THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Survey Research Center
CALL FOR PAPERS
Conference on Understanding Economic Decisionmaking
September 20-21, 2013
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 Decisionmaking about saving, retirement, health or healthcare, long-term
care, and their interactions;
o Adequacy of provision for economic security in retirement from the
perspectives of individual decisionmaking and institutional arrangements;
o Non-survey approaches such as administrative data, experiments (field or
lab), and cognitive interviews that enhance or inform large
population-based surveys such as the HRS or related surveys;
o Innovative Web-based data collections and analyses;
o Pioneering methods of eliciting preference parameters (e.g., risk
tolerance or time discounting) whether in household surveys or other modes;
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. 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 April 22, 2013 in the form of a PDF file to the following
address:
Carol Bowen, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan
cbowen_at_umich.edu.
Received on Tue Mar 12 2013 - 07:57:44 EDT
