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Please RSVP to attend this workshop by emailing npcinfo@umich.edu, indicating whether you will attend breakfast and/or lunch.

April 3, 2009
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Joan and Sanford Weill Hall
Fisher Classroom, Room 1220

9 AM - 9:45 AM	Continental Breakfast
9:45 AM - 10 AM	Opening Remarks, Introductions Michael Barr, University of Michigan
10 AM - 11 AM	Testing Long-term Impacts of Individual Development Accounts and Asset Building on Social and Economic Well-being Michal Grinstein‐Weiss, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; William Gale, The Brookings Institution; William Rohe, Center for Urban and Regional Studies; and Michael Sherraden, Washington University, Center for Social Development Discussant: Jeffrey Smith, University of Michigan
11 AM - 12 PM	Financial Literacy, Cognitive Biases and Payday Lending Adair Morse, University of Chicago and Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago Discussant: John P. Caskey, Swarthmore College
12 PM - 1 PM	Lunch
1 PM - 2 PM	Testing Strategies to Increase Saving and Retention in Individual Development Account Programs Cäzilia Loibl, The Ohio State University; and Emily Haisley, and George Loewenstein, Carnegie Mellon University Discussant: Jane Dokko, Federal Reserve Board
2 PM - 3 PM	A Proposal to Examine the Effect of Relaxed Welfare Asset Rules on Auto Ownership, Employment and Welfare Rolls: A Longitudinal Analysis Lorien Rice, Mills College and Cynthia Bansak, St. Lawrence University Discussant: Jim Sullivan, Notre Dame University
3 PM - 3:15 PM	Concluding Remarks Rebecca Blank, The Brookings Institution

For more information please contact npcinfo@umich.edu.