RAND Conference Program

Demography, Epidemiology and Economics of Aging

Note: Speakers are preliminary and are subject to change.

Friday July 14, 2006
8:00 - 8:45am	Breakfast
8:45 - 9:00am	Introductions and opening remarks Julie Zissimopoulos, Economist, RAND Corporation Michael Hurd, Senior Economist, RAND Corporation and Director, Center for the Study of Aging
Chairperson: Pierre-Carl Michaud, RAND Corporation
9:00 - 10:30am	Samuel Preston, University of Pennsylvania Why Do Populations Age or Grow Younger? Demographic Conditions Responsible for Population Aging Note: This is not a RAND document.
10:30 - 11:00am	Break
11:00 - 12:30pm	Alberto Palloni, University of Wisconsin Health and Mortality Differentials Among Adults: Does Selection Matter? Early Childhood Health, Reproduction of Economic Inequalities and the Persistence of Health and Mortality Differentials Note: This is not a RAND document.
12:30 - 2:00pm	Lunch
1:15 - 1:45pm	Presentation on RAND HRS Data Files (this workshop is optional) Philip Pantoja, RAND
Chairperson: Susann Rohwedder, RAND Corporation
2:00 - 3:15pm	Axel Börsch-Supan, University of Mannheim Global Aging: Macroeconomic Challenges and Microeconomic Answers Reforming the German Public Pension System What are NDC Pension Systems? What Do They Bring to Reform Strategies? Note: These are not RAND documents.
3:15 - 3:45pm	Break
3:45 - 5:00pm	Ronald Lee, University of California, Berkeley Population Aging and Intergenerational Transfers: Introducing Age into National Accounts Charting the Economic Life Cycle Population Aging and Intergenerational Transfers Demographic Change, Welfare, and Intergenerational Transfers: A Global Overview Note: These are not RAND documents.
5:00pm	Adjourn
6:00 - 9:00pm	Dinner at La serenata de Garibaldi
Saturday July 15, 2006
8:30 - 9:00am	Breakfast
Chairperson: Raquel Fonseca, RAND Corporation
9:00 - 10:30am	Malcolm Pike, University of Southern California Cancer and Aging: Duration of Time not Age – The Example of Female Cancers Prevention of cancers of the breast, endometrium and ovary Dense breast stromal tissue shows greatly increased concentration of breast epithelium but no increase in its proliferative activity Greatly increased occurrence of breast cancers in areas of mammographically dense tissue Effect of Hormone Replacement Therapy on Breast Cancer Risk: Estrogen Versus Estrogen Plus Progestin Note: These are not RAND documents.
10:30 - 11:00am	Break
11:00am - 12:30pm	Norbert Schwarz, University of Michigan Aging and Self-Reports: Age Sensitive Context Effects and the Perils of Cohort Comparisons Self Reports: How the Questions Shape the Answers Cognition, Aging, and Self-Reports Note: These are not RAND documents.
12:30 - 2:00pm	Lunch
Chairperson: Nicole Maestas, RAND Corporation
2:00 - 3:15pm	David Laibson, Harvard University Behavioral Economics: Intertemporal Choice and Retirement Planning Suggested Reading List Note: This is not a RAND document.
3:15 - 3:45pm	Break
3:45 - 5:00pm	William Gale, Brookings Institution What do Individual Development Accounts Do? Evidence from a Controlled Experiment What do Individual Development Accounts Do? Evidence from a Controlled Experiment Saving Incentives for Low- and Middle-Income Families: Evidence from a Field Experiment with H&R Block Note: These are not RAND documents.
5:00 - 5:30pm	Closing remarks
5:30pm	Adjourn

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RAND Conference Program

Demography, Epidemiology and Economics of Aging

Friday July 14, 2006

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