NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2000
Social Insurance
Jonathan Gruber and Bruce Meyer, Organizers
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, Massachusetts
August 3, 2000
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
THURSDAY, AUGUST 3:
8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
9:00 AM V. JOSEPH HOTZ and GUIDO IMBENS, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
JACOB KLERMAN, RAND
The Long-Term Gains from GAIN: A Re-Analysis of the Impacts
of the California GAIN Program
10:00 AM REBECCA BLANK, University of Michigan and NBER
ROBERT SCHEONI, RAND
What Has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts on Welfare Participation, Employment, Income, Poverty, and Family Structure
11:00 AM Break
11:30 AM BRUCE MEYER, Northwestern University and NBER
JAMES X. SULLIVAN, Northwestern University
The Effects of Welfare Reform
12:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM EMMANUEL SAEZ, Harvard University and NBER
Optimal Income Transfer Programs: Participation Versus Intensity of Work
2:30 PM MARIANNE BERTRAND, Princeton University and NBER
DOUGLAS MILLER Princeton University
SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN, MIT and NBER
Public Policy and Extended Families: Evidence from South Africa
3:30 PM Break
4:00 PM DAVID AUTOR, MIT and NBER
MARK DUGGAN, University of Chicago and NBER
Disability Recipiency and the Decline in Unemployment
5:00 PM Adjourn
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