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*PRELIMINARY PROGRAM*
[As of April 13, 2006] |
| FRIDAY, APRIL 28 |
| 8:30–9:00 a.m. |
BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION |
| 9:00–9:15 a.m. |
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION |
Dimitri
B. Papadimitriou, President, The Levy Institute |
| 9:15–10:55 a.m. |
SESSION 1 – WELFARE STATE AND THE
INCENTIVES TO RETIRE |
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Chair:
Ajit Zacharias,
Levy Institute
“European
Welfare State Regimes and Their Generosity Towards the
Elderly”
Axel Börsch-Supan, Mannheim Research Institute
for the Economics of Aging (MEA), University of Mannheim
“Global Demographic Trends and
Provisioning for the Future.”
L.
Randall Wray, Levy Institute and University of Missouri-Kansas
City
Discussants:
Sergio Nisticò, University of Cassino
Richard Startz, University of Washington
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| 10:55–11:25 a.m. |
BREAK |
| 11:25 a.m.–1:05 p.m. |
SESSION 2 – ASPECTS OF ECONOMIC WELL-BEING
AND GENDER DISPARITIES AMONG THE ELDERLY |
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Chair:
Greg Hannsgen,
Levy Institute
“Net
Government Expenditures and the Economic Well-Being of the
Elderly in the United States, 1989-2001”
Edward
N. Wolff, Levy Institute and New York University, and
Ajit
Zacharias and Hyunsub
Kum, Levy Institute
“Differing
Prospects for Women and Men: Young Old-Age, Old Old-Age, and
Eldercare”
Lois B. Shaw, Institute for Women's Policy
Research
Discussants:
Robert Haveman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Caren
Grown, Levy Institute |
| 1:05–2:30 p.m. |
LUNCH |
| 2:30–4:10 p.m. |
SESSION 3 – CHANGING PATTERNS OF
RETIREMENT BEHAVIOR |
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Chair:
Caren Grown,
Levy Institute
“Working
for a Good Retirement”
Karen E. Smith, Barbara A. Butrica,
and C. Eugene Steuerle, Urban Institute
“Net Intergenerational Transfers
from an Increase in Social Security Benefits”
Michael Hurd, RAND Corporation
Discussants:
Lucie G. Schmidt, Williams College
Daniel L. Thornton, Federal Reserve Bank
of St. Louis |
| 4:10–4:40 p.m. |
BREAK |
| 4:40–6:10 p.m. |
SESSION 4 – INTERACTION BETWEEN PRIVATE
AND PUBLIC PROVISIONING |
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Chair:
W. Ray Towle,
Levy Institute
“The
Changing Role of Employer Pensions: Tax Expenditures, Costs
and Implications for Middle-Class Elderly”
Teresa Ghilarducci, University of Notre
Dame
“Responses
to Declining Retiree Health Benefit Coverage”
Stephen A. Woodbury, Michigan State University
and
James Marton, University of
Kentucky
Discussants:
Zvi Bodie, Boston University
Barbara Wolfe, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 6:10–9:00 p.m. |
RECEPTION AND DINNER |
| SATURDAY, APRIL 29 |
| 8:30–9:15 a.m. |
BREAKFAST |
| 9:15–10:55 a.m. |
SESSION 5 – BUDGETARY AND MACROECONOMIC
IMPLICATIONS OF AGING |
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Chair:
Hyunsub Kum,
Levy Institute
“Population
Forecasts, Fiscal Policy, and Risk”
Shripad Tuljapurkar, Stanford University
“Wage
Growth and the Measurement of Social Security's Financial
Condition”
Jagadeesh Gokhale, Cato Institute and Andrew
Biggs, Social Security Administration
Discussants:
Clark Burdick, Social Security Administration
Stephanie A. Kelton, University of Missouri-Kansas
City |
| 10:55–11:25 a.m. |
BREAK |
| 11:25 a.m.–1:05 p.m. |
SESSION 6 – RETIREMENT SECURITY:
PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS |
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Chair:
Dimitri B. Papadimitriou,
Levy Institute
“The
Adequacy of Retirement Resources Among the Soon-to-Retire,
1983-2001”
Edward
N. Wolff, Levy Institute and New York University
“Minimum Benefits in Social Security”
Melissa M. Favreault, Gordon B.
T. Mermin and C. Eugene Steuerle,
Urban Institute
Brooke Harrington, Brown University
Robert K. Triest, Federal Reserve Bank
of Boston |
| 1:05–2:30 p.m. |
LUNCH AND CLOSING REMARKS |
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