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RAND Conference Program
Demography, Epidemiology and Economics of Aging
July 15-16, 2005
RAND Headquarters
Santa Monica, California
July 15th, 2005 |
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8:00 - 8:30am |
Breakfast |
8:30 - 9:00am |
Introductions and opening remarks Julie Zissimopoulos, Economist, RAND Corporation |
Chairperson: Adeline Delavande, Associate Economist, RAND Corporation |
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9:00 - 10:30am |
Laura Carstensen, Stanford University Aging, Motivation and the Positivity Effect |
10:30 - 11:00am |
Break |
Chairperson: Susann Rohwedder, Associate Economist, RAND Corporation |
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11:00 - 12:30pm |
Jack McArdle, University of Virginia Longitudinal Studies of the Dynamics of Cognition in the Health & Retirement Study |
12:30 - 2:00pm |
Lunch |
Chairperson: Nicole Maestas, Associate Economist, RAND Corporation |
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2:00 - 3:15pm |
Robert Wallace, The University of Iowa College of Public Health Assessing Health Status in Older Persons: Special Issues and Challenges |
3:15 - 3:45pm |
Break |
Chairperson: Julie Zissimopoulos, Economist, RAND Corporation |
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3:45 - 5:00pm |
Douglas Ewbank, University of Pennsylvania Using Demographic Synthesis to Fit Multi-Group Life Tables
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5:00pm |
Adjourn |
6:00 - 9:00pm |
Dinner at Monsoon |
July 16th, 2005 |
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8:30 - 9:00am |
Breakfast |
Chairperson: Ryan Edwards, NIA Postdoctoral Fellow in the Study of Aging, RAND Corporation |
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9:00 - 10:30am |
Robert Levenson, University of California, Berkeley Emotion and Age: Normal Development and Vanishing Neurons
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10:30 - 11:00am |
Break |
Chairperson: Ryan Edwards, NIA Postdoctoral Fellow in the Study of Aging, RAND Corporation |
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11:00 - 12:30pm |
Emmett Keeler, RAND Corporation Cost Benefit and Cost Effectiveness Approaches to Valuing Health Gains
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12:30 - 2:00pm |
Lunch |
Chairperson: Takashi Yamashita, NIA Postdoctoral Fellow in the Study of Aging, RAND Corporation |
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2:00 - 3:15pm |
Richard Burkhauser, Cornell Disability Policy Research: What We Know and What We Would Like to Know Daly, Mary C. and Richard V. Burkhauser. "The Supplemental Security Income Program." In Robert Moffitt (ed.), Means Tested Transfer Programs in the United States. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press for the NBER, (2003), pp.79-140. Bound, John and Richard V. Burkhauser. "Economic Analysis of Transfer Programs Targeted on People with Disabilities." In Orley C. Ashenfelter and David Card (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics. Volume 3C. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, (1999), pp. 3417-3528. Note: For advanced copies of these papers, please contact Diana Malouf. |
3:15 - 3:45pm |
Break |
Chairperson: Takashi Yamashita, NIA Postdoctoral Fellow in the Study of Aging, RAND Corporation |
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3:45 - 5:00pm |
Jonathan Skinner, Dartmouth College A New View of Technology Growth in Health Care |
5:00 - 5:30pm |
Closing remarks |
5:30pm |
Adjourn |
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