Inequality and the Insurance Value of Transfers Over the Life Cycle

This academic conference, on Inequality and the Insurance Value of Transfers Over the Life Cycle, will be held at the Institute for Fiscal Studies on the 11th – 12th October.

Topics will include health and ageing, savings, government programmes, private insurance markets, earnings, health, and medical spending dynamics and risks and their implications, and retirement.

Participants include:

• Richard Blundell (UCL/IFS)
• Monica Costa Dias (IFS)
• Hans Martin von Gaudecker (Bonn)
• John Jones (Richmond Fed)
• Karen Kopecky (Atlanta Fed)
• Hamish Low (Oxford)
• Mariacristina de Nardi (Minnesota)
• Cormac O'Dea (Yale)
• Victor Rios Rull (Penn)
• Richard Rogerson (Princeton)
• Kjetil Storesletten (Oslo)
• Tom Zawisza (IFS)

Organisers:

• Eric French (UCL)
• Cormac O'Dea (Yale)
• Tom Zawisza (IFS)