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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2011
Public Economics: Taxation and Social Insurance Workshop
David Card, Raj Chetty and Amy Finkelstein, Organizers
July 26, 2011
Royal Sonesta Hotel Skyline Suites D,E
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, Massachusetts
PROGRAM
Tuesday, July 26:
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
MORNING SESSION JOINT WITH LABOR STUDIES
8:30 am	Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER John Friedman, Harvard University and NBER Emmanuel Saez, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Neighborhood and Peer Effects in Tax Policy: Evidence from the EITC and Saver's Credit
9:20 am	Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Sarah Taubman, NBER Heidi Allen, CORE Mira Bernstein, NBER Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Joseph P. Newhouse, Harvard University and NBER Bill Wright, CORE Kate Baicker, Harvard University and NBER The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the first year
10:20 am	Break
10:30 am	Jesse Rothstein, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Unemployment Insurance and Job Search in the Great Recession
11:20 am	Alan Krueger, Princeton University and NBER Andreas Mueller, Stockholm University Job Search and Job Finding in a Period of Mass Unemployment
12:10 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Fiscal Stimulus Session I N. Gregory Mankiw, Harvard University and NBER Matthew Weinzierl, Harvard University and NBER An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization Policy
	Emi Nakamura, Columbia University and NBER Jon Steinsson, Columbia University and NBER
	Fiscal Stimulus in a Monetary Union: Evidence from U.S. Regions
2:25 pm	Break
2:40 pm	Fiscal Stimulus Session II Daniel Shoag, Harvard University
	The Impact of Government Spending Shocks: Evidence on the Multiplier from State Pension Plan Returns
	Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato, University of California at Berkeley
	Philippe Wingender, University of California at Berkeley
	Estimating Local Fiscal Multipliers
	Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, University of California at Berkeley Laura Feiveson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Zachary Liscow, University of California at Berkeley William Gui Woolston, Stanford University
	Does State Fiscal Relief During Recessions Increase Employment? Evidence from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
	Daniel J Wilson, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
	Fiscal Spending Job Multipliers: Evidence from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
4:00 pm	Break
4:15 pm	Hunt Allcott, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University and NBER Dmitry Taubinsky, Harvard University
	Externalizing the Internality
5:00 pm	Adjourn