KEY-NOTE SPEAKER KEY-NOTE SPEECH Health and retirement: a structural interpretation Friday, September 28, 2018 3:30 – 5:00 PM

In this talk, Prof. French will highlight the simultaneity between health and retirement from a structural perspective, describe the mechanisms through which health affects labor supply, and discuss how they interact Prof. Eric French with public pensions and public health Eric French is a Professor of at insurance. He will then discuss recent University College London, Co-director, ESRC econometric analyses that have aimed to Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of understand causal mechanisms of actions Public Policy, Institute for Fiscal Studies, and and effect in these relationships. is a Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Centre for Economic Policy Research.

French received a B.A. in economics from French's research has been published in the University of California–Berkeley, and Econometrica, the Review of Economic Studies, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in economics American Economic Review, Journal of Political from the University of Wisconsin– Economy, Handbook of Labor Economics, Madison. Handbook of the Economics of Population French's research interests include: Aging, Annual Review of Economics, Review of household behavior over the lifecycle; the Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Labor impact of government and private Economics, International Economic Review, pensions on savings and labor supply; the Journal of Applied , Journal of impact of health insurance on medical Human Resources, Economic Journal, Fiscal spending, savings, and labor supply; the Studies, American Economic Journal: Policy and impact of disability insurance programs other publications. on labor supply; the impact of the Previously he was a senior economist and on employment and research advisor on the microeconomics team spending of minimum wage households; in the economic research department at the and dynamic structural modelling. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and taught at the Department of Economics and the Business School at Northwestern University.