NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.



SUMMER INSTITUTE 2000



Aging

David Wise, Organizer



Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts



July 31 - August 1, 2000



PRELIMINARY PROGRAM



MONDAY, JULY 31:



12:00 PM Lunch



1:00 PM AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT

JAMES POTERBA, MIT and NBER

Adverse Selection in Insurance Markets:

Policyholder Evidence from the U.K.Annuity Market

LAURENCE KOTLIKOFF, Boston University and NBER,

Using ESPlanner to Study Saving and Insurance Adequacy



Break

MARIOS ANGELETOS, Harvard University

DAVID LAIBSON, Harvard University and NBER

ANDREA REPETTO, Universidad de Chile

JEREMY TOBACMAN and STEPHEN WEINBERG,

Harvard University

Hyperbolic Discounting: Consumption and Savings

over the Lifecycle



LEORA FRIEDBERG, UC, San Diego and NBER

ANTHONY WEBB, UC, San Diego

The Impact of 401(K) Plans on Retirement



5:00 PM Adjourn



TUESDAY, AUGUST 1:



8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts





SI00 AW Program

Page two



9:00 AM LEE LILLARD, University of Michigan

ROBERT WILLIS, University of Michigan

Cognition and Wealth: The Importance of

Precision in Probabilistic Thinking



KATHLEEN MCGARRY, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

Testing Parental Altruism: Implications of a Dynamic Model



MICHAEL BAKER, University of Toronto and NBER

JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER

Income Security Programs and Retirement in Canada



12:15 PM Lunch



1:15 PM ROBERT JENSEN, Harvard University and NBER

KASPAR RICHTER, London School of Economics

Social Security and Well-Being: Evidence from

the Russian Pension Crisis

REINHOLD SCHNABEL, University of Mannheim

Opting Out of Social Security - Incentives and

Participation in the German PAYG Pension System



HUGO BENITEZ-SILVA, MOSHE BUCHINSKY and

HIU MAN CHAN, Yale University

JOHN RUST, Yale University and NBER

SOFIA SHEIDVASSER, Yale University

Social Insurance at the End of Life Cycle:

A Joint Model of Unemployment, Disability,

Old-Age and Medicare Benefits



5:00 PM Adjourn





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