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Behavioral Response to Taxation Meeting

Raj Chetty and Emmanuel Saez, Organizers

Public Economics Program Meeting

Amy Finkelstein and Erzo F.P. Luttmer, Organizers

November 4-5, 2010

NBER, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Thursday, November 4
Behavioral Response to Taxation Meeting Raj Chetty and Emmanuel Saez, Organizers
Analyzing Income and Wealth using Tax Return Data
10:00 am	Raj Chetty and Emmanuel Saez Introductory Remarks: The Value of U.S. Tax Return Data for Research
10:10 am	Jon Bakija, Williams College Adam Cole, U.S. Department of Treasury Bradley Heim, Indiana University Jobs and Income Growth of Top Earners and the Causes of Changing Income Inequality: Evidence from U.S. Tax Return Data
10:45 am	Break
11:00 am	Jenny Wahl, Carleton College Lisa Schreiber Rosenmerkel, Internal Revenue Service Crossing the Bar: Predicting Wealth from Income and Estate Tax Records
11:30 am	Joseph Newcomb, Brian Raub and Barry Johnson, Internal Revenue Service A Comparison of Wealth Estimates for America’s Wealthiest Decedents Using Tax Data and Data from the Forbes 400
Public Economics Program Meeting Amy Finkelstein and Erzo Luttmer, Organizers
12:00 noon	Lunch
1:00 pm	Atif R. Mian, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Amir Sufi, University of Chicago and NBER The Effects of Fiscal Stimulus: Evidence from the 2009 ‘Cash for Clunkers’ Program Discussant: Jonathan A. Parker, Northwestern University and NBER
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University and NBER Ivan Werning, MIT and NBER Insurance and Taxation Over the Life Cycle Discussant: Stefania Albanesi, Columbia University and NBER
3:45 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Jesse Cunha, Stanford University Giacomo DeGiorgi, Stanford University and NBER Seema Jayachandran, Stanford University and NBER The Price Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers Discussant: Stephen Coate, Cornell University and NBER
5:15 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Reception and Dinner, Harvard Faculty Club Dinner speaker: Jeffrey Liebman, Harvard University and NBER Title: “Two Perspectives on the Federal Budget”
Friday, November 5 Public Economics Program Meeting
7:30 am	Shuttle Van from the Royal Sonesta to the NBER
8:00 am	Shuttle Van from the Royal Sonesta to the NBER
8:00 am	Breakfast
8:30 am	Jeffrey Liebman, Harvard University and NBER Neale Mahoney, Stanford University Do Expiring Budgets Lead to Wasteful Year-End Spending? Evidence from Federal Procurement Discussant: Douglas Holtz-Eakin, American Action Forum
9:45 am	Break
10:00 am	Damon Jones, University of Chicago and NBER Inertia and Overwithholding: Explaining the Prevalence of Income Tax Refunds Discussant: Joel Slemrod, University of Michigan and NBER
11:15 am	Syngjoo Choi, University College London Shachar Kariv, UC Berkeley Wieland Müller, Tilburg University Dan Silverman, University of Michigan and NBER Who Is (More) Rational? Discussant: Matthew Levy, Harvard University
12:30 pm	Lunch and Adjourn

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