NBER Summer Institute Agenda and Papers (Aging)

NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2016 Aging

David M. Cutler, and Jonathan S. Skinner, Organizers

July 25-29, 2016

PROGRAM

Nicole Maestas, Harvard University and NBER
Kathleen Mullen, RAND Corporation
David Powell, RAND Corporation
Till M. von Wachter, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
Jeffrey B. Wenger, RAND Corporation
American Working Conditions

Daniel K. Fetter, Wellesley College and NBER
Lee Lockwood, Northwestern University and NBER
Government Old-Age Support and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Old Age Assistance Program

David M. Cutler, Harvard University and NBER
Wei Huang, Harvard University
Adriana Lleras-Muney, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
Economic Conditions and Mortality: Evidence from 200 Years of Data

Ruixue Jia, University of California at San Diego
Hyejin Ku, University College London
The Price of the East Asian Miracle: Generational Cultural Shift and Elderly Suicide

Itzik Fadlon, University of California at San Diego and NBER
Torben Heien Nielsen, University of Copenhagen
Intra-Household Dependencies in Health and Health Behaviors

Gopi Shah Goda, Stanford University and NBER
Matthew Levy, London School of Economics
Colleen Flaherty Manchester, University of Minnesota
Aaron Sojourner, University of Minnesota
Joshua Tasoff
The Role of Time Preferences and Exponential-Growth Bias in Retirement Savings

Daniel J. Benjamin, University of Southern California and NBER
Mark Fontana
Miles S. Kimball, University of Michigan and NBER
Reconsidering Risk Aversion

Partha Bhattacharyya, National Institutes of Health
NIH Funding for Health Economics

Lorenz Kueng, Northwestern University and NBER
Evgeny Yakovlev, Acumen LLC
Long-Run Effects of Public Policies: Endogenous Alcohol Preferences and Life Expectancy in Russia

Sumit Agarwal, National University of Singapore
Jessica Pan, National University of Singapore
Wenlan Qian, National University of Singapore
Age of Decision: Pension Savings Withdrawal and Consumption and Debt Response

Paul Bingley, The Danish National Centre for Social Research
Alessandro Martinello, Lund University
The Effect of Schooling on Wealth Accumulation Approaching Retirement

Xi Chen, Yale University
Lipeng Hu, Peking University
Jody Sindelar, Yale University and NBER
Leaving Money on the Table? Social Pension Enrollment and Well-being of the Aging Population in China

Thomas DeLeire, Georgetown University and NBER
Andre Chappel, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Kenneth Finegold, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Emily Gee, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Do Individuals Respond to Cost-Sharing Subsidies in their Selections of Marketplace Health Insurance Plans?

Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Jason Abaluck, Yale University and NBER
Addressing Choice Inconsistencies in Choice of Health Insurance Plans

Pietro Tebaldi, Stanford University
Estimating Equilibrium in Health Insurance Exchanges: Price Competition and Subsidy Design Under the ACA

Amanda Starc, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Robert Town, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Internalizing Behavioral Externalities: Benefit Integration in Health Insurance

Leemore Dafny, Northwestern University and NBER
Kate Ho, Columbia University and NBER
Robin S. Lee, Harvard University and NBER
Price Effects of Cross-Market Combinations: Theory and Evidence from Hospital Markets

Nicolas R. Ziebarth, Cornell University
Stefan Pichler, ETH Zurich
The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes: Testing for Contagious Presenteeism and Shirking Behavior

Benjamin Friedrich, Yale University
Martin Hackmann, Pennsylvania State University
Parental Leave Programs, Nurse Shortages, and Patient Health

 

David W. Silver, University of California at Berkeley
Haste or Waste? Peer Pressure and the Distribution of Marginal Returns to Health Care

Diane E. Alexander, Princeton University
How do Doctors Respond to Incentives? Unintended Consequences of Paying Doctors to Reduce Costs

Zack Cooper, Yale University
Amanda E. Kowalski, Yale University and NBER
Eleanor N. Powell, University of Wisconsin-Madison
What Does a Hospital Do with Eighteen Million Dollars? Evidence From the Passage of Medicare Part D

Scott Barkowski, Clemson University
The Effect of Specialist Cost Information on Primary Care Physician Referral Patterns