NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2003

 

Aging Workshops

 

July 28- August 1, 2003

 

David Wise, Organizer

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 28:

 

12:00 N            Lunch

 

 1:00 PM          JOHN RUST, University of Maryland and NBER

            MOSHE BUCHINSKY, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

            HUGO BENITEZ-SILVA, SUNY-Stony Brook

            How Large are the Classification Errors in the Social Security Disability Award Process

 

            RICHARD DISNEY, CARL EMMERSON and MATTHEW WAKEFIELD,

Institute for Fiscal Studies

            Ill-health and Retirement in Britain: A Panel Data-based Analysis

 

            STAN PANIS, RAND Corporation

            Annuities and Retirement Satisfaction

 

 4:15 PM          Adjourn

TUESDAY, JULY 29:

 

 8:30 AM          Coffee and Pastries

 

 9:00 AM          ERIK HURST, University of Chicago

                        Grasshoppers, Ants and Pre-Retirement Wealth:

                                    A Test of Permanent Income Consumers

 

            MIKE HURD, RAND Corporation and NBER

            SUSANN ROHWEDDER, RAND Corporation

            The Retirement-Consumption Puzzle:

            Anticipated and Actual Declines in Spending at Retirement

 

                        TOM DAVIDOFF, U.C. Berkeley

                        Maintenance and the Home Equity of the Elderly

                       

12:15 PM         Lunch

 1:15 PM          JAMES POTERBA, MIT and NBER

            JOSHUA RAUH, MIT

            STEVEN VENTI, Dartmouth College and NBER

            DAVID WISE, Harvard University and NBER

                        Utility Evaluation of Risk in Retirement Saving Accounts

 

            DORA COSTA, MIT and NBER

            JOANNA LAHEY, MIT

                        Becoming Oldest-Old: Evidence from Historical U.S. Data

 

            DARIUS LAKDAWALLA, RAND Corporation and NBER

                        JAY BHATTACHARYA, Stanford University and NBER        

                        Does Medicare Benefit the Poor?  New Answers to an Old Question

 

 4:30 PM          Adjourn

 

WEDNESDAY,  JULY 30:

 

Joint Meeting with the Social Security Working Group

 

THURSDAY,  JULY 31:

 

Joint Meeting with the Productivity and Health Care Groups

 

FRIDAY, AUGUST 1:

 

Joint Meeting with the Health Care Group