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7th Annual Conference of the Retirement Research Consortium

      August 11-12, 2005
      National Press Club
      Washington, D.C.

Panel 1: What Will the Elderly Need in Retirement?

View Paper: Consumption and Economic Well-being at Older Ages:
Income-and Consumption-based Poverty Measures in the HRS
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Michael Hurd and Susann Rohwedder, RAND

View Paper: Cross-National Evidence on the Burden of Age-Related Transfers
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Gary Burtless,The Brookings Institution

View Paper: What Replacement Rates Do Households Actually Experience in Retirement?
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Alicia H. Munnell and Mauricio Soto, Boston College

View Discussant Remarks: What Will the Elderly Need in Retirement? A Comment
Eugene Steuerle, Urban Institute

View Discussant Remarks: Discussion: What Will the Elderly Need in Retirement?
John Philips, NIH

Panel 2: How Do Individuals Plan and Save for Retirement?

View Paper (not yet available): The Decline in Saving: What Can We Learn from Survey Data?
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Barry Bosworth and Lisa Bell, The Brookings Institution

View Paper: Financial Literacy and Planning: Implications for Retirement Well-being
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AnnaMaria Lusardi, Dartmouth College and Olivia Mitchell, University of Pennsylvania

View Paper: Household Propensities to Plan for Retirement: A Life Cycle Analysis
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Erik Hurst, University of Chicago

View Discussant Remarks: Household Propensities to Plan for Retirement: A Life Cycle Anaylsis
Timothy Smeeding, Syracuse University

View Discussant Remarks: The Decline in Household Saving: What Can We Learn From Survey Data?
Arie Kapteyn, RAND

View Discussant Remarks: Financial Literacy and Planning: Implications for Retirement Well-being
Arie Kapteyn, RAND

Panel 3: What Happens When Things Go Wrong?

View Paper (not yet available): How is Mortality Affected by Health Care and Health Behaviors?
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David Cutler and Edward Glaeser, Harvard University

View Paper: When the Nest Egg Cracks: Managing Risks in Retirement
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Richard Johnson, Gordon Mermin and Cori Uccello, Urban Institute

View Paper: How Portfolios Evolve after Retirement: The Effect of Health Shocks
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Courtney Coile, Wellesley College and Kevin Milligan, University of British Columbia

Panel 4: Social Security Reform-Congresional Proposals and Views?

There were no papers for this Panel.

Panel 5: Can People Continue to Work?

View Paper: Population Aging and the Structure of Wages
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Robert Triest, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Steven A. Sass and Margarita Sapozhnikov, Boston College

View Paper: Technological Progress and Worker Productivity at Different Ages
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John Laitner and Dmitriy Stolyarov, University of Michigan

View Paper: Why Not Retire? The Time and Timing Costs of Market Work
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Daniel S. Hamermesh, University of Texas at Austin

View Discussant Remarks: Technological Progress and Worker Productivity at Different Ages
Alan Gustman, Dartmouth College

Panel 6: What are the Risks and Returns of Private Accounts for Social Security?

View Paper: Interpreting Social Security as a Defined Contribution System
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Stephen Zeldes, Columbia University and John Geanakoplos, Yale University

View Paper: Political Risk versus Market Risk in Social Security
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John B. Shoven, Stanford University and Sita N. Salvov, Occidental College

View Paper: Demographic Change, Retirement Saving, and Financial Market Returns
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James Poterba, MIT, Steven Venti, Dartmouth College and David A. Wise, NBER

View Discussant Remarks: What Are the Risks and Returns of Private Accounts for Social Security?
Deborah Lucas, Northwestern University

Panel 7: What Does Individual Investment Behavior Imply for Personal Accounts?

View Paper: Retirement, Saving, Benefit Claiming and Solvency under a Partial System of Voluntary Personal Accounts
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Alan Gustman, Dartmouth College and Thomas Steinmeier, Texas Tech University

View Paper: What Are the Effects of Portfolio Choice on Retirement Wealth Outcomes?
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Jeffrey Brown, University of Illinois and Scott Weisbenner, University of Illinois

View Paper $100 Bills on the Sidewalk: Suboptimal Saving in 401(k) Plans
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James Choi, Yale University,David Laibson, Harvard University and Brigette C. Madrian, University of Pennsylvania

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