NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2003

 

Social Security Working Group

Joint session with aging and public economics

 

Jeffrey Liebman and Andrew Samwick, Organizers

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

July 30, 2003

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY, JULY 30:


JOINT SESSION WITH THE AGING GROUP


 8:30 AM          Coffee and Pastries

 

 9:00 AM          ERIK HURST, University of Chicago and NBER

                        PAUL WILLEN, University of Chicago

                        Social Security and Unsecured Debt

 

10:00 AM         JEFF DOMINITZ, Carnegie Mellon University

                        CHARLES MANSKI, Northwestern University and NBER

                        JORDAN HEINZ, Northwestern University

                        Social Security Expectations and Retirement Savings Decisions

 

11:00 AM         Break

 

11:30 AM         B. DOUGLAS BERNHEIM and ANTONIO RANGEL, Stanford University and NBER

                        Emotions, Cognition, and Savings: Theory and Policy

 

12:30 PM         Lunch

 

 1:30 PM          MIKHAIL GOLOSOV and ALEH TSYVINSKI, University of Minnesota

                        Designing Optimal Disability Insurance                    

 

 2:30 PM          Break

 

 3:00 PM          JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER

                        JEFFREY KUBIK, Syracuse University

                        Health Insurance Coverage and the Disability Insurance Application Decision

 

 4:00 PM          Roundtable Discussion

                        Issues Facing the Social Security Advisory Board 2003 Technical Panel

 

 5:00 PM          Adjourn

 

 6:00 PM          Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA