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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2011

Aging, Social Security and Health Care Workshops

Aging & Social Security Session Papers

July 25 - July 29, 2011

David A. Wise, Organizer

Parkview Room

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

Funding for this conference was made possible, in part by 2 R13 AG11570-17A1 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.

Monday, July 25:
AGING WORKSHOP
9:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:30 am	Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER
	Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
	Stephen Ryan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
	Paul Schrimpf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Mark Cullen, Stanford University
	Selection on Moral Hazard in Health Insurance
10:20 am	Norma B. Coe, Boston College and NBER
	Courtney H. Van Houtven, Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center
	Long-Term Care Decisions: Using Informal Caregiving to Tease Out the Difference Between Genetics and Preferences
11:10 am	Break
11:30 am	John Beshears, Stanford University and NBER
	James J. Choi, Yale University and NBER
	David Laibson, Harvard University and NBER
	Brigitte C. Madrian, Harvard University and NBER
	Katherine L. Milkman, University of Pennsylvania
	Using Implementation Intentions Prompts to Enhance Influenza Vaccination Rates
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Elena Stancanelli, THEMA University Cergy Pontoise
	Arthur van Soest, RAND Corporation
	Retirement and Time Use in Couples: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
2:20 pm	Melissa Boyle, Holy Cross University
	Joanna Lahey, Texas A&M University
	Spousal Labor Market Effects from Government Health Insurance: Evidence from a Veterans Affairs Expansion
3:10 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Maria Fitzpatrick, Stanford University
	How Much Do Teachers Value Their Retirement Benefits?
4:20 pm	Adjourn
Tuesday, July 26:
7:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:00 am	Antoine Bozio, Institute for Fiscal Studies
	Carl Emmerson, Institute for Fiscal Studies
	Gemma C. Tetlow, Institute for Fiscal Studies
	Do the Rich Really Save More? Evidence from Lifetime Earnings and Consumption Data in the United Kingdom
8:50 am	Michael D. Hurd, RAND Corporation and NBER
	Susann Rohwedder, RAND Corporation
	Expectations and Behaviors by Households During the Great Recession
9:40 am	Break
10:00 am	Anneke Exterkate, Erasmus University
	Robin L. Lumsdaine, American University and NBER
	How Survey Design Affects Inference Regarding Health Perceptions and Outcomes
10:50 pm	Joyce Manchester, Congressional Budget Office
	Jae Song, Social Security Administration
	Till von Wachter, Columbia University and NBER
	The Persistent Effect of Layoffs on Labor Supply and Claiming of Social Security Benefits
11:30 pm	Lunch
12:30 pm	Adeline Delavande, RAND Corporation
	Michael D. Hurd, RAND Corporation and NBER
	Francisco Martorell, RAND Corporation
	Costs of Dementia
1:20 pm	Norma B. Coe, Boston College and NBER
	Kelly L. Haverstick, Boston College
	Measuring the Spill-over to Disability Insurance due to the Rise in the Full Retirement Age
2:10 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Jeffrey Brown, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NBER
	Arie Kapteyn, RAND Corporation
	Olivia S. Mitchell, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
	Framing Effects and Expected Social Security Claiming Behavior
3:20 pm	James M. Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
	Steven F. Venti, Dartmouth College and NBER
	David A. Wise, Harvard University and NBER
	The Composition and Draw-down of Wealth in Retirement
4:10	Break
4:45 pm	PANEL ON AGE DISCRIMINATION Ballroom A, West Tower
	Moderator
	David Card, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
	Panelists
	Roland Fryer, Harvard University and NBER
	Joanna Lahey, Texas A&M University
	Dan Silverman, University of Michigan and NBER
	Till von Wachter, Columbia University and NBER
	Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago
5:45 pm	Adjourn
Wednesday, July 27:
SOCIAL SECURITY WORKSHOP (Joint with Aging and Public Economics)
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Samuel Preston, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
	Why Has the US Fallen Behind in Life Expectancy?
9:50 am	Gopi Shah Goda, Stanford University and NBER
	John Shoven, Stanford University and NBER
	Sita N. Slavov, Occidental College
	How Well Are Social Security Recipients Protected From Inflation??
10:40 am	Break
11:00 am	Nicole Maestas, RAND Corporation
	Kathleen Mullen, RAND Corporation
	Alexander Strand, Social Security Administration
	Does Disability Insurance Receipt Discourage Work? Using Examiner Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of SSDI Receipt
11:50 am	David M. Cutler, Harvard University and NBER
	Ellen Meara, Harvard Medical School
	Seth Richards-Shubik, Carnegie Mellon University
	Health Shocks and Disability Transitions among Near-elderly Workers
12:40 pm	Lunch
1:40 pm	Jonathan Skinner, Dartmouth College and NBER
	Ellen Meara, Harvard Medical School
	Lower Back Pain and the Transition to Disability
2:30 pm	John Beshears, Stanford University
	James J. Choi, Yale University
	David Laibson, Harvard University and NBER
	Brigitte C. Madrian, Harvard University and NBER
	Jung Sakong, NBER
	Self Control and Liquidity: How to Design a Commitment Contract
3:20 pm	Break
3:40 pm	Jeffrey B. Liebman, Harvard University and NBER
	Erzo F.P. Luttmer, Dartmouth College and NBER
	Would People Behave Differently If They Better Understood Social Security? Evidence From a Field Experiment
4:30 pm	Adjourn
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, JULY 28 AND 29 JOINT WITH HEALTH CARE WORKSHOP
Thursday, July 28:
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Karine Lamiraud, University of Lausanne Pierre Stadelmann, University of Lausanne Strategic Pricing Behaviors in the Presence of Consumer Inertia: The Case of Health Insurance
10:00 am	Anupam Jena, Harvard University Tomas Philipson, University of Chicago and NBER Endogenous Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care Technology Adoption
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	Pinar Karaca-Mandic, University of Minnesota and NBER Jean Abraham, University of Minnesota What Affects Medical Loss Ratios in the Individual Market? What Affects Premiums, Claims and Medical Loss Ratios in the Individual Market? Pinar Karaca-Mandic, Roger Feldman and Peter Graven, University of Minnesota The Role of Agents and Brokers in the Market for Health Insurance
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Martin Gaynor, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Carol Propper, University of Bristol Stephan Seiler, London School of Economics Free to Choose: Reform and Demand Response in the British National Health Service
2:30 pm	Amanda Kowalski, Yale University and NBER Budget Set Model of Health Insurance: Estimating the Tradeoff Between Risk Protection and Moral Hazard with a Nonlinear
3:30 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Sarah Taubman Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Joseph Newhouse, Harvard University and NBER Katherine Baicker, Harvard University and NBER The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the first year
5:00 pm	Adjourn
Friday, July 29:
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Joseph Doyle, Massachusetts of Technology and NBER John Graves, Harvard University Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts of Technology and NBER Samuel Kleiner, Cornell University and NBER Hospital Costs and Outcomes in a Causal Framework
10:00 am	David Meltzer, University of Chicago and NBER Jeanette Chung, University of Chicago Coordination, Switching Costs and the Division of Labor in General Medicine: An Economic Explanation for the Emergence of Hospitalists in the United States
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	Peter Huckfeldt, RAND Corporation Neeraj Sood, University of Southern California and NBER Jose Escarce, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER David Grabowski, Harvard Medical School Joseph Newhouse, Harvard University and NBER Provider Reimbursement, Treatment Intensity, and Patient Outcomes: Evidence from the Home Health Interim and Prospective Payment System & The Effect of Prospective Payment on Admission and Treatment Policy: Evidence from Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Jeffrey Clemens, Harvard University Joshua Gottlieb, Harvard University How Does Medical Practice Respond to Prices? Evidence from Shocks to Medicare Reimbursement Rates
2:30 pm	Leemore Dafny, Northwestern University and NBER Subramaniam Ramanarayanan, University of California at Los Angeles Are For-Profit Insurers Different?
3:30 pm	Adjourn