Conflict
Janice Compton, University of Manitoba
Robert Pollak, Washington University in St. Louis and
NBER
Survivor Benefits and Early Claiming of
Social Security
Nicole Maestas, Harvard University and NBER
The Return to Work and Womens Employment
Decisions
12:30 pm Lunch
1:15 pm Family
Issues II: Caregiving and Marital Stability
Sean Fahle, SUNY Buffalo
Kathleen McGarry, University of California at Los
Angeles and NBER
Women
Working Longer: Labor Market Implications of Providing Family Care
Claudia Olivetti, Boston
College and NBER
Dana Rotz, Mathematica Policy Research
Changes in Marriage
and Divorce as Drivers of Employment and Retirement of Older Women
2:15 pm Break
2:30 pm Social
Security Regulatory Changes
Alexander Gelber, University of California at
Berkeley and NBER
Adam Isen,
Department of the Treasury
Jae Song, Social Security Administration
The Role
of Social Security Benefits in the Increase of Older Womens Employment Rate:
Evidence from the Notch Cohorts
3:00 pm Break
3:15 pm Motivations
for Later-Life Employment: Pulls and Pushes
Joanna Lahey, Texas A&M University and NBER
Age and Race Discrimination and Womens Labor Force
Participation
Phyllis Moen, University of Minnesota
Erik Kojola, University of Minnesota
Erin Kelly, MIT
4:15 pm Wrap-up
4:30 pm Adjourn