Events

CEPRA/NBER Workshop on Ageing and Health 2019

Center for Economic and Political Research on Aging

Start date: 14.06.2019 / 08:35

End date: 15.06.2019 / 14:10

Red room (Executive center), Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano campus

Organized by Fabrizio Mazzonna, Axel Börsch-Supan, and Jonathan Skinner

The Center for Policy Research on Ageing (CEPRA) at Univesità della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano Switzerland, and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) are pleased to announce a US-European workshop on "Ageing and Health."

 

The workshop aims to facilitate the networking of both young and senior scientists and to promote the exchange of research ideas in the economics of ageing, health and health care. In particular, the workshop welcomes contributions on health at older ages; physical and cognitive functioning and their association with labor market and broader socioeconomic status; work disability; retirement choices such as savings and labor supply; longevity and well-being; and long-term care.

 

Keynote speakers: 
Janet Currie, Princeton University 
Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University

Full details at: http://admin.nber.org/sched/AHs19