The Economics of Household Saving.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - Brief article - Conference notes

NBER Research Associate Erik Hurst of the University of Chicago and NBER President James Poterba of MIT, who co-direct an NBER project on "The Economics of Household Saving", organized a meeting of that project on July 24, 2010. The following papers were discussed:

* Dean Karlan, Yale University and NBER; Margaret McConnell, Harvard School of Public Health; Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University and NBER; and Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth College, "Getting to the Top of Mind: How Reminders Increase Saving"

* Mark A. Aguiar and Mark Bils, University of Rochester and NBER, "Has Consumption-Inequality Mirrored Income Inequality?"

* Garry Barrett, University of Sydney; Thomas Crossley, Cambridge University, and Kevin Milligan, University of British Columbia and NBER, "Micro and Macro Based...