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Session 26: NBER Session: Financing Retirement: Key Issues
In this traditional annual meeting session, panelists from the National Bureau of Economic Research will review the recent research in pensions, 401Ks, and defined benefit vs. defined contribution programs
Presentations
David Wise, Financing Retirement: The Private Sector (PDF 46 K)
Andrew Samwick, Financing Retirement: Key Issues (PDF, 55 K)
Links of Interest
National Bureau of Economic Research
David Wise's home page
Speakers
Andrew A. Samwick
Professor of Economics
Dartmouth College
Andrew Samwick is Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, and is also the director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center, a position he began on July 1, 2004. At Dartmouth since 1994 , Samwick was on leave during the 2003-2004 academic year in Washington, D.C., serving as the chief economist on the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers.
A specialist in Social Security reform, he is the author of many scholarly articles and reviews in fields ranging across the spectrum of economics. His work has appeared in The American Economic Review, The Journal of Political Economy, The Journal of Finance, and other journals. His commentary with Dartmouth Professor of Economics and Medicine Jonathan Skinner on 401(k) plans appeared in USA Today. He has been a consultant for the Canadian government, the U.S. Social Security Administration, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, and the World Bank. On three occasions Samwick has offered Congressional testimony on Social Security and retirement issues.
In 2000, he was the recipient of Dartmouth's Karen E. Wetterhahn Award for Distinguished Creative or Scholarly Achievement. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the co-organizer of its Social Security Working Group. Samwick earned his doctorate in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993 and his undergraduate degree summa cum laude in economics from Harvard, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, in 1989.
David A. Wise
John F. Stambaugh Professor of Political Economy
Harvard University
David A. Wise, John F. Stambaugh Professor of Political Economy, came to the Kennedy School after graduate work in economics at the University of California at Berkeley. His past research includes analysis of youth employment, the economics of education and schooling decisions, and methodological econometric work. His work now focuses on issues related to population aging, and he directs a large project on the economics of aging and health care. His recent books and papers include: Social Security and Retirement Around the World; Frontiers in the Economics of Aging; Facing the Age Wave;Inquiries in the Economics of Aging; Social Security and Retirement Around the World: Micro-Estimation; The Transition to Personal Accounts and Increasing Retirement Wealth: Macro and Micro Evidence; Aging and Housing Equity: Another Look; Implications of Rising Personal Retirement Saving; The Taxation of Pensions: A Shelter Can Become a Trap; and Utility Evaluation of Risk in Retirement Saving Accounts.
