National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2010

 

Aging, Social Security and Health Care Workshops

 

David A. Wise, Organizer

 

July 26 - July 30, 2010

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Parkview Room

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

 

MONDAY, JULY 26:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AGING WORKSHOP

 

 

 

 

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 am

John Beshears, Harvard University

 

 

 

James Choi, Yale University

 

 

 

David Laibson and Brigitte Madrian, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 

Why Do Defaults Work?

 

 

 

 

 

 

9:50 am

Daniel Benjamin, Cornell University and NBER

 

 

 

Ori Heffetz and Alex Rees-Jones, Cornell University

 

 

 

Miles Kimball, University of Michigan and NBER

 

 

 

Do People Seek to Maximize Happiness? Evidence from New Surveys

 

 

 

 

 

 

10:40 am

Break

 

 

 

 

 

 

11:10 am

Emma Aguila, RAND

 

 

 

Arie Kapteyn, RAND and NBER

 

 

 

Experimental Analysis of the Health and Well-being Effects of a Non-contributory Social Security Program

 

 

 

 

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

 

1:00 pm

Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

 

Amy Finkelstein, MIT and NBER

 

 

 

Iuliana Pascu, MIT

 

 

 

Mark Cullen, Stanford University

 

 

 

How General Are Risk Preferences? Choices under uncertainty in different domains

 

 

 

 

 

 

1:50 pm

Gopi Shah Goda, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

 

Colleen Manchester, University of Minnesota

 

 

 

Incorporating Employee Heterogeneity into Default Rules for Retirement Plan Selection

 

 

 

 

 

 

2:40 pm

Break

 

 

 

 

 

 

3:00 pm

Michael Hurd, RAND and NBER

 

 

 

Susann Rohwedder, RAND

 

 

 

Consumption Smoothing During the Financial Crisis

 

 

 

 

 

 

3:50 pm

Courtney Coile and Phillip Levine, Wellesley College and NBER

 

 

 

Recessions, Reeling Markets, and Retiree Well-Being

 

 

 

 

 

 

4:40 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

TUESDAY, JULY 27:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AGING WORKSHOP Continued

 

 

 

 

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 am

Lee Lockwood, University of Chicago

 

 

 

The Importance of Bequest Motives: Evidence from Long-term Care Insurance and the Pattern of Saving

 

 

 

 

 

 

9:50 am

Emily Oster, University of Chicago

 

 

 

Genetic Adverse Selection in Long Term Care and Life Insurance: Evidence from Huntington Disease

 

 

 

 

 

 

10:40 am

Break

 

 

 

 

 

 

11:10 am

Heidi Williams, Harvard University

 

 

 

Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation: Evidence from the Human Genome

 

 

 

 

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SOCIAL SECURITY WORKSHOP (JOINT WITH AGING AND PUBLIC ECONOMICS)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1:00 pm

David Cutler and Ellen Meara, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 

Seth Richards, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

 

Healthy Life Expectancy: Estimates and Implications for Retirement Age Policy

 

 

 

 

 

 

1:50 pm

Thomas Davidoff, University of British Columbia

 

 

 

Financing Retirement with Stochastic Mortality and Endogenous Sale of a Home

 

 

 

 

 

 

2:40 pm

Break

 

 

 

 

 

 

3:00 pm

Bruce Meyer, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

 

James Sullivan, University of Notre Dame

 

 

 

Consumption and Income of the Poor Elderly Since 1960

 

 

 

 

 

 

3:50 pm

Paul Bingley, Danish National Centre for Social Research

 

 

 

Peder Pedersen, IZA-Institute for the Study of Labor

 

 

 

Pension Reform, Early Retirement and Health and Mortality after 30 Years

 

 

 

 

 

 

4:40 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 28:

 

 

 

 

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SOCIAL SECURITY WORKSHOP (JOINT WITH AGING AND PUBLIC ECONOMICS) Continued

 

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 am

John Campbell and Luis Viceira, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 

Adi Sunderam, Harvard University

 

 

 

Inflation Bets or Deflation Hedges? The Changing Risks of Nominal Bonds

 

 

 

 

 

 

9:50 am

Till von Wachter, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

 

Jae Song, Social Security Administration

 

 

 

The Effects of Layoffs and Local Unemployment on the Incidence of Disability Applications and Labor Force Participation

 

 

 

 

 

 

10:40 am

Break

 

 

 

 

 

 

10:55 am

Luc Behaghel, Paris School of Economics

 

 

 

David Blau, Ohio State University

 

 

 

Framing Social Security Reform: Behavioral Responses to Changes in the Full Retirement Age

 

 

 

 

 

 

11:45 am

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

 

12:40 pm

Raj Chetty and John Friedman, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 

Tore Olsen, Harvard University

 

 

 

Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

 

Adjustment Costs, Firm Responses, and Labor Supply Elasticities: Evidence from Danish Tax Records

 

 

 

 

 

 

1:30 pm

Nicole Maestas, RAND

 

 

 

Na Yin, CUNY Baruch College

 

 

 

The Labor Supply Effects of Disability Insurance Work Disincentives: Evidence from the Automatic Conversion to Retirement Benefits at Full Retirement Age

 

 

 

 

 

 

2:20 pm

Break

 

 

 

 

 

 

2:35 pm

Stuart Adam, Antoine Bozio, and Carl Emmerson, Institute for Fiscal Studies

 

 

 

Reforming Disability Insurance in the UK: Evaluation of the Pathways to Work Programme

 

 

 

 

 

 

3:25 pm

Perry Singleton II, Syracuse University

 

 

 

The Effective Target of the Social Security Disability Benefits Reform Act of 1984

 

 

 

 

 

 

4:15 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

6:30 pm

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

 

 

 

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 29:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JOINT MEETING WITH THE AGING AND HEALTH CARE GROUPS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 

 

 

 

 9:00 am

Darius Lakdawalla and Neeraj Sood, University of Southern California and NBER

 

 

 

Qian Gu, University of Southern California

 

 

 

Pharmaceutical Advertising and Medicare Part D

 

 

 

 

 

 

10:00 am

Susan Busch, Yale University

 

 

 

Ezra Golberstein, Harvard University

 

 

 

Ellen Meara, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

FDA and ABCs: Unintended Consequences of Antidepressant Warnings on Academic Achievement

 

 

 

 

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

 

 

 

11:30 am

Laurence Baker, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

 

Physician Acquisition of MRI, Use of MRI, and an Estimate of the Effects of MRI Procedures on Spending

 

 

 

 

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

 

1:30 pm

Erin Johnson, UC, Berkeley

 

 

 

Ability, Learning and the Career Path of Cardiac Specialists

 

 

 

 

 

 

2:30 pm

Stephen T. Parente, University of Minnesota

 

 

 

Robert Town, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

 

 

The Impact of Retail Clinics on Cost, Utilization and Welfare

 

 

 

 

3:30 pm

Break

 

 

 

 

4:00 pm

Jason Brown, Department of the Treasury

 

 

 

Mark Duggan, University of Maryland and NBER

 

 

 

Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University and NBER

 

 

William Woolston, Stanford University

 

Cost and Selection in Private Medicare Advantage Plans: Evidence from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey

 

 

FRIDAY, JULY 30:

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

9:00 am

Martin Gaynor, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

 

Carol Propper, University of Bristol

 

Rodrigo Moreno. Imperial College

 

Death by Market Power Reform, Competition and Patient Outcomes in the National Health Service

 

 

10:00 am

Jonathan Kolstad, University of Pennsylvania

 

Amanda E. Kowalski, Yale University and NBER

 

The Impact of an Individual Health Insurance Mandate on Hospital and Preventive Care: Evidence from Massachusetts

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

Gautam Gowrisankaran, University of Arizona and NBER

 

Claudio Lucarelli, Cornell University

 

Philip Schmidt-Dengler, London School of Economics

 

Robert Town, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

Government Policy and the Dynamics of Market Structure: Evidence from Critical Access Hospitals

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:30 pm

Frank Lichtenberg, Columbia University and NBER

 

Has Medical Innovation Reduced Cancer Mortality?

 

2:30 pm

Daron Acemoglu and Amy Finkelstein, MIT and NBER

 

Matthew J. Notowidigdo, MIT

 

Income and Health Spending: Evidence from Oil Price Shocks

 

 

3:30 pm

Adjourn