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2010 Demography, Epidemiology and Economics of Aging Conference Program

Demography, Epidemiology and Economics of Aging

July 14–15, 2010

RAND Headquarters
Santa Monica, California

Note: Schedule is preliminary and subject to change.

Wednesday, July 14th
8:00 – 8:45 a.m.	Breakfast
8:45 – 9:00 a.m.	Opening Remarks Julie Zissimopoulos, Senior Economist, RAND Corporation; Director, Postdoctoral Training Program in the Study of Aging Michael Hurd, Senior Economist, RAND Corporation; Director,Center for the Study of Aging
Chairperson: Peter Huckfeldt, Associate Economist, RAND Corporation
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.	David Cutler, Harvard University How Health Reform Affects the Study of Health Economics Where Are The Health Care Entrepreneurs? The Failure of Organizational Innovation in Health Care
10:30 – 11:00 a.m.	Break
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.	Maxine Weinstein, Georgetown University Biosocial Surveys of Aging Conducting Biosocial Surveys: Collecting, Storing, Accessing, and Protecting Biospecimens and Biodata Biosocial Surveys Cells and Surveys
12:30 – 2:00 p.m.	Lunch
1:30 – 2:00 p.m.	Philip Pantoja, RAND Corporation Complementing the Health and Retirement Study: RAND Versions of HRS Data (this workshop is optional)
Chairperson: Gema Zamarro, Associate Economist, RAND Corporation
2:00 – 3:30 p.m.	James Fowler, University of California, San Diego Social Networks and Health Social Networks and Health Behavior The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network over 32 Years The Collective Dynamics of Smoking in a Large Social Net The Spread of Alcohol Consumption Behavior in a Large Social Network The Spread of Sleep Loss Influences Drug Use in Adolescent Social Networks Social Networks and Emotions Dynamic spread of happiness in a large social network: longitudinal analysis over 20 years in the Framingham Heart Study Alone in the Crowd: The Structure and Spread of Loneliness in a Large Social Network Social network determinants of depression Social Network Experiments Cooperative behavior cascades in human social networks The Biological Basis of Networks Model of genetic variation in human social networks Using Social Networks as Sensors to Detect Contagious Outbreaks Social Network Sensors for Early Detection of Contagious Outbreaks Note: These are not RAND documents.
3:30 – 3:45 p.m.	Break
3:45 – 5:15 p.m.	Robert Levenson, University of California, Berkeley See me, feel me, heal me: Empathy in normal aging and in dementia Loss of Cells—Loss of Self: Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration and Human Emotion
5:00 p.m.	Adjourn
6:30 - 9:30 p.m.	Banquet, Shutters on the Beach
Thursday, July 15th
8:15 – 9:00 a.m.	Breakfast
Chairperson: Kathleen Mullen, Associate Economist, RAND Corporation
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.	Art Kramer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Enhancing Cognitive and Brain Plasticity of Older Adults Enrichment Effects on Adult Cognitive Development Can the Functional Capacity of Older Adults Be Preserved and Enhanced?
10:30 – 10:45 a.m.	Break
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.	Brigitte Madrian, Harvard University Saving for Retirement: Lessons from Behavioral Economics The Importance of Default Options for Retirement Saving Outcomes: Evidence from the United States Mental Accounting in Portfolio Choice: Evidence from a Flypaper Effect Optimal Defaults And Active Decisions $100 Bills on the Sidewalk: Suboptimal Investment in 401(k) Plans Why Does the Law of One Price Fail? An Experiment on Index Mutual Funds Reinforcement Learning and Savings Behavior Note: These are not RAND documents.
12:15 – 1:15 p.m.	Lunch
Chairperson: Jenny Liu, NIA Postdoctoral Fellow in the Study of Aging, RAND Corporation
1:15 – 2:45 p.m.	Axel Börsch-Supan, University of Mannheim Pension reform and the crisis in Europe Social impact of the crisis --Demographic challenges and the pension system The Effects of the Financial Crisis on Private Pension Plans Rational Pension Reform How sensitive is the German public pension system to economic recessions? An answer based on the current financial crisis What Are NDC Systems? What Do They Bring to Reform Strategies? The German Public Pension System: How it Will Become an NDC System Look-Alike Pension Reform in Europe: Variety, Principles, and the Crisis Reading list for the RAND Summer Institute Note: These are not RAND documents.
2:45 – 3:00 p.m.	Break
3:00 – 4:30 p.m.	Paul Schultz, Yale University Gender and Generational Consequences of a Family Planning and Maternal-Child Health Program in Bangladesh: Evidence from a Quasi Social Experiment. 1977-1996 Gender and Generational Consequences of a Health and Family Planning Program: A Quasi Experiment in Matlab, Bangladesh Note: This is not a RAND document.
4:30 p.m.	Adjourn

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