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CEPAR in successful bid to establish International Longevity Centre
CEPAR is one of 11 organisations in the successful consortium which won the International Longevity Centre bid to establish an Australian centre.
A key player in the establishment of the Australian Centre was Professor Julie Byles, a CEPAR Associate Investigator, and Acting Head of International Longevity Centre Australia (ILC-A). “This is a great opportunity to join a global alliance of centres whose mission is to help societies address longevity and population ageing in positive and productive ways,” she said.
CEPAR Chief Investigator Hal Kendig was also heavily involved in the bid. “International collaboration offers an opportunity to for Australia to focus our efforts in ageing research, share our knowledge, and learn from other countries."
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US support for CEPAR research
A new grant from the Michigan Retirement Research Center (MRRC) will allow CEPAR to carry forward its research program on the impacts of means-testing pension benefits.
Under the grant, CEPAR will develop economy-wide models calibrated to the US and the Australian economies, compare retirement policy structures to analyse the implications of existing pension structures, and investigate alternatives.
The project will be led by John Piggott and Alan Woodland, with CEPAR Fellows George Kudrna, Rafal Chomik, and Associate Investigator Cagri Kumru.
It is one of several indicators of international interest in means-tested pension designs in which CEPAR has been involved recently.
Annuities and Means-testing - Switzerland and Australia compared
During her visit this month, Associate Investigator Monika Buetler ran a workshop looking at the Swiss and Australian pension systems, and preferences for annuitising pension wealth. Unlike Australians, the majority of Swiss retirees choose an annuity over a lump sum. Monika's research evaluates the impact of the means-test on individuals' decisions to cash out pension wealth, comparing a simulation model with a large administrative dataset of individual choices. She finds that means-tested payments create an incentive to cash out pension wealth for low and middle income earners, but not for high income earners.
The paper was presented during a half day workshop on means-testing held at CEPAR's UNSW node earlier this month. Other presentations included:
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Xiaodong Fan, A Lifetime Model of Labour Supply and Asset Allocation of Australians: Estimation and Policy Implications;
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Fedor Iskhakov, Optimal Annuity Purchases and Means-tested Public Pension;
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George Kudrna, Means Testing of Australia's Age Pension: A Numerical Analysis with an OLG Model.
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Presentations
International Conference on Ageing and Public Policy – Health Care, Urbanization and the Environment, Hangzhou, China 11 October 2014
Keynote by John Piggott:
Australia's Health and Aged Care System; New Developments in Aged Care Policy
Presentation by Lu Bei:
Informal Care in China: Evidence from CHARLS data
Asian Economic Policy Review (AEPR) Conference, Tokyo, Japan 18 October 2014
Presentation by John Piggott:
Population Ageing and Social Security in Asia
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Conference of the Asia Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health, Kuala Lumpur,
17 - 19 October 2014.
Keynote by Robert Cumming:
Population Ageing and Health in Developing Countries in the 21st Century
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ANU Centre for Research on Ageing, Health and Wellbeing
31 October 2014 Public Seminar with Prof Joanne Wood
Vision, Ageing and Driving
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Featured Publication
Burns, R.A., Butterworth, P., Browning, C., Byles, J., Luszcz, M., Mitchell, P., Shaw, J. and Anstey, K.J. (Sept 2014). Examination of the Association between Mental Health, Morbidity and Mortality in Late Life: Findings from Longitudinal Community Surveys, International Psychogeriatrics http://bit.ly/1oYaShC
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CEPAR Media
Research Fellow Rafal Chomik on the Average Older Australian Factsheet included in the Australian Financial Review and on 6PR Perth radio 01/10/2014. Hal Kendig was also interviewed by the Australian Financial Review on health and ageing 01/10/2014
http://bit.ly/1rcKegl
John Piggott's address to the Asian Economic Policy Review Conference featured In the Nikkei Asian Review http://s.nikkei.com/1DQVXsN
Kaarin Anstey was a panellist on ABC Radio National's Big Ideas special on dementia, 17/09/2014 http://ab.co/1qdEilo and spoke to The Canberra Times about the safety of older drivers http://bit.ly/10w6GL5 |
Researcher profile
Research Fellow Dr Yan Yu has been with CEPAR since its inception; her research interests include health and mortality, demography of ageing and quantitative research methods.
Read Yan's profile
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Visitors
Many distinguished Visitors are due at the Centre ahead of the CEPAR/CESifo Workshop on Tax and Pensions including:
Prof. Robert Holzmann, University of Malaya and CEPAR Honorary Professor,
Prof. Bernd Genser, University of Konstanz,
Prof. John Whalley, Director, Centre for the Study of International Economic Relations, Western University Canada,
Paul Johnson, Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
In addition Prof. Martin Boyer, University of Montreal, will be visiting CEPAR.
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Events 2014
ASSA Annual Symposium in collaboration with CEPAR
Population Ageing and Australia's Future
11 November 2014
Age Discrimination Commissioner
Susan Ryan AO:
Older people's views, attitudes, and age rights
2014 Cunningham Lecture by Professor Bruce Chapman AM FASSA
The case of the income contingent loan
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CEPAR & CESifo Workshops:
Pensions, Taxation, Population Ageing and Globalisation
17- 18 November
UNSW
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Emerging Researchers in Ageing Conference
24-25 November 2014
Flinders University
Eight CEPAR-affiliated students will be presenting
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