NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2008

 

Social Security Workshop

 

Jeffrey Liebman and Andrew Samwick, Organizers

 

July 23, 2008

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Parkview Room, East Tower

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 23:

 

 

 

JOINT SESSION WITH AGING AND PUBLIC ECONOMICS

 

 

 8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 8:30 am

ENRICO PEROTTI, University of Amsterdam

 

The Political Origin of Pension Funding and State Ownership

 

 

 9:30 am

JUSTINE HASTINGS, Yale University and NBER

 

LYDIA TEJEDA-ASHTON, Yale University

 

Financial Literacy, Information, and Demand Elasticity: Survey and Experimental Evidence from Mexico

 

 

10:30 am

Break

 

 

10:45 am

ALAN AUERBACH and RONALD LEE, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

Welfare and Generational Equity in Sustainable Unfunded Pension Systems

 

 

11:45 am

Lunch

 

 

12:45 pm

GIOVANNI MASTROBUONI, Collegio Carlo Alberto

 

Labor Supply Effects of the Recent Social Security Benefit Cuts:Empirical Estimates Using Cohort Discontinuities

 

 

 1:45 pm

ERZO LUTTMER and JEFFREY LIEBMAN,

 

Harvard University and NBER

 

DAVID SEIF, Harvard University

 

Labor Supply Response to the Social Security Tax-Benefit Linkage

 

 

 2:45 pm

Break

 

 

 3:00 pm

ADELINE DELAVANDE and SUSANN ROHWEDDER, RAND

 

Individuals’ Responses to Social Security Reform

 

 

 4:00 pm

GAOBO PANG and MARK WARSHAWSKY, Watson Wyatt Worldwide

 

Optimizing the Equity-Bond-Annuity Portfolio in Retirement: The Impact of Uncertain Health Expenses

 

 

 5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

5/22/08