- Testimony: "The Future of Retirement Adequacy and Employer Pensions", Little Hoover Commission, Sacramento California, June 24, 2010.
- Panelist at the “New Retirement Realities; Pensions at Crossroads” conference at the New America Foundation’s Next Social Contract Initiative and the UC Retirement Security Institute, panel entitled “Pension Design Innovations: Challenges to Pension Environment”. Washington, DC, May 19, 2010.
- Presentation: “Unintended effects? Social insurance and macroeconomic performance”, Session 5: Policy Issues II: Social Groups and Individuals, The New Economics as ‘Mainstream’ Economics, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, UK, Friday 29 January 2010
- “The High Cost of Nudge Economics and the Efficiency of Mandatory Retirement Accounts”, National Tax Association. 102nd Annual Conference on Taxation. Denver, Colorado, Nov. 12-14, 2009
- Presentation: “Impact of Recommendations in “When I’m Sixty-Four: The Plot against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them.” At the FINANCIAL SYSTEM REFORM and PENSION REFORM Implications for Pension Management, Rotman International Center for Pension Management, University of Toronto, June 2009
- Discussant: for Peter J. Brady, Investment Company Institute—What Does the Market Crash Mean for the Ability of 401(k) Plans to Provide? at the National Tax Association meeting, 39th Annual Spring Symposium and 7th State-Local Tax Program Tax Policy and the Economic Recovery, May 21–22, 2009, Washington DC
- “THE RETIREMENT PLAN EXCLUSION” presentation at the Tax Expenditures and Social Policy: Are We Getting Our Money's Worth? event, New America Foundation, April 2009
- Panelist at the “Pensions, Social Security and the Privatization of Risk” forum at the Brookings Institution and the Social Science Research Council, Mar 27, 2009
- Presentation “Retirement Income Security Initiatives” at “Capital That Matters: Managing Labor’s Capital” conference of the Harvard Labor and Worklife Program Harvard University Law School, April 29-May 1, 2007
- Panelist at conference in Oxford, England, called “Pension and Health Liabilities in the Corporate Sector,” May 25-27, 2006
- Delivered paper entitled, “Tax Expenditures and Employer Pensions” at the Levy Economics Institution of Bard College conference on “Government Spending on the Elderly,” April 27-28, 2006
- “Trends in Public Sector Pensions: What to Encourage, What to Stop” Harvard University Law School, Chicago, Illinois, October 28, 2005
- Presentation and debate sponsored by The Century Foundation on "Privatization of Social Security." Discussion for Midwest newspaper reporters, “Are Americans Ready for Retirement?” Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, October 21, 2005
- Testified on “Pension Financing Trends” before the New Jersey Governor’s Benefit Task Force, New Brunswick, NJ. October 14, 2005
- "Potential and Pitfalls of Social Security Reform" given as part of the Law & ... Lecture Series of interdisciplinary talks sponsored by the Notre Dame Law School. October 12, 2005
- Presented “The Effect of the Stock Market Crash on Retirement Behavior” at the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 19, 2005.
- Hesburgh Lecture. "Promises and Perils of Social Security: The Attack on Retirement." For the Notre Dame Alumni Club of South Jersey and The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, in Pomona, NJ, April 8, 2005
- Presented "Straight Talk on Social Security" with Representative Timothy Bishop (Democrat-NY) at SUNY, Stony Brook, NY, April 22, 2005
- Industrial Relations Research Association annual meeting held in conjunction with the Allied Social Science Associations. Presenter of two papers: “Did ERISA Fail Us Because Firms Pension Funding Practices Are Perverse?” With Wei Sun. Working paper. University of Notre Dame, and "Small Firm Pension Coverage, Multiemployer Plans, and Middle Class Workers." With Mary Lee and Lance Wescher. Working paper, University of Notre Dame, Philadelphia, January 7-9, 2005
- The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. Commentator on two papers for the conference on "The Distributional Effects of Government Spending and Taxation.", October 15-16, 2004
- WBUR (radio station) Boston. Guest for The Connection program entitled, "Pension Crisis.", October 13, 2004
- Center for Economic Policy Analysis of New School University. Presenter of paper, "Employer Pension Reform and the Future of Secure Retirement" for conference on "Pension Fund Capitalism and the Crisis of Old-Age Security in the United States," September 10-11, 2004
- WBUR (radio station) Boston. Guest for the On Point segment entitled, "United, We Fall.", August 5, 2004
- University of Wisconsin, Madison. Presenter of paper, "The Political Economy of ‘Pro-Work’ Retirement Policies and Responsible Accumulation" for conference on "Using Pensions for Social Control of Capitalist Investment," part of the Real Utopias Project ’04, June 25-27, 2004
- Harvard University Law School. “Future Research and Policy Initiatives” at “Capital That Matters: Managing Labor’s Capital” conference of the Harvard Labor and Worklife Program, April 29-May 1, 2004
- University of Oregon. Keynote speaker. “Public Employee Labor Relations Conference” in Portland, Oregon. April 22, 2004
- National Academy of Social Insurance. Sixteenth Annual Conference entitled “In Search of Retirement Security: The Changing Mix of Social Insurance, Employee Benefits, and Personal Responsibility.” Conference Co-Chair. National Press Club, Washington, DC. January 22-23, 2004
- National Academy of Social Insurance. Sixteenth annual conference entitled “In Search of Retirement Security: The Changing Mix of Social Insurance, Employee Benefits, and Personal Responsibility.” Debate Joseph Quinn, Boston College, on topic, “Can Americans Work Longer?” National Press Club, Washington, DC. January 22-23, 2004
- Industrial Relations Research Association 55th Annual Meeting. Work and Older Americans Symposium, “How 401(k)s and Other DC Pension Plans Destabilize the Economy.” Washington, DC. January 3, 2003;
- American Economic Association Annual Meeting. “Employer Pension Contributions and 401(k) Plans.” Washington, DC, January 5, 2003
- Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Research Conference, The ‘M in APPAM’: Taking a Special Look at the Capacity of Government to Implement Public Policies. “Multiemployer Pension Plans and the Pension Coverage Problem.” Washington, DC. November 7, 2003
- International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Employer Benefits Conference. “Corporate Scandals: Lessons for Trustees.” San Diego, California. November 8, 2003
- Harvard University Law School. “Agenda for Best Practices Pension Fund Management” at “Managing Labor’s Capital” conference of the Harvard Labor and Worklife Program. April 23-25, 2003
- New School for Social Research, Center for Policy Analysis and the Department of Economics. “The Attack on Retirement: Global Economic Agendas and Elderly Work Patterns.” New York. April 30, 2003
- Attendee, "National Summit on Retirement Savings." Gathering of 250 experts from around the nation (nominated by Congress and the President), February 27-March 1, 2002
- The ASA Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements. “Authority in Contention: Interdisciplinary Approaches.” Presented session on “The American Labor Movement’s (Surprising) Economic Impact: Revisiting the Voice View of Unions.” University of Notre Dame. August 14, 2002
- Industrial Relations Research Association National Policy Forum. “The Decline in Employer Benefits” and “Living Longer But Working More.” National Press Club, Washington, DC. June 19-21, 2002
- Industrial Relations Research Association-Allied Social Sciences Association annual meetings, “The Economic Logic of Multiemployer Plans." Atlanta, January 7, 2002
- Department of Labor, Pension Welfare Benefits Administration, ERISA working group on pension coverage, testimony, “Portable Pension Plans for Causal Labor Markets.” July 17, 2001
- University of Pennsylvania, Pension Research Council, Wharton School of Business, “De-linking the Employer from Employee Benefits.” April 30-May 1, 2001
- Miami University. The Center for Pension and Retirement Research, Current Pension Policy Issues Conference “How 401(k)s Affect Employer Pension Costs.” June 8, 2001
- Industrial Relations Research Association-Allied Social Sciences Association annual meetings. “Women and Private Pensions.” New Orleans, January 7, 2001
- Rutgers University. “Rising Expectations: Women and Private Pensions.” New Brunswick, New Jersey, December 11, 2000
- Wall Street Program for Drew University, New York Society of Security Analysts, “Differences Between the 1960s and 1990s Expansion and the Coming Recession.” New York, February 24, 2000
- AARP. National Legislative Council Annual Meeting. “The Future of Employer-Provided Benefits.” Washington, DC, February 1, 2000
- National Academy on Social Insurance. Conference on “Health and Income Security of an Aging Work Force.” “Is Working Longer Desirable and Necessary? Workers’ View.” National Press Club, Washington, DC, January 26-27, 2000
- Aspen Institute. Harvard Professor David Ellwood. Resource person on issues of worker security. Aspen, Colorado, August 2000
- Italian Department of Labor and the CIGI. “International Pension Reform.” Rome, Italy, May 29, 1999
- The Century Foundation, “Investing Social Security Trust Funds in the Financial Markets.” The National Press Club. Washington, DC, March 18, 1999
- White House Financial Press Corps. “President Clinton’s Social Security proposals in the State of the Union Address.” Press briefing organized by the Washington think-tank, “America’s Future.” Washington, DC, January 25, 1999
- Economic Policy Institute and Sloan Foundation. “Pension Fund Investing for High Performance Workplaces.” Washington, DC, January 29-30, 1999
- Georgetown University. The Woodstock Forum on Social Security Reform and Catholic Social Teaching. Washington, DC, May 5, 1999
- White House Conference on Social Security. Invited attendee. December 8, 1998
- United Nations Habitat. “Pension Funds and Global Housing Investment.” Turin, Italy, Dec. 1, 1998
- The Century Foundation. Breakfast panel on “Women and Social Security.” New York, November 19, 1998
- "Do the Old Eat the Young?" Presented at the International Social Security Association International Conference in Jerusalem. January 25 - 28, 1998, and at the University of Texas-Austin. April 3, 1998
- Center for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University, and TIAA-CREF." Anti-Discrimination Provisions and the Labor Market." Discussant for the National Press Club. September 30, 1997
- New York University School of Law. "Employee Representation on Pension Investment Boards: An Economic Model of the Pension Contract." For the 50th Annual Conference on Labor, "Employee Representation in the Emerging Workplace: Alternatives and Supplements to Collective Bargaining." May 29-30, 1997
- AFL-CIO, High-Level Pension Retreat (15 people including top officers), Williamsburg, VA, July 21- 23, 1996
- The People's Republic of China. "American Pension Systems," Capital University, Beijing, May 19, 1996
- Levy Institute, Bard College. "Working Poor, Earned Income Tax Credit and Minimum Wage: The Employment Act of 1946: A Look Ahead." New York, April 25, 1996
- Telefonica. "U.S. Pensions and Worker Control," Madrid, March 6, 1996
- AARP. "What is Wrong With 401k Plans?" Conference on ERISA, a 20th Anniversary. Washington, DC, December 2, 1995
- U.S. State Department. "American Pensions and the Role for Workers." Kiev, Ukraine, November 15, 1995
- Trade Union Congress. "Financing Retirement Income Security." London, November 7, 1995
- International Labour Organisation. "Missing Pieces: A Critique of the World Bank Report on Averting the Old Age Crisis." June 25, 1995
- United States Information Agency and Social Security Agency of Italy, Rome, "US Pension Policy: Lessons for Italy." April 28, 1995
- United States Information Agency. "US Pension Policy: Lessons for Italy." Palermo, Italy, April 26, 1995
- European Commission. European Commission Visitors Program, "US Pension Policy," Brussels, Belgium, March 18-April 3, 1995
- Social Security Advisory Council. "Erosion of Pensions." Washington, DC, March 12, 1995
- American Academy on Aging. "Congress and Social Security." Dallas, Texas, February 19, 1995
- American Economics Association. "Investment and Feminist Economics." Session on Gender and Macroeconomics. Washington, DC, January 3, 1995
- American Economics Association. "Pensions in an International Perspective." Washington, DC, January 3, 1995
- Center for European Studies, Harvard University. "International Pension Funds." Cambridge, November 21, 1994
- University of Massachusetts. "Pension Funds and Capital Markets." Lowell, Mass., November 20, 1994
- European Pension Network, IRES. Presented paper on multiemployer pension funds to French Parliament. Paris, France, January 1994
- University of California. "Strategic Uses of Pension Funds." Berkeley, September 15, 1990
- American Economics Association. "Gender Divisions in the Labor Market." New York, December 27, 1988
- Cornell University. “Pensions and Asymmetric Information.” February 17, 1985
- Rutgers University. "UMWA Strike and the Median Voter Model." February 15, 1985
- Dissertation Awards Roundtable of the IRRA. New York, December 28, 1984