NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2005

Social Security Workshop

Jeffrey Liebman and Andrew Samwick, Organizers

July 27, 2005

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY, JULY 27:
	JOINT SESSION WITH AGING AND PUBLIC ECONOMICS
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	KENT SMETTERS, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
	Social Security Privatization with Elastic Labor Supply and Second-BestTaxes
10:00 am	ISAAC EHRLICH, University of Buffalo and NBER
	JINYOUNG KIM, University of Buffalo
	Social Security, Demographic Trends, and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence from the International Experience
11:00 am	Break
11:30 am	MARK DUGGAN, University of Maryland and NBER
	PERRY SINGLETON, University of Maryland
	The Increase in Social Security’s Normal Retirement Age and the Rise in the Disability Rolls: Is There a Causal Connection?
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	JAMES CHOI, Yale University
	DAVID LAIBSON, Harvard University and NBER
	BRIGITTE MADRIAN, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
	Not All Information is Created Equal: Using Salience to Manipulate Financial Decisions
2:30 pm	Break
3:00 pm	JOYCE MANCHESTER and JAE SONG, Social Security Administration
	New Evidence on Earnings and Benefit Claims Following the Removal of the Retirement Earnings Test in 2000
4:00 pm	NICOLE MAESTAS, RAND Corporation
	Back to Work: Expectations and Realizations of Work After Retirement
5:00 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
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