NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2000

Social Security Working Group

Joint with Aging and Public Economics

Jeffrey Liebman and Andrew Samwick, Organizers

August 2, 2000

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

8:00 AM Coffee and Doughnuts

8:30 AM CASEY MULLIGAN, University of Chicago and NBER

Induced Retirement, Social Security, and the Pyramid Mirage

9:30 AM AJAY SHAH, IGIDR

Issues in Pension System Reform in India

10:00 AM Break

10:30 AM STEPHEN GOSS, Social Security Administration

Trends in the US Disability Insurance Program

11:15 AM JULIE CULLEN and JOHN BOUND, University of Michigan and NBER

LUCIE SCHMIDT, University of Michigan

The Welfare Implications of Increasing DI Benefit Generosity

12:15 PM Lunch

1:15 PM DOUGLAS ELMENDORF, Department of the Treasury

JEFFREY LIEBMAN, Harvard University and NBER

Social Security Reform and Fiscal Policy in an Era of Budget Surpluses

2:15 PM MARTIN FELDSTEIN, Harvard University and NBER

ELENA RANGUELOVA, Harvard Universtiy

A New Approach to Risk in Social Security Reform

3:15 PM Break

3:30 PM ALAN GUSTMAN, Dartmouth College and NBER

THOMAS STEINMEIER, Texas Tech University

How Effective Is Redistribution Under The Social Security Benefit Formula?

4:30 PM MICHAEL BRIEN, University of Virginia

STACY DICKERT-CONLIN, Syracuse University

DAVID WEAVER, Social Security Administration

Widows Waiting to Wed: (Re)Marriage and Economic Incentives in

Social Security Widow Benefits

5:30 PM Adjourn

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