NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.



PUBLIC ECONOMICS PROGRAM MEETING

Joshua Rauh and Austan Goolsbee, Organizers



November 2-3, 2006

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts



PROGRAM



THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2:



12:30 PM Lunch



1:30 PM MARK DUGGAN, University of Maryland and NBER

Aching to Retire? The Rise in the Full Retirement Age

and its Impact on the Disability Rolls

(Joint with Perry Singleton and Jae Song)



Discussant: JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER



2:30 PM JEFFREY LIEBMAN, Harvard University and NBER

EMMANUEL SAEZ, UC, Berkeley and NBER

Earnings Responses to Increases in Payroll Taxes

Discussant: AUSTAN GOOLSBEE, University of Chicago and NBER



3:30 PM Break



4:00 PM JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER

DANIEL HUNGERMAN, University of Notre Dame and NBER

The Church vs. The Mall: What Happens

When Religion Faces Increased Secular Competition?



Discussant: EDWARD GLAESER, Harvard University and NBER



5:00 PM Adjourn



5:45 PM Dinner

Harvard Faculty Club

20 Quincy Street

Cambridge, MA



Dinner Speaker: KATHERINE BAICKER, Council of Economic Advisers

7:45 PM Shuttle Van Departs Harvard Faculty Club for the Royal Sonesta Hotel.



8:00 PM Shuttle Van Departs Harvard Faculty Club for the Royal Sonesta Hotel.









FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3:



7:45 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.



8:00 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue. Over, Please



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8:00 AM Continental Breakfast



8:30 AM JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ, Columbia University and NBER

Dividend Taxation and Intertemporal Tax Artitrage

(Joint with Anton Korinek)



Discussant: RAJ CHETTY, University of California Berkeley and NBER



9:30 AM STEFANIA ALBANESI, Columbia University and NBER

Optimal Taxation of Entrepreneurial Capital with Private Information



Discussant: ALEH TSYVINSKI, Harvard University and NBER



10:30 AM Break



11:00 AM STEPHEN COATE, Cornell University and NBER

BRIAN KNIGHT, Brown University and NBER

Socially Optimal Districting: A Theoretical and Empirical Exploration

(Joint with Stephen Coate)



Discussant: RICHARD HOLDEN, MIT



12:00 N Lunch



1:00 PM WOODROW JOHNSON, University of Oregon

JAMES POTERBA, MIT and NBER

Taxes and the Trading Behavior of Mutual Fund Investors around Fund Distribution Dates



Discussant: WILLIAM GENTRY, Williams College

2:00 PM LEORA FRIEDBERG, University of Virginia and NBER

ANTHONY WEBB, Center for Retirement Research

Life is Cheap: Using Mortality Bonds to Hedge Aggregate Mortality Risk



Discussant: JEFFREY BROWN, University of Illinois and NBER



3:00 PM Adjourn



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