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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Public Economics Program Meeting

Amy Finkelstein and Karl Scholz, Organizers

March 29-30, 2012

NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

Thursday, March 29, 2012
11:30 am	Shuttle Van from the Royal Sonesta to the NBER
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Henrik Kleven and Mazhar Waseem, London School of Economics Behavioral Responses to Notches: Evidence from Pakistani Tax Records Discussant: Ben Olken, MIT and NBER
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Liran Einav and Jonathan Levin , Stanford University and NBER Dan Knoepfle, Stanford University Neel Sundaresan, eBay Research Labs Sales Taxes and Internet Commerce Discussant: Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago and NBER
3:45 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Justine Hastings, Brown University and NBER Ali Hortascu and Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER Advertising and Competition in Privatized Social Security: The Case of Mexico Discussant: Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER
5:15 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Reception and Dinner Harvard Faculty Club 20 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA Dinner Speaker: Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago and NBER
8:15 pm 8:25 pm	Shuttle Van Departs the Harvard Faculty Club for the Royal Sonesta Shuttle Van Departs the Harvard Faculty Club for the Royal Sonesta
Friday, March 30, 2012
7:45 am 8:00 am	Shuttle Van from the Royal Sonesta to the NBER Shuttle Van from the Royal Sonesta to the NBER
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	Jonathan Kolstad, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Amanda Kowalski, Yale University and NBER Mandate-Based Health Reform and the Labor Market: Evidence from the Massachusetts Reform Discussant: Jonathan Gruber, MIT and NBER
9:45 am	Break
10:00 am	Aviva Aron-Dine, MIT Mark Cullen and Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER Amy Finkelstein, MIT and NBER Moral Hazard in Health Insurance: How Important is Forward Looking Behavior?? Discussant: Jeffrey Liebman, Harvard University and NBER
11:15 am	David Albouy, University of Michigan and NBER Gabriel Ehrlich, University of Michigan Metropolitan Land Values and Housing Productivity Discussant: Matthew Notowidigdo, University of Chicago and NBER
12:30 pm	Lunch and Adjourn

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