Netspar invites contributions from all areas of Netspar’s research program. Topics of interest are: - Well-being and wealth of the elderly - Communication and choice - Work, pensions, housing and care - Savings, investments and insurance - Institutions, governance and solidarity - The labor...

Mariacristina de Nardi (UCL, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, IFS and NBER) and Andrew Ang (Columbia University) will give invited lectures on January 29 and 30. Mariacristina de Nardi will mainly focus on the retirement life-cycle phase and discuss, among others, the effect of medical...

The socioeconomic gradient in health has been described by some as one of the most intriguing questions for the social sciences. While its universal existence is well known, less is known about the relative roles played by various potential mechanisms in causing it. During this workshop we bring...

In most OECD countries the era of long-term care (LTC) has arrived. More than two out of five people aged 65 or older report having some type of functional limitation (sensory, physical, mental, self-care disability, or difficulty leaving home). A few years from now, the ageing trend will...

The conference is thus meant to stimulate further research and to create an opportunity for discussions of topics such as the following: - objectives of portability and optimal design of portability rules, - conceptual issues arising in different sub-fields, old-age provision and health care in...

By invitation only.

The conference is intended to encourage further research in the areas of empirical health economics, and to stimulate interaction and co-operation in this area of research. The specific focus of the conference is on the following topics: • Measurement of health, • Causal effects, • Health...

Topics: - Macroeconomic aspects of ageing and retirement; - Life cycle behaviour of individuals; - Ageing and health; - Institutional aspects and behaviour of pension funds and financial institutions.