Call for Papers: NETSPAR PENSION WORKSHOP

                          CALL FOR PAPERS

                      NETSPAR PENSION WORKSHOP

                         June 25 - 27, 2008
                     The Hague, the Netherlands


     This workshop is organized by Netspar, the Network for
     Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement. The main
     economics faculties and departments in the Netherlands
     participate in Netspar, as well as a number of Dutch
     insurance companies, pension funds, and public sector
     organizations. For more detailed information about
     Netspar's research programme, please visit the website:

                        http://www.netspar.nl

     The focus of the June 2008 workshop is the use of micro-
     data on pension provisions and health issues related to
     retirement decisions and old age financial security. This
     workshop is co-organized with Statistics Netherlands.

     The workshop starts with a training day, where two keynote
     speakers will give an up-to-date review of current pension
     research. The keynote speakers are Brigitte Madrian
     (Harvard) and Jonathan Skinner (Dartmouth).

     The second day of the workshop is an academic conference
     with contributed papers. Day 3 focuses on administrative
     data (e.g. from Dutch pension funds and insurance
     companies) and using them for scientific and policy
     purposes.

     For the academic conference day (Thursday June 26, 2008),
     we invite contributed papers from all fields of pension
     economics. Topics of interest are, among others, those that
     fit with the Netspar themes "Income, health and work across
     the life-cycle" or "Pensions, savings and retirement
     decisions". See:

                   http://www.netspar.nl/themes/

     Researchers interested in participating are requested to
     submit a paper to:

     Email:        MAILTO:info@netspar.nl

     before March 15, 2008.

     Netspar has made funding available that covers
     accommodation for speakers and discussants and probably
     part of their travel costs. Participants are encouraged
     to stay for the full three days of the workshop.

     On behalf of the organizer,

     Arthur van Soest
Posted 2/23/08