International Pension Workshop

Literacy 1
Chairman: Marno Verbeek

Felix Villatoro (Adolfo Ibanez Uni)
Active investment decisions of members in the Chilean DC pension system: Performance and learning over time
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Discussant: Marno Verbeek (Erasmus Uni)Presentation

Raun van Ooijen (Groningen Uni)
Financial literacy, financial advice and mortgage risks
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Discussant: Constanza Torricelli (Universita’di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
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Literacy 2
Chairman: Martijn Boons

Jochem de Bresser (Groningen Uni)
Can survey participation alter household financial behavior?
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Discussant: Henriëtte Prast (Tilburg Uni)Presentation

Henriëtte Prast (Tilburg Uni)
Is the gender gap in finance a gap in familiarity? The effect of a pink portfolio on investor behaviours
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Discussant: Susan Thorp (UTS Business School)Presentation

Health 1
Chairman: Ponpoje Porapakkarm

Ha Nguyen (Uni of Queensland)
The dynamics of informal care provision in the Australian household panel survey: Previous work characteristics and future care provision
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Discussant: Amelie Wuppermann (Ludwig-Maximulians-Uni Munich)
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Amelie Wuppermann (Ludwig-Maximilians-Uni Munich)
The price sensitivity of health plan choice among retirees: Evidence from the Germany social health insurance
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Discussant: Margherita Borella (Turin Uni)Presentation

Health 2
Chairman: Adriaan Kalwij

Michael Hurd (RAND)
The lifetime risk of nursing home use
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Discussant: Raun van Ooijen (Groningen Uni)
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Giacomo Pasini (Ca’Foscari Uni of Venice)
Do maternity leave benefits improve mother’s health at old age? Evidence from 11 European countries during 1960 – 2010
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Discussant: Rob Alessie (Groningen Uni)
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Intergenerational solidarity (MOPACT) 1
Chairman: Lans Bovenberg

Roel Mehlkopf (Tilburg Uni)
Optimal design and regulation of funded pension schemes
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Discussant: Eduard Ponds (Tilburg Uni / APG)
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Jairo Rivera-Rozo (Erasmus Uni)
National culture and the configuration of public pensions
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Discussant: Ed Westerhout (CPB)
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Intergenerational solidarity (MOPACT) 2
Chairman: Lans Bovenberg

Johannes Uhde (Uni of Wurzburg)
Means-testing retirement benefits in the UK: Is it efficient?
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Discussant: Peter Broer (CPB)
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Joanna Tyrowicz (Uni of Warsaw)
Efficiency of the pension reform: The welfare effects of various fiscal closures
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Discussant: Fabian Kindermann (Uni of Wurzburg)
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Keynote speakers

Mariacristina de Nardi (UCL, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, IFS and NBER)
Savings and medical expenses in old age in the US
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Andrew Ang (Columbia University)
Portfolio choice with illiquid assets
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Literacy 3
Chairman: John Turner

Hazel Bateman (Uni of New South Wales)
How retirement savers use prescribed investment disclosures
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Discussant: Felix Villatoro (Adolfo Ibanez Uni)Presentation

Eleanor Davies (Uni of Huddersfield)
The role of line managers in retirement management and their perceptions of their role of the timing of employee retirement
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Discussant: Hans van Meerten (Clifford Chance)
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Chairman: Michael Hurd

Tobias Klein (Tilburg Uni)
Consumption at old age and life time labor supply in rural China
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Discussant: Jochem de Bresser (Groningen Uni)E20140130_IPW pres disc de bresser

Yanyuan Wu (Boston College)
Do older workers squeeze out younger workers? Evidence from the US and China
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Discussant: Tobias Klein (Tilburg Uni)
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Life cycle 1
Chairman: Johannes Uhde

Manuel Flores (Uni of Santiago de Compostela and IDEGA)
Early life circumstances and lifetime earnings: A European cross-country comparison
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Discussant: Michal Myck (Center for Economic Analysis)
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Michal Myck (Center for Economic Analysis)
The effect of pensions on saving and expenditure: Evidence from Poland’s 1999 pension reform
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Discussant: Manuel Flores (Uni of Santiago de Compostela and IDEGA)
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Life cycle 2
Chairman: Monika Bütler

Niels Vermeer (CPB)
Demanding occupations and the reasonable retirement age
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Discussant: Ludovic Phalippou ( Uni of Oxford)
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Danilo Cavapozzi (Ca’Foscari Uni of Venice)
Alternative weighting structures for multidimensional poverty assessment
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Discussant: Ruud Muffels (Tilburg Uni)
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Valuation
Chairman: Hazel Bateman

Joshua Rauh (Stanford Graduate School of Business)
Financial valuation of PBGC insurance with market-implied default probabilities
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Discussant: Peter Schotman (Maastricht Uni)
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Byron Lutz (Federal Reserve Board of Governors)
The fiscal stress arising from state and local retiree health obligations
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Discussant: John Turner (Pension Policy Center)
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Health 3
Chairman: Tobias Klein

Adriaan Kalwij (Utrecht University)
Early-life conditions, lifetime income and mortality risk in Italy
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Discussant: Peter Kooreman (Tilburg Uni)
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Vesile Kutlu (Utrecht School of Economics)
Knowledge on population life expectancy and the accuracy of subjective survival probabilities
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Discussant:  Bertrand Melenberg (Tilburg Uni)
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Keynote speakers

Andrew Ang (Columbia University)
Estimating private equity returns from limited partner (pension fund) cashflows
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Mariacristina de Nardi (UCL, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, IFS and NBER)
Wealth inequality, savings and bequest motives
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