Joint RAND and UC Berkeley Workshops: Response Errors in Surveys of the Elderly

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 9:30 Introductory remarks by Dan McFadden

9:30 - 10:30 Norbert Schwarz

10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 - 12:00 Chuck Manski

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 2:00 Joachim Winter

2:00 - 3:00 Rosa Matzkin

3:00 - 3:15 Coffee break

3:15 - 4:15 Arthur Lewbel

4:15 - 5:15 Guido Imbens

6:00 Dinner at Border Grill, 1445 4th Street

 

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

Morning sessions: Results from various experimental studies

9.00–9.45 Health vignettes
Arie Kapteyn, Jim Smith, Arthur van Soest

9.45–10.30 Bracketing effects and typicality
Norbert Schwarz, Joachim Winter

10.30–11.00 Coffee break

11.00–11.45 Experiments on survey response behavior in the Retirement Perspectives Survey 2003
Daniel McFadden, Joachim Winter

11.45–12.30 Respondent tendencies for nonresponse and response errors
Charles Manski, Francesca Molinari

12.30–1.30 Lunch break

Afternoon sessions: Preliminary results from the HRS Internet Panel 2003

1.30–2.15 Overview
Arie Kapteyn

2.15–3.00 Sample selection and weighting
Arie Kapteyn, Matt Schonlau, Mick Couper

3.00–3.30 Coffee break

3.30–4.00 Expectations questions
Arie Kapteyn, Michael Hurd

4.00–4.30 Unfolding brackets
Arthur van Soest

4.30–5.00 Numeracy questions
Mick Couper, Angela Fagerlin, Norbert Schwarz, Peter Ubel, David Weir, Joachim Winter

5.00–5.30 Nonresponse to income and asset questions
Joachim Winter

6:30 Dinner at Il Fornaio, 1551 Ocean Avenue

8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast

9:00 - 10:30 Update on state of affairs and begin of discussion of content for first CATI-interview

10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 - 12:30 Further discussion of CATI-instrument

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch

1:00 -3:15 Discussion of Internet instrument for second MS-interview

3:15-3:30 Coffee break

3:30 – 5.30 Future plans and arrangements

6:30 Dinner at Sushi Roku, 1401 Ocean Avenue