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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2009

 

Conference on Economics of Household Saving

 

July 18, 2009

 

Erik Hurst and James Poterba, Organizers

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

SATURDAY, JULY 18:

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

ANNAMARIA LUSARDI, Dartmouth and NBER

 

OLIVIA MITCHELL, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

How Ordinary Consumers Make Complex Economic Decisions: Financial Literacy and Retirement Readiness

 

 

10:00 am

JOHN BESHEARS, Harvard University

 

JAMES CHOI, Yale University and NBER

 

BRIGITTE MADRIAN, Harvard University and NBER

 

KATHERINE MILKMAN, University of Pennsylvania

 

DAVID LAIBSON, Harvard University and NBER

 

The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

ULRIKE MALMENDIER, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

STEFAN NAGEL, Stanford University and NBER

 

Depression Babies:  Do Macroeconomic Experiences Affect Risk Taking?

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

PETER KUHN, UC, Santa Barbara

 

PETER KOOREMAN, Tilburg University

 

ARIE KAPTEYN, RAND Corporation

 

ADRIAAN SOETEVENT, University of Amsterdam

 

The Own and Social Effects of an Unexpected Income Shock: Evidence from the Dutch Postcode Lottery

 

 

 2:00 pm

Break

 

 

 2:15 pm

MILES KIMBALL, University of Michigan and NBER

 

TYLER SHUMWAY, University of Michigan

 

Fatalism, Locus of Control, and Retirement Saving

 

 

 3:15 pm

Closing Discussion: Open Research Issues on Household Saving Behavior

 

CHRISTOPHER CARROLL, Johns Hopkins University and NBER

 

LAURENCE KOTLIKOFF, Boston University and NBER

 

 

 3:45 pm

Adjourn

 

 

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