CALL FOR PAPERS
Conference on New Evidence for Understanding Economic Decisionmaking
Organized by the University of Michigan, Survey Research Center
September 5-6, 2008
Jackson Lake Lodge, WY
Households must make complex decisions concerning consumption and saving,
retirement, health care, financial investments, and purchase of insurance.
While the quality of decisions is difficult to measure there is
considerable evidence that in some situations individuals leave "money on
the table." This conference will bring together researchers presenting
new evidence from surveys, experiments (particularly field experiments),
and clinical studies on such economic decisionmaking and quantifying how
and why economic decisions differ from the predictions of the standard
economic model. Of particular interest is evidence on how cognition and
non-cognitive factors (e.g., personality, emotion) affect economic
decisionmaking and how economic decisionmaking and these factors interact
as individuals age or their health changes. We also encourage papers that
advance our knowledge of how to translate results from laboratory
experiments into survey questions in large population-based surveys such
as the HRS. Submissions from economists, psychologists, and other social
scientists and from neuroscientists are encouraged.
This conference is supported by the Program Project "Behavior on Surveys
and in the Economy Using the HRS" sponsored by the National Institute on
Aging. Conference co-organizers: Michael Hurd (Rand), Norbert Schwarz
(Michigan), Matthew Shapiro (Michigan), and Robert Willis (Michigan). The
conference will support costs of travel and lodging.
Completed papers and abstracts of work in progress will be considered.
Please send submissions by April 30, 2008 in the form of a PDF file to
Heather Hewitt
Survey Research Center
University of Michigan
Heatherh_at_isr.umich.edu
Received on Mon Mar 31 2008 - 08:39:05 EST
