Conference on Demography and Fiscal Policy:
October 16-17, 1998, Alumni House, UC Berkeley

Schedule

sponsored by the Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance and the
Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging, UC Berkeley

Organizers Alan Auerbach and Ron Lee invited research papers that evaluate the effects of changing demographics on fiscal policy. Low birth rates and increased longevity will soon not only alter the age structure, but will affect programs such as health care, Social Security and welfare.

Presentations by some of the world's leading public finance economists and economic demographers showed how the analytical tools of those disciplines can be used to determine the impact of these changes.

These papers, along with discussants' comments, are being compiled for a book to be published by Cambridge University Press.

B98-01 "Uncertainty and the Design of Long-Run Fiscal Policy"
Alan Auerbach, UC Berkeley
Kevin Hassett, AEI
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B98-02 "Using Microsimulation to Examine Social Security's Long-Term Forecast"
Steven Caldwell, Cornell
Alla Gantman, Boston University
Jagadeesh Gokhale, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Thomas Johnson, Cornell University
Laurence Kotlikoff, Boston University
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B98-03 "Demographics and Medical Care Spending: Standard and Non-Standard Effects"
David Cutler, Harvard University
Louise Sheiner, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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B98-04 "Social Security, Retirement Incentives, and Retirement Behavior: An International Perspective"
Jonathan Gruber, MIT
David Wise, Harvard University
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"Population Forecasting for Fiscal Planning: Issues and Innovations"
Ronald Lee, UC Berkeley
Shripad Tuljapurkar, Mountain View Research
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B98-06 "How Does a Community's Demographic Composition Alter Its Fiscal Burdens?"
Thomas MaCurdy, Stanford University
Thomas Nechyba, Stanford University
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B98-07 "Demographic Change and Public Assistance Expenditures"
Robert A. Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University
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B98-08 "Aging, Fiscal Policy and Social Insurances: A European Perspective"
by Bernd Raffelhüschen,
Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany
University of Bergen, Norway
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