NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2007

 

Aging and Health Care Meetings

July 23 – July 27

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Parkview Room

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

 

 

MONDAY, JULY 23:

 

 

Aging Workshop

David Wise, Organizer

 

 

12:00 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

Richard Disney, University of Nottingham, UK

 

C. Emmerson and M. Wakefield, Institute for Fiscal Studies, London

 

Tax Reform and Retirement Saving Incentives: Evidence from the Introduction of Stakeholder Pensions in the UK

 

 

 1:50 pm

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Danish National Institute of Social Research

 

Evaluating Wage Subsidies for the Disabled – the Danish Flexjob Scheme

 

 

 2:40 pm

Break

 

 

 3:10 pm

Hendrik Juerges, University of Mannheim, Germany

 

Health Insurance Status and Physician-Induced Demand for Medical Services in Germany: New Evidence from Combined District and Individual Level Data

 

 

 4:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

TUESDAY, JULY 24:

 

 

Aging Workshop

David Wise, Organizer

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

Helen Levy, University of Michigan and NBER

 

David Weir, University of Michigan

 

Take-Up of Medicare Part D and the SSA Subsidy: Early Results from the Health and Retirement Survey

 

 

 9:50 am

Frank Lichtenberg, Columbia University and NBER

 

Why Has Longevity Increased Faster in Some States Than Others?

 

 

10:40 am

Break

 

 

11:10 am

TBA

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

Vicki Freeman, University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey

 

Rucker Johnson, UC, Berkeley

 

Jeannette Rogowski, University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey

 

Robert Schoeni, University of Michigan

 

Neighborhoods and the Health of Elderly Americans

 

 

 1:50 pm

Doug Almond, Columbia University and NBER

 

Lena Edlund, Columbia University

 

Hongbin Li and Junsen Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

Long-term Effects of the 1959-1961 China Famine: Mainland China and Hong Kong

 

 

 2:40 pm

Break

 

 

 3:10 pm

Jonathan Skinner, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

The Impact of Health and Health Care Expenditures on Future Retirement Security

 

 

 4:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25:

 

 

Social Security Workshop

(Joint Session with Public Economics)

Jeffrey Liebman and Andrew Samwick, Organizers

 

 

 8:15 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 8:45 am

JEFFREY R. BROWN, University of Illinois and NBER

 

MARCUS CASEY, University of Illinois

 

OLIVIA S. MITCHELL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Who Values the Annuity from Social Security?  New Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

 

 

 9:45 am

Break

 

 

10:00 am

JOHN AMERIKS, The Vanguard Group

 

ANDREW CAPLIN, New York University and NBER

 

STEVEN LAUFER, New York University

 

STIJN VAN NIEUWERBURGH, New York University and NBER

 

The Joy of Giving or Assisted Living? Using Strategic Surveys to Separate Bequest and Precautionary Motives

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

JOSEPH T. MARCHAND, University of Alberta

 

The Evolution of Private Pensions, Risk-Sharing, and the Variance in Assets

 

 

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:15 pm

ANDREW SAMWICK, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

Changing Progressivity as a Means of Risk Protection in Investment-Based Social Security Reform

 

 

 2:15 pm

Break

 

 

 2:30 pm

DAVID E. BLOOM, DAVID CANNING, GUNTHER FINK, and

 

JOCEYLYN E. FINLAY, Harvard University

 

Demographic Change, Social Security Systems and Labor Supply

 

 

 3:35 pm

TILL VON WACHTER, Columbia University and NBER

 

JAE SONG and JOYCE MANCHESTER, Social Security Administration

 

Recent Changes in Social Security Disability Rolls and the Employment Effects of Disability Insurance: An Analysis using 25 Years of Longitudinal Administrative Records

 

 

 4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 26:

 

 

Health Care/Productiviity/Aging Joint Workshop

Ernst Berndt, David Wise, David Cutler and Alan M. Garber, Organizers

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

AMITABH CHANDRA, Harvard University and NBER

 

DOUGLAS STAIGER, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

The Economics of Treatment Disparities in Healthcare

 

 

 9:50 am

Break

 

 

10:05 am

DANA GOLDMAN , RAND Corporation and NBER

 

JOHN A. ROMLEY, RAND Corporation

 

The Cost of Quality in Hospitals:  A Revealed-Preference Approach

 

 

10:55 am

DARIUS LAKDAWALLA and NEERAJ SOOD, RAND Corporation and NBER

 

The Welfare Effects of Public Drug Insurance

 

 

12:00 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

Panel of speakers

 

 

 1:50 pm

Break

 

 

 2:05 pm

FRANK R. LICHTENBERG, Columbia University and NBER

 

The Effect of Chemotherapy Innovation on Cancer Survival, 1991-2003:  State-level Evidence from the SEER-Medicare Linked Database

 

 

 2:55 pm

Break

 

 

 3:10 pm

JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER

 

DAVID RODRIGUEZ, MIT

 

How Much Uncompensated Care Do Doctors Provide?

 

 

 4:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

FRIDAY, JULY 27:

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

KYNA FONG, Stanford University

 

MICHAEL SCHWARZ, Yahoo! Research and NBER

 

Toward an Efficient Mechanism for Prescription Drug Procurement

 

 

 9:50 am

Break

 

 

10:05 am

LEEMORE DAFNY, Northwestern University and NBER

 

Are Health Insurance Markets Competitive?  A Test of Direct Price Discrimination

 

 

10:55 am

Break

 

 

11:10 am

RICHARD G. FRANK, Harvard University and NBER

 

KARINE LAMIRAUD, University of Lausanne

 

Choice, Price Competition and Complexity in Markets for Health Insurance

 

 

12:00 pm

RICHARD HIRTH, MARC TURENNE, JACK WHEELER, QING PAN, and JOSEPH MESSANA, University of Michigan

 

Provider Monitoring and Pay-for-Performance When Multiple Providers Affect Outcomes:  An Application to Renal Dialysis

 

 

 1:00 pm

Lunch and Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

6/25/07