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