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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Public Economics Program Meeting

Raj Chetty and Justine Hastings, Organizers

November 1-2, 2012

NBER,
Martin Feldstein Conference Room, 2^nd Floor
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138

PROGRAM

Thursday, November 1, 2012
9:00 am	Shuttle Van Departs the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
9:30 am	Continental Breakfast
	Morning Session on Administrative Tax Data Organized by Raj Chetty and John Friedman
10:00 am	Sara LaLumia, William College James Sallee, University of Chicago and NBER Nicholas Turner, Department of the Treasury, New Evidence on Taxes and the Timing of Birth
10:40 am	John Sabelhaus, Federal Reserve Board Early Withdrawals from Retirement Accounts in the Great Recession
11:20 am	Break
11:30 am	Jason DeBacker, Middle Tennessee State University Bradley Heim and Anh Tran, Indiana University Alexander Yuskavage, Department of the Treasury The Lasting Impact of Enforcement: An Analysis of Corporate Tax Aggressiveness Following Audit
12:10 pm	Barry Johnson, Statistics of Income, Internal Revenue Service Update on the Statistics of Income External Researcher Program
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Eytan Sheshinski, Hebrew University Limits on Individual Choice
2:20 pm	Lorenz Kueng, Northwestern University Tax News: Identifying the Household Consumption Response to Tax Expectations using Municipal Bond Prices
3:10 pm	Break
3:40 pm	Henrik Kleven, London School of Economics Camille Landais, Stanford University Emmanuel Saez, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Taxes, Wage Bargaining and Migration: Evidence from Top-Income Foreigners in Denmark
4:30 pm	Break
5:00 pm	John Friedman and Raj Chetty Harvard University and NBER Soren Leth-Petersen and Torben Nielsen, University of Copenhagan Tore Olsen, University of Copenhagen Active vs. Passive Decisions and Crowd-out in Retirement Savings Accounts: Evidence from Denmark
5:50 pm	Adjourn
6:30 pm	Reception and Dinner Harvard Faculty Club 20 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA
	Dinner Speakers: Ron Borzekowski, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Goals and Challenges of Smart Policy Design
8:00 pm 8:15 pm 8:30 pm	Shuttle Van Departs the Harvard Faculty Club for the Royal Sonesta Hotel Shuttle Van Departs the Harvard Faculty Club for the Royal Sonesta Hotel Shuttle Van Departs the Harvard Faculty Club for the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Friday, November 2, 2012
7:45 am 8:00 am	Shuttle Van Departs the Royal Sonesta Hotel to the NBER Shuttle Van Departs the Royal Sonesta Hotel to the NBER
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	Michael Dinerstein and Pablo Villanueva, Stanford University Caroline M. Hoxby, Stanford University and NBER Jonathan Meer, Texas A&M University Did the Fiscal Stimulus Work for Universities??
9:20 am	Break
9:40 am	Ralph Koijen, University of Chicago and NBER Motohiro Yogo, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis The Cost of Financial Frictions for Life Insurers
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	John Karl Scholz, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER Ananth Seshadri, University of Madison Health and Wealth In a Lifecycle Model
11:50 am	Break
12:10 pm	Justine Hastings, Brown University and NBER Christopher Neilson and Seth Zimmerman, Yale University Determinants of Causal Returns to Postsecondary Education in Chile: Whats Luck Got to do with it?
1:00 pm	Lunch and Adjourn
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