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...who directs the NBER's Aging Program.

The NBER has an ongoing grant from the Social Security Administration, as part of the Retirement Research Consortium. The grant has funded analysis of a wide range of issues related to Social Security. Selected papers written under the grant were presented at the conference, which was also funded through the grant. The papers were:

Jeffrey Liebman, and Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley and NBER, "Earnings Responses to Increases in Payroll Taxes"

Discussant: Bruce Meyer, University of Chicago and NBER

James M. Poterba, MIT and NBER; Joshua Rauh, University of Chicago and NBER; Steven Venti, Dartmouth College and NBER; and David A. Wise, "Reducing Social Security PRA Risk at the Individual Level--Lifecycle Funds and No-loss Strategies"

Discussant: Douglas Elmendorf, Federal Reserve Board

Gopi Shah Goda, Stanford University; John Shoven, Stanford University and NBER; and Sita Slavov, Occidental College, "Social Security and Medicare: Removing the Disincentives for Long Careers"

Discussant: Erzo Luttmer, Harvard University and NBER

Jeffrey R. Brown and Scott J. Weisbenner, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and NBER, "Who Chooses Defined Contribution Plans?"

Discussant: Brigitte C. Madrian, Harvard University and NBER

Alan J. Auerbach and Ronald Lee, University of California, Berkeley and NBER, "Notional Defined Contribution Pension Systems in a Stochastic Context: Design and Stability"

Discussant: Jeffrey Liebman

Andrew Biggs and Clark A. Burdick, Social Security Administration, and Kent Smetters, University of Pennsylvania and NBER, "Pricing Personal Account Benefit Guarantees: A Simplified Approach"

Discussant: George Pennacchi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

John Geanakoplos, Yale University, and Stephen P. Zeldes, Columbia University and NBER, "Facilitating Comparisons between DB and DC Systems: Can a PRA System Have the Same Features as the Current Social Security System"

Discussant: Jason Furman, New York University

James M. Poterba, Steven Venti, and David A. Wise, "The Decline of Defined Benefit Retirement Plans and Asset Flows"

Discussant: Jonathan Skinner, Dartmouth College and NBER

Alexander Ludwig, University of Mannheim; Axel Boersch-Supan, University of Mannheim and NBER; and Dirk Krueger, Goethe University, Frankfurt, "Demographic Change, Relative Factor Prices, International Capital Flows, and Welfare"

Discussant: James M. Poterba

Andrew Samwick, Dartmouth College and NBER, "Changing Progressivity as a Means of Risk Protection in Investment-Based Social Security"

Discussant: Michael Hurd, RAND Corporation and NBER

Martin S. Feldstein, Harvard University and NBER, "Reducing the Risk of Investment Based Social Security" (NBER Working Paper No. 11084)

Discussant: David Wilcox, Federal Reserve Board

John Beshears, Harvard University; James J. Choi, Yale University and NBER;...

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