NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Summer Institute 2003
Social Security Working Group
Joint session with aging and public economics
Jeffrey Liebman and Andrew Samwick, Organizers
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 30, 2003
Preliminary Program

Wednesday, July 30:

9:00 AM

Coffee and Pastries

10:00 AM

JEFF DOMINITZ, Carnegie Mellon University
CHARLES MANSKI, Northwestern University and NBER
JORDAN HEINZ, Northwestern University
"Will Social Security Be There for You?":
How Americans Perceive Their Benefits

11:00 AM

Break

11:30 AM

ERIK HURST, University of Chicago and NBER
PAUL WILLEN, University of Chicago
Social Security and Unsecured Debt

12:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM

MIKHAIL GOLOSOV and ALEH TSYVINSKI, University of Minnesota
Designing Optimal Disability Insurance

2:30 PM

Break

3:00 PM

JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER
JEFFREY KUBIK, Syracuse University
Health Insurance Coverage and the Disability Insurance Application Decision

4:00 PM

Roundtable Discussion
Issues Facing the Social Security Advisory Board 2003 Technical Panel

5:00 PM

Adjourn

6:00 PM

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA