Organizers:

David Macpherson, Florida State University

Session Chairs:

David Macpherson, Florida State University

Papers:

"The Growth of Participant Directed Pensions"
William E. Even, Miami University
David Macpherson, Florida State University (Contact Author)
Discussant: Frank W. Heiland, Florida State University

"The Future of DBs in the Public Sector"
Teresa Ghilarducci, University of Notre Dame (Contact Author)
Discussant: Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Georgia State University

"Pensions and Household Wealth Accumulation"
Gary Engelhardt, Syracuse University
Anil Kumar, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (Contact Author)
Discussant: Frank W. Heiland, Florida State University

"A Dynamic Model of Retirement and Social Security Reform Expectations: A Solution to the New Early Retirement Puzzle"
Hugo Benitez-Silva, Stony Brook University
Debra Sabatini Dwyer, Stony Brook University
Frank W. Heiland, Florida State University (Contact Author)
Warren Sanderson, Stony Brook University
Discussant: Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Georgia State University

Session Chairs:

John Robst, University of South Florida

Papers:

"Why Older American Business Owners Have a Longer Life Expectancy?"
Huan Ni, Kennesaw State University (Contact Author)
Govind Hariharan, Kennesaw State University

"Explain Individual Retirement Expectations Using Measures of Health Dynamics"
Hugo Benitez-Silva, Stony Brook University
Huan Ni, Kennesaw State University (Contact Author)

"Welfare Spending and Mortality Rates for the Elderly Before the Social Security Era"
Nicolae Adrian Stoian, University of Arizona (Contact Author)
Price Fishback, University of Arizona

"Does Happiness Affect Individual Economic Behavior? Evidence from Surveys from Netherlands and Germany"
Cahit Guven, University of Houston (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Sean P Corcoran, New York University
Javed Younas, Central Michigan University