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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE TO TAXATION

Raj Chetty, Organizer

PUBLIC ECONOMICS PROGRAM MEETING

Raj Chetty and Amy Finkelstein, Organizers

October 29-30, 2009

NBER Offices,

2^nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29:
9:30 am	Shuttle vans from the Royal Sonesta Hotel to 1050 Mass. Avenue
9:45 am	Continental Breakfast
Behavioral Response to Taxation Meeting:
10:00 am	ADAM COLE, U.S. Treasury Department
	Christmas in August: Prices and Quantities During Sales Tax Holidays
11:00 am	ITHAI LURIE, U.S. Treasury Department
	BRADLEY HEIM, U.S. Treasury Department
	The Effect of Health Insurance Premium Subsidies on Entry into and Exit from Self-Employment
Public Economics Program Meeting:
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	ALEXANDER GELBER, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
	JOSHUA MITCHELL, Harvard University
	Taxes and Time Allocation
	Discussant: BRUCE MEYER, University of Chicago and NBER
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	JAMES HINES, University of Michigan and NBER
	ALISON FELIX, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
	Corporate Taxes and Union Wages in the United States
	Discussant: ALAN AUERBACH, UC, Berkeley and NBER
3:45 pm	Break
4:00 pm	EMMANUEL SAEZ, UC, Berkeley and NBER
	HENRIK KLEVEN, London School of Economics
	CLAUS KREINER, University of Copenhagen
	Unwilling or Unable to Cheat? Evidence from a Randomized Tax Audit Experiment in Denmark
	Discussant: JOHN FRIEDMAN, Harvard University and NBER
5:15 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Reception and Dinner
	Harvard Faculty Club
	20 Quincy Street
	Cambridge, MA
	Dinner Speaker: SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN, Harvard University and NBER
	Behavioral Public Finance in Practice
8:00 pm	Shuttle van from the Harvard Faculty Club to the Royal Sonesta Hotel
8:15 pm	Shuttle van from the Harvard Faculty Club to the Royal Sonesta Hotel
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30:
7:45 am	Shuttle Vans Departs from Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass Avenue.
8:00 am	Shuttle Vans Departs from Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass Avenue
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	FABIAN DUARTE, Yale University
	JUSTINE HASTINGS, Yale University and NBER
	Fettered Consumers and Sophisticated Firms: Evidence from Mexico’s Privatized Social Security Market
	Discussant: BRIGITTE MADIRAN, Harvard University and NBER
9:45 am	Break
10:00 am	PATRICK BAJARI, University of Minnesota and NBER
	GREGORY LEWIS, Harvard University and NBER
	Procurement Contracting with Time Incentives: Theory and Evidence
	Discussant: JUSTIN MARION, UC, Santa Cruz
11:15 am	MIKHAIL GOLOSOV and ALEH TSYVINSKI , Yale University and NBER
	MATTHEW WEINZIERL, Harvard University
	Preference Heterogeneity and Optimal Commodity Taxation
	Discussant: LOUIS KAPLOW, Harvard University and NBER
12:30 pm	Lunch
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