This workshop is organized by Netspar, the Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement, as a follow-up to the meetings of the RTN-AGE network on the Economics of Aging in Europe. It is open to researchers from outside the network.
The research network on the Economics of Aging in Europe wants to improve our understanding of economic decisions of the elderly, e.g. on saving, portfolio choice, retirement, health expenditures, or intergenerational transfers. It focuses on empirical modelling of household and individual decisions in an intertemporal framework. Understanding the nature of these decisions, and the way in which these decisions react to changes in household circumstances, both currently and potentially in the future, is an important component of policy analysis in this area.
The project has six themes, each aimed at a dimension in which empirical micro-economics can inform policy analysis at the national and European level. These are: aging and household saving; pensions, social security and labor market behavior; the relation between health and economic resources; saving and portfolio decisions; consumption and material living standards of the elderly; intergenerational transfers and the role of family transfers and the interaction with state transfers.
Netspar aims at stimulating scientific research, education, and dissemination of the Economics of Pensions and Aging. The main economics faculties and departments in the Netherlands participate in Netspar, as well as a number of Dutch insurance companies, pension funds, and public sector organizations. You can find all the partners of Netspar here.
The workshop consists of some invited lectures and a larger number of contributed papers, with formal discussants. Young researchers (postdocs and PhD students) are particularly invited to present their work. The workshop will run from Thursday afternoon (November 16) until Saturday early afternoon (November 18).
Netspar has made funding available that covers accommodation of junior participants (speakers and discussants) and probably part of their travel costs. Senior participants are kindly asked to cover their own costs where possible.
The organizers
Rob Alessie, Jan van Ours, Frederic Vermeulen, and Arthur van Soest