MONDAY, JULY 30:

12:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM JAMES POTERBA, MIT and NBER

STEVE VENTI, Dartmouth College and NBER

DAVID WISE, Harvard University and NBER

The Transition to Personal Accounts and Increasing Retirement Wealth:

Macro and Micro Evidence

STEVE VENTI, Dartmouth College and NBER

DAVID WISE, Harvard University and NBER

Aging and Housing Equity: Another Look

LEONARD BURMAN, Urban Institute

NORMA COE, MIT

WILLIAM GALE, Brookings Institution

What Happens When You Show Them The Money?: Lump Sum Distributions, Retirement Income Security, and Public Policy

4:15 PM Adjourn

6:00 PM Clambake

Harvard Faculty Club

20 Quincy Street

Cambridge, MA

TUESDAY, JULY 31:

8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts

9:00 AM DOUG MILLER, UC, Berkeley

CHRISTINA PAXSON, Princeton University and NBER

Relative Income, Race, and Mortality

MICHAEL HURD, RAND Corporation and NBER

ARIE KAPTEYN, Tilburg University

Health, Wealth, and the Role of Institutions

JEROME BOURDIEU, GILLES POSTEL-VINAY and

AKIKO SUWA-EISENMANN, INRA

The Age-Wealth Relationship: An Analysis on French Data

12:15 PM Lunch

1:15 PM ROBERT JENSEN, Harvard University and NBER

To Be Announced

JULIA CORONADO and MARIA PEROZEK,

Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Wealth Effects and the Consumption of Leasure: Retirement Deciisons During the Stock Market Boom of the 1990s

Break

ANTHONY WEBB, UC, San Diego

The Impact of the Cost of Long-Term Care on the Saving of the Elderly

ANDERS KARLSTROM, MARTEN PALME and INGEMAR SVENSSON,

Social Security Reform and the Labor Market: