PUBLIC ECONOMICS PROGRAM MEETING (Mark Duggan and Amy Finkelstein, Organizers)

2^nd Floor Conference Room

THURSDAY, APRIL 5:

9:45 AM Shuttle vans from the Royal Sonesta Hotel to 1050 Mass. Avenue.

10:00AM Continental Breakfast

Behavioral Response to Taxation Meeting:

10:15 AM NICHOLAS BULL, Joint Committee on Taxation

Long-Run Tax Rates and Long-Run Growth:Macroeconomic Effects of the Aging Baby Boomers and of the Changing Federal Tax System

(Joint with Timothy Dowd)

11:00 AM PAMELA MOOMAU, Joint Committee on Taxation

Background Information About the Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model Used By the Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation in the Macroeconomic Analysis of Tax Policy

(Joint with the Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation)

and

Macroeconomic Analysis of A Proposal to Broaden the Individual Income Tax Base

and Lower Individual Income Tax Rates

(Joint with the Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation)

11:45 AM Break

12:00 N CRAIG JOHNSON and DAVID JOULFAIAN, U. S. Treasury Department

A Dynamic Analysis of Permanent Extension of the President's Tax Relief

1:00 PM Lunch

Public Economics Program Meeting:

2:00 PM RAJ CHETTY, UC, Berkeley and NBER

Salience and Taxation

(Joint with Kory Kroft and Adam Looney)

Discussant: ERZO LUTTMER, Harvard University and NBER

3:10 PM AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT and NBER

E-Z Tax: Tax Salience and Tax Rates

Discussant: AUSTAN GOOLSBEE, University of Chicago and NBER

4:20 PM Break

Over, Please!

NBER Public Economics Program Meeting, Page 2:

4:40 PM EMMANUEL SAEZ, UC, Berkeley and NBER

The Optimal Income Taxation of Couples

(Joint with Henrik Kleven and Claus Kreiner)

Discussant: NADA EISSA, Georgetown University and NBER

6:15 PM Dinner

Harvard Faculty Club

20 Quincy Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

Dinner Speaker: PETER ORSZAG, Congressional Budget Office

8:30 PM Shuttle vans from the Harvard Faculty Club to the Royal Sonesta Hotel.

8:45 PM Shuttle vans from the Harvard Faculty Club to the Royal Sonesta Hotel.

FRIDAY, APRIL 6:

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

8:00 AM Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM MARIACRISTINA DE NARDI, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and NBER

JOHN BAILEY JONES, State University of New York, Albany

Differential Mortality, Uncertain Medical Expenses, and the Saving of Elderly Singles

(Joint with Eric French)

Discussant: JOHN KARL SCHOLZ, University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER

9:40 AM DAN SILVERMAN, University of Michigan and NBER

Consumption, Retirement, and Social Security: Evaluating the

Efficiency of Reform that Encourages Longer Careers

(Joint with John Laitner)

Discussant: JEFFREY LIEBMAN, Havard University and NBER

10:50 AM Break

11:20 AM IVAN WERNING, MIT and NBER

Pareto Efficient Income Taxation

Discussant: WOJCIECH KOPCZUK, Columbia University and NBER

12:20 PM Lunch

1:20 PM MICHAEL GREENSTONE, MIT and NBER

Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from

Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the U.S.

(Joint with Olivier Deschenes)

Discussant: ROBERT MENDELSOHN, Yale University

2:30 PM Adjourn

3/23/07