NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2002

Social Security Working Group

Jeffrey Liebman and Andrew Samwick, Organizers

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA

July 31, 2002

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM



WEDNESDAY, JULY 31



8:00 AM Coffee and Pastries



JOINT MEETING WITH AGING AND PUBLIC ECONOMICS



8:30 AM DAVID NEUMARK, Michigan State and NBER

ELIZABETH POWERS, University of Illinois

The Supplemental Security Income Program and Incentives to Claim Social Security Retirement Early:

Empirical Evidence from Matched SIPP and Social Security Administrative Files



9:30 AM Break



9:45 AM KEVIN LANG, Boston University and NBER

The Incidence of the Payroll Tax:

A Test of Competing Models of Wage Determination



10:45 AM Break



11:00 AM ALAN GUSTMAN, Dartmouth and NBER

THOMAS STEINMEIER, Texas Technical University

The Social Security Early Entitlement Age in a Structural Model of

Retirement and Wealth

12:00 N Lunch



1:00 PM BRIGITTE MADRIAN, University of Chicago and NBER

Defined Contribution Pensions:

Plan Rules, Participant Decisions, and the Path of Least Resistance

(Joint with JAMES CHOI, DAVID LAIBSON, and ANDREW METRICK)



2:00 PM OLIVIA MITCHELL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

MARIE-EVE LACHANCE, University of Pennsylvania

Understanding Individual Account Guarantees



3:00 PM Break



3:30 PM DAVID PATTISON, Social Security Administration

Differential Mortality and the Value of Social Security



4:30 PM Adjourn 6/25/02