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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC. 

SI 2016 Aging 

David M. Cutler, and Jonathan S. Skinner, Organizers 

July 25-29, 2016 

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Parkview Room

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

 

Monday, July 25

10:15 am

Nicole Maestas, Harvard University and NBER
Kathleen Mullen, RAND Corporation
David Powell, RAND Corporation
Till M. von Wachter, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
Jeffrey B. Wenger, RAND Corporation
American Working Conditions

11:05 am

Daniel K. Fetter, Wellesley College and NBER
Lee Lockwood, Northwestern University and NBER
Government Old-Age Support and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Old Age Assistance Program

11:55 am

Lunch

1:00 pm

David M. Cutler, Harvard University and NBER
Wei Huang, Harvard University
Adriana Lleras-Muney, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
Economic Conditions and Mortality: Evidence from 200 Years of Data

1:50 pm

Ruixue Jia, University of California at San Diego
Hyejin Ku, University College London
The Price of the East Asian Miracle: Generational Cultural Shift and Elderly Suicide

2:40 pm

Break

3:00 pm

Itzik Fadlon, University of California at San Diego and NBER
Torben Heien Nielsen, University of Copenhagen
Intra-Household Dependencies in Health and Health Behaviors

3:50 pm

Adjourn

Tuesday, July 26

8:30 am

Coffee and pastries

9:00 am

Gopi Shah Goda, Stanford University and NBER
Matthew Levy, London School of Economics
Colleen Flaherty Manchester, University of Minnesota
Aaron Sojourner, University of Minnesota
Joshua Tasoff
The Role of Time Preferences and Exponential-Growth Bias in Retirement Savings

9:50 am

Daniel J. Benjamin, University of Southern California and NBER
Mark Fontana
Miles S. Kimball, University of Michigan and NBER
Reconsidering Risk Aversion

10:40 am

Partha Bhattacharyya, National Institutes of Health
NIH Funding for Health Economics

11:00 am

Break

11:30 am

Lorenz Kueng, Northwestern University and NBER
Evgeny Yakovlev, Acumen LLC
Long-Run Effects of Public Policies: Endogenous Alcohol Preferences and Life Expectancy in Russia

12:20 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm

Sumit Agarwal, National University of Singapore
Jessica Pan, National University of Singapore
Wenlan Qian, National University of Singapore
Age of Decision: Pension Savings Withdrawal and Consumption and Debt Response

2:20 pm

Paul Bingley, The Danish National Centre for Social Research
Alessandro Martinello, Lund University
The Effect of Schooling on Wealth Accumulation Approaching Retirement

3:10 pm

Adjourn

Wednesday, July 27

 

Joint with PESS organized by Jeffrey Liebman

9:30 am

Silvia Garcia-Mandico, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Pilar García-Gómez, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Anne Gielen, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Owen O'Donnell, University of Macedonia
Who Can Go Back to Work? Employment Effects of Disability Benefits Cuts by Diagnosis

10:20 am

Dayanand S. Manoli, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Andrea Weber,
Vienna University
The Effects of the Early Retirement Age on Retirement Decisions

11:10 am

Break

11:40 am

Alexander M. Gelber, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Timothy J. Moore, George Washington University and NBER
Alexander Strand, Social Security Administration
The Effect of Disability Insurance Payments on Beneficiaries’ Earnings

12:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm

Marguerite Burns, University of Wisconsin
Laura Dague, Texas A&M University
The Effect of Expanding Medicaid Eligibility on Supplemental Security Income Program Participation

2:20 pm

Xi Chen, Yale University
Lipeng Hu, Peking University
Jody Sindelar, Yale University and NBER
Leaving Money on the Table? Social Pension Enrollment and Well-being of the Aging Population in China

3:10 pm

Break

3:25 pm

Xavier Gabaix, Harvard University and NBER
Behavioral Macroeconomics via Sparse Dynamic Programming

4:15 pm

Adjourn

4:30 pm

Martin Feldstein Lecture

Thursday, July 28

8:30 am

Coffee and pastries

9:00 am

Thomas DeLeire, Georgetown University and NBER
Andre Chappel, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Kenneth Finegold, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Emily Gee, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Do Individuals Respond to Cost-Sharing Subsidies in their Selections of Marketplace Health Insurance Plans?
 

10:00 am

Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Jason Abaluck, Yale University and NBER
Addressing Choice Inconsistencies in Choice of Health Insurance Plans
 

11:00 am

Break

11:30 am

Pietro Tebaldi, Stanford University
Estimating Equilibrium in Health Insurance Exchanges: Price Competition and Subsidy Design Under the ACA
 

12:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm

Amanda Starc, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Robert Town, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Internalizing Behavioral Externalities: Benefit Integration in Health Insurance

2:30 pm

Leemore Dafny, Northwestern University and NBER
Kate Ho, Columbia University and NBER
Robin S. Lee, Harvard University and NBER
Price Effects of Cross-Market Combinations: Theory and Evidence from Hospital Markets

3:30 pm

Break

4:00 pm

Nicolas R. Ziebarth, Cornell University
Stefan Pichler, ETH Zurich
The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes: Testing for Contagious Presenteeism and Shirking Behavior

5:00 pm

Adjourn

Friday, July 29

8:00 am

Coffee and pastries

8:15 am

Partha Bhattacharyya from the National Institute on Aging will talk about NIA's funding priorities and funding opportunities for health economics

9:00 am

Benjamin Friedrich, Yale University
Martin Hackmann, Pennsylvania State University
Parental Leave Programs, Nurse Shortages, and Patient Health

10:00 am

David W. Silver, University of California at Berkeley
Haste or Waste? Peer Pressure and the Distribution of Marginal Returns to Health Care
 

11:00 am

Break

11:30 am

Diane E. Alexander, Princeton University
How do Doctors Respond to Incentives? Unintended Consequences of Paying Doctors to Reduce Costs

12:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm

Zack Cooper, Yale University
Amanda E. Kowalski, Yale University and NBER
Eleanor N. Powell, University of Wisconsin-Madison
What Does a Hospital Do with Eighteen Million Dollars? Evidence From the Passage of Medicare Part D

2:30 pm

Scott Barkowski, Clemson University
The Effect of Specialist Cost Information on Primary Care Physician Referral Patterns

3:30 pm

Adjourn

Funding for this conference was made possible, in part, by R13 AG011570 from the National Institute on Aging. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention by trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.