NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2000

Social Insurance

Jonathan Gruber and Bruce Meyer, Organizers

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

August 3, 2000

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

THURSDAY, AUGUST 3:

8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts

9:00 AM V. JOSEPH HOTZ and GUIDO IMBENS, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

JACOB KLERMAN, RAND

The Long-Term Gains from GAIN: A Re-Analysis of the Impacts

of the California GAIN Program

10:00 AM REBECCA BLANK, University of Michigan and NBER

ROBERT SCHEONI, RAND

What Has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts on Welfare Participation, Employment, Income, Poverty, and Family Structure

11:00 AM Break

11:30 AM BRUCE MEYER, Northwestern University and NBER

JAMES X. SULLIVAN, Northwestern University

The Effects of Welfare Reform

12:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM EMMANUEL SAEZ, Harvard University and NBER

Optimal Income Transfer Programs: Participation Versus Intensity of Work

2:30 PM MARIANNE BERTRAND, Princeton University and NBER

DOUGLAS MILLER Princeton University

SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN, MIT and NBER

Public Policy and Extended Families: Evidence from South Africa

3:30 PM Break

4:00 PM DAVID AUTOR, MIT and NBER

MARK DUGGAN, University of Chicago and NBER

Disability Recipiency and the Decline in Unemployment

5:00 PM Adjourn

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