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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC

 

PUBLIC ECONMOMICS PROGRAM MEETING

Raj Chetty and Wojciech Kopczuk, Organizers

 

April 8-9, 2010

 

NBER  Offices,

Martin Feldstein Conference Room, 2nd Floor

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

 

PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, APRIL 8:

 

 

12:00 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

MIKHAIL GOLOSOV and ALEH TSYVINSKI, Yale University and NBER

 

Optimal Dynamic Taxes

 

(Joint with Maxiam Troshkin)

 

 

 

Discussant:       PETER DIAMOND, MIT and NBER 

 

 

2:00 pm

BRIAN G. KNIGHT, Brown University and NBER

 

NATHAN SCHIFF, University of British Columbia

 

Spatial Competition and Cross-Border Shopping: Evidence from State Lotteries

 

 

 

Discussant:       JONATHAN GURYAN, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

3:15 pm

ROGER H. GORDON and JULIE BERRY CULLEN, UC, San Diego

                                                                                                         and NBER

 

Income Redistribution in a Federal System of Governments

 

 

 

Discussant:       STEPHEN COATE, Cornell University and NBER

 

 

4:30 pm

JAMES SALLEE, University of Chicago

 

JOEL SLEMROD, University of Michigan and NBER

 

Car Notches

 

 

 

Discussant:       RAJ CHETTY, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

5:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

6:00 pm

Dinner

 

Inn at Harvard

 

1201 Massachusetts Avenue

 

Cambridge, MA

 

 

 

DINNER SPEAKER:   ALAN KRUEGER, U.S. Department of the Treasury

 

 

8:15 pm

Shuttle Van Departs the Inn at Harvard for the Royal Sonesta

8:25 pm

Shuttle Van Departs the Inn at Harvard for the Royal Sonesta

 

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 9:

 

 

8:15 am

Shuttle Van Departs the Royal Sonesta for NBER

8:30 am

Shuttle Van Departs the Royal Sonesta for NBER

 

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

MICHAEL ANDERSON, UC, Berkeley

 

CARLOS DOBKIN, UC, Santa Cruz and NBER

 

TAL GROSS, University of Miami

 

The Effect of Health Insurance Coverage on the Use of Medical Services

 

 

 

Discussant:       DAVID CUTLER, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

10:00 am

TILL VON WACHTER, Columbia University and NBER

 

JAE SONG, Social Security Administration

 

JOYCE MANCHESTER, Congressional Budget Office

 

Trends in Employment and Earnings of Allowed and Rejected Applicants to the Social Security Disability Insurance Program

 

 

 

Discussant:       DAVID AUTOR, MIT and NBER

 

 

11:15 am

BENJAMIN OLKEN, MIT and NBER

 

ABHIJIT BANERJEE, MIT and NBER

 

REMA HANNA, Harvard University and NBER

 

Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

 

(Joint with Vivi Alatas and Julia Tobias)

 

 

 

Discussant:       HILARY HOYNES, UC, Davis and NBER

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:15 pm

Adjourn

 

 

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