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Date: February 16, 1998
NBER Specialist on Social Security and Retirement to Speak at the Woodrow Wilson School
PRINCETON, N.J. -- David Wise, John F. Stambaugh Professor of Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and director of the Program on the Economics of Aging at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), will give a lecture entitled "Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Thursday, February 26, at 4:30 p.m., in Robertson Hall, Bowl 1.
Wise has worked with the NBER since 1978, where, in addition to his post with the Program on the Economics of Aging, he is a research associate and directs its Health and Retirement Programs. Previously he served as director of NBER's Labor Aspects of Pension Plans and its Project on Public Sector Payrolls, and as co-director of its Program in Public and Private Pensions and its Project on Youth Employment.
The author of numerous articles on aging and retirement, Wise is the editor of Frontiers in the Economics of Aging (1998) and the co-editor of Social Security and Retirement around the World (1998) and Issues in Aging in the United States and Japan (forthcoming). He also is the editor of the Review of Economic Studies and has served on the board of editors of the Journal of Labor Economics and of the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Wise's talk is part of the Herman M. "Red" Somers Lecture Series on Aging, named in honor of Professor Somers, a member of the Princeton faculty from 1963 to 1979. He was well known as an author, lecturer, and consultant on health economics, health administration, and social insurance, and served on task forces and advisory councils to Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson, and to several secretaries of Health, Education, and Welfare. Along with his wife, Anne Somers, he collaborated on numerous books, including Doctors, Patients, and Health Insurance (1961), Medicare and Hospitals (1967) and Health and Health Care: Policies in Perspective (1977). Professor Somers died in 1991 at the age of 80.
Wise's lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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