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Call for Papers | The Longevity Economy: Financing Healthy Ageing Workshop

Wednesday 4 March 2026

LSE Health's Ageing and Health Incentives Lab (AHIL), in partnership with the Population Aging Research Center (PARC) at the University of Pennsylvania, is pleased to announce a call for papers for its 2026 Workshop on 'The Longevity Economy: Financing Healthy Ageing', to be held on Monday 29 June 2026.

Population ageing is one of the defining challenges of our era. As lifespans lengthen across the globe, questions about how individuals, markets, and governments can sustainably finance longer, healthier lives have moved to the centre of economic, social, and policy debate. This one-day workshop brings together researchers from economics, public health, and related disciplines to examine these questions with fresh rigour and an international perspective.

The workshop will be opened by a keynote address from Professor Jim Poterba (MIT and President of the National Bureau of Economic Research), titled "Financing an Aging Population: Public and Private Sector Perspectives". One of the world's foremost economists in the field of ageing and public finance, Professor Poterba brings unparalleled expertise to the intersection of retirement security, savings behaviour, and fiscal sustainability.

We invite submissions on topics including, but not limited to:

  • Financing retirement and pension systems
  • Sustainability of public and private pensions
  • Long-term care financing and insurance
  • Housing, wealth, and living arrangements in older age
  • Behavioural economics and financial decision-making in later life
  • Health, cognition, and economic wellbeing
  • Inequality and vulnerability in ageing societies
  • Policy innovation and the longevity economy

The workshop particularly welcomes contributions that investigate behavioural and cognitive factors shaping financial and health-related decisions—such as retirement planning, savings behaviour, long-term care preparation, and the effectiveness of financial incentives and public policy. Submissions addressing both high-income and low- and middle-income country contexts are strongly encouraged.

The workshop is co-organised by Joan Costa-Font and Nilesh Raut (LSE) and Norma Coe and Hans-Peter Kohler (University of Pennsylvania).

Submission deadline: 1 May 2026

Please send submissions to Dr Nilesh Raut at n.raut@lse.ac.uk

For full details, visit the workshop webpage.