Subject: FW: Call for Papers: IZA Workshop: Long-Term Care
From: Robert Pollak (POLLAK@WUSTL.EDU)
Date: Wed Jan 31 2007 - 09:45:51 EST
Dear NBER Colleague: The message listed below describes an opportunity
that may be of interest to you.
Bob Pollak
Washington University
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Dear IZA Research Fellows and Affiliates,
We invite you to submit a paper for the following event:
Title: IZA Workshop: Long-Term Care
Organizers: Ana Rute Cardoso (IZA), Robert Pollak (Washington
University,
St. Louis and IZA)
Place: Bonn, Germany
Date: September 28, 2007 - September 29, 2007
Submission Deadline: March 15, 2007
Notification of Acceptance: March 31, 2007
Complete Papers Due: August 31, 2007
Description:
Demographic trends - increases in the number and proportion of older
adults - dictate that the financial, medical, and long-term care needs
of
the elderly will increase substantially in coming decades. Other
demographic and societal trends - fewer children, rising nonmarital
fertility, high divorce rates, and the increasing labor force
participation of women - suggest a diminishing role for the family as a
provider of long-term care and, hence, an expanding role for government
and for market alternatives.
Discussions of long-term care most often focus on the nursing home
industry and on individual's purchases of insurance to pay nursing home
costs. The role of the family has generally been neglected. The extent
to which government long-term care programs "crowd out" individual and
family efforts will depend on the incentives created by government
programs and how individuals and families respond to them. Understanding
the process by which families come to assume the responsibility and
share the burden of caring for disabled elderly family members is
essential for designing and evaluating long-term care policies.
This conference will explore the relationships between government
policy, market alternatives, and individual and family behaviour. It
will have an inter-disciplinary scope, aiming at a fruitful interaction
among different scientific fields.
We seek high quality academic work from fields such as economics,
sociology, psychology and medical sciences.
We are particularly interested in studies that provide internationally
comparable analyses of countries with very different long-term care
policies and programs.
Researchers interested in participating should submit a paper or
extended abstract by March 15, 2007, using the online application link
see below.
For more information, please refer to the conference website at:
http://www.iza.org/conference_files/LTC2007
The online application form is available at:
http://www.iza.org/conference_files/formApplication?conf_id=1351
Please do not hesitate to contact me for any questions regarding this
event.
Best regards,
Ticke Maurer
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Ticke Maurer, Event Manager
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IZA, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany
Phone: +49-228-38 94 120 Fax:
E-mail: maurer@iza.org Web: www.iza.org
Office: Schaumburg-Lippe-Str. 7/9, D-53113 Bonn
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Robert A. Pollak
Hernreich Distinguished Professor of Economics
Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the John M. Olin School
Campus Box 1133
Washington University Voice: (314) 935-4918
One Brookings Drive Fax: (314) 935-6359
St. Louis MO 63130-4899 pollak@wustl.edu
