National
Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington DC February 28
2014
Organizing
Committee:
Robert
Hauser (DBASSE andNRC); James Poterba
(NBER and MIT), James Smith (RAND), David Weir (University of Michigan ISR),
David Wise (NBER and Harvard)
PROVISIONAL
PROGRAM
11:00 am – 12
noon
Registration and Light Lunch
12:00 noon
Introduction and Welcome
Richard
Hodes, Director, National Institute of Aging
12:10 pm – 1:05 pm
The Economics of Health and Aging
Daniel
McFadden, University of California, Berkeley
David
Wise, Harvard University
David
Cutler, Harvard University
Chair: Jon Skinner,
Dartmouth College
1:05 pm – 2:00 pm
International Research and Cross-National Comparisons
David
Weir, University of Michigan
James
Smith, RAND Corporation
Axel
Börsch-Supan, Max Planck Institute for Social Law and
Social Policy
Chair:
James
Poterba, MIT
2:00
pm – 2:30 pm BREAK
2:30 pm - 2:40 pm
NIA/BSR and the National Academy of
Sciences
Robert
Hauser, DBASSE and NRC
2:40 pm – 3:35 pm
Demography of Aging and Disability
Trends
Linda
Waite, University of Chicago
James
Vaupel, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Eileen
Crimmins, University of Southern California
Chair:
Ron
Lee, University of California, Berkeley
3:35 pm – 3:55 pm BREAK
3:55 pm – 5:05 pm
Advances in Basic & Applied
Behavioral Science at the Intersection of Psychology & Economics
Laura
Carstensen, Stanford University
Angus
Deaton, Princeton University
David
Laibson, Harvard University
Chair: Robert Willis,
University of Michigan
5:05 pm – 6:00 pm
Lifecourse Studies/Pathways/Reversibility
James
Heckman, University of Chicago
John
Cacioppo, University of Chicago
Lisa
Berkman, Harvard University
Chair:
David
Reiss, Yale University
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner