NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

PUBLIC ECONOMICS PROGRAM MEETING

Raj Chetty and Amy Finkelstein, Organizers

 

April 2-3, 2009

 

NBER Offices,

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

 

PROGRAM 

                       

THURSDAY, APRIL 2:

 

12:00 pm           Lunch

 

1:00 pm             PETER DIAMOND, MIT and NBER

                        Capital Income Taxes with Heterogeneous Discount Rates

                        (Joint with Johannes Spinnewijn)

 

                        Discussant:        LOUIS KAPLOW, Harvard University and NBER

 

2:00 pm             BENJAMIN OLKEN, MIT and NBER

                        MONICA SINGHAL, Harvard University and NBER

                        Informal Taxation

 

                        Discussant:        WOJCIECH KOPZCUK, Columbia University and NBER

 

3:15 pm             RAJ CHETTY, UC, Berkeley and NBER

                        Bounds on Elasticities with Optimization Frictions:          

                        An Application to Taxation and Labor Supply

                       

                        Discussant:        GUIDO IMBENS, Harvard University and NBER

 

4:30 pm             LAURENCE KOTLIKOFF, Boston University and NBER

                        The True Cost of  Social Security            

                        (Joint with Alexander Blocker and Stephen Ross)

 

                        Discussant:        JEFFREY BROWN, University of Illinois and NBER

 

5:30 pm             Adjourn

 

6:00 pm             Reception and Dinner

                        Harvard Faculty Club

                        20 Quincy Street

                        Cambridge, MA

                        Dinner Speaker:  MICHAEL GREENSTONE, Council of Economic Advisers

                                                                                                                                              

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, APRIL 3:

 

8:00 am             Shuttle Vans Departs from Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass Avenue.

 

8:15 am             Shuttle Vans Departs from Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass Avenue

 

8:30 am             Continental Breakfast

 

9:00 am             KEVIN MILLIGAN, University of British Columbia and NBER

                        Do Child Tax Benefits Affect the Well Being of Children?

                        Evidence From Canadian Child Benefits

                        (Joint with Mark Stabile)

 

                        Discussant:        GORDON DAHL, University of California San Diego and NBER

 

10:00 am           EDWARD MIGUEL, UC, Berkeley and NBER

                        Government Transfers and Political Support

                        (Joint with Marco Manacorda and Andrea Vigorito)

 

                        Discussant:        BRIAN KNIGHT, Brown University and NBER

 

11:15 am           JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER

                        Choice Inconsistencies Among the Elderly:

                        Evidence from Plan Choice in the Medicare Part D Program

                        (Joint with Jason Abaluck)

 

                        Discussant:        FIONA SCOTT MORTON, Yale University and NBER

 

12:15 pm           Lunch

 

1:15 pm             Adjourn

 

3/23/09