Jagadeesh Gokhale, PWBM’s Director of Special Projects, gave a presentation on PWBM’s Microsimulation to the Social Security Advisory Board's (SSAB) Technical Panel on Assumptions and Methods (TPAM) at their February meeting. More information on the panel and past meetings can be found here.
Meeting Agenda
9:00am-11:00am Fertility assumptions and methods
Office of the Chief Actuary, Social Security Administration
Hans-Peter Kohler, Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demography and Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
Alison Gemmill, Assistant Professor, Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine, Stoney Brook University
Josh Goldstein, Technical Panel member
11:00am-12:30pm Economic assumptions and methods
Wendy Edelberg, Associate Director for Economic Analysis, Congressional Budget Office
12:30pm-1:30pm Lunch break
1:30pm-3:00pm Microsimulation projection models
Jagadeesh Gokhale, Director of Special Projects, Penn Wharton Budget Model
3:00pm-4:30pm Presentation and data visualization in the Trustee Report
Jonathan Schwabish, senior fellow in the Income and Benefits Policy Center at the Urban Institute; Founder, PolicyViz