Conference on Social Insurance.

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Conference on Social Insurance

Over 70 economists from the United States, Canada, and other countries gathered in Cambridge on April 28-9 for an NBER-Universities Research Conference on "Social Insurance." Research Associate B. Douglas Bernheim of Northwestern University organized the following program:

Jack Carr and Frank Mathewson, University of

Toronto, "The Effect of Deposit Insurance on Financial

Institutions"

Discussants: Lawrence Benveniste, Northwestern

University, and Anjan Thakor, Indiana University

Bruce D. Meyer, NBER and Northwestern University,

"An Event Study Approach to the Effects of

Unemployment Insurance"

Discussants: Walter Nicholson, Amherst College,

and Gary Solon, University of Michigan

Patricia M. Danzon, University of Pennsylvania,

"Mandated Employment-Based Health Insurance:

Incidence and Efficiency Effects"

Discussants: Georges Dionne, University of

Montreal, and Mark Schlesinger, Harvard University

Donald Cox, Boston College, and George H.

Jakubson, Cornell University, "The Connection between

Public Transfers and Private Interfamily Transfers"

Discussants: Paul Menchik, Michigan State

University, and James Andreoni, University of Wisconsin

Philip de Jong, University of Leiden; Robert H.

Haveman, University of Wisconsin; and Barbara Wolfe,

NBER and University of Wisconsin, "Labor and

Transfer Incomes and Older Women's Work:

Estimates from the United States" (NBER Working

Paper No.2728)

Discussants: David Card, NBER and Princeton

University, and Joseph Quinn, Boston College

Donald O. Parsons, Ohio State University, "Social

Insurance and Imperfect State Verification"

Discussants: Rebecca M. Blank, NBER and Princeton

University, and Eytan Sheshinski, Hebrew

University

Alan B. Krueger, NBER and Princeton University, and

Jorn-Steffen Pischke, Princeton University, "The

Effect of Social Security on Labor Supply: A

Cohort Analysis of the Notch Generation"

Discussants: Marjorie Honig, Hunter College, and

Wayne Vroman, The Urban Institute

David Altig, Indiana University, and Steve J. Davis,

University of Chicago and Stanford University,

"Altruism, Borrowing Constraints, and Social

Security"

Discussants: Andrew B. Abel, NBER and University

of Pennsylvania, and James Davies, University of

Western Ontario

Carr and Mathewson examine the impact of deposit insurance on the financial structure of deposit-taking firms. Using Canadian data on financial intermediaries after the introduction of deposit insurance in 1967, Carr and...