CALL FOR PAPERS
Conference on Understanding Economic Decisionmaking
September 23-24, 2011
Aspen, CO
Households must make complex decisions concerning consumption and saving,
retirement, health care, financial investments, and purchase of insurance
and annuities. This conference will bring together researchers presenting
new evidence from surveys, experiments, administrative data, and clinical
studies on such economic decisionmaking and exploring how and why economic
decisions might require a broader framework than supplied by standard
economic models. Submission of papers in the following areas of research
is particularly encouraged:
o Lessons for understanding decisionmaking or institutional arrangements
resulting from the lasting effects of the financial crisis;
o Decisionmaking about health or healthcare;
o Non-survey approaches such as experiments, cognitive interviews, and
linkages to administrative data that enhance or inform large
population-based surveys such as the HRS and related surveys;
o Measuring cognition and aging-related cognitive decline on surveys and
applying these measures to understanding decisionmaking; and
o New theoretical approaches that address complex decisionmaking
especially as related to cognition and aging.
Submissions from economists, psychologists, and other social scientists
are encouraged.
This conference is sponsored by the Program Project "Behavior on Surveys
and in the Economy Using: HRS and Beyond" supported by the National
Institute on Aging grant 2-P01-AG026571. Participants in the conference
will be invited to suggest projects for pilot projects supported by the
Program Project. This conference is held in conjunction with a meeting of
the RAND-Michigan Internet interviewing project supported by NIA grant
R01-AG020717. Submissions of papers with interest cutting across these
two projects are welcomed. The conference will support costs of travel
and lodging.
Conference co-organizers: Michael Hurd (RAND), Matthew Shapiro
(Michigan), Robert Willis (Michigan), and Andrew Caplin (NYU).
Completed papers and detailed abstracts of work in progress will be
considered. Please send submissions with contact information for all
authors by May 16, 2011 in the form of a PDF file to the following
address:
Carol Bowen, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan
cbowen_at_isr.umich.edu
Received on Thu Apr 14 2011 - 12:10:07 EDT
