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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2012 Public Economics, Taxation & Social Insurance

Amy Finkelstein, Raj Chetty, and David Card, Organizers

July 24, 2012

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Skyline D/E

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

Tuesday, July 24:
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Morning session is joint with Labor Studies
8:30 am	Alexander M. Gelber, University of Pennsylvania Damon Jones, University of Chicago and NBER Daniel W. Sacks, University of Pennsylvania Individual Earnings Adjustment to Policy: Evidence from the Social Security Earnings Test
9:20 am	Kory Kroft, Yale University Fabian Lange, Yale University Matthew J. Notowidigdo, University of Chicago and NBER Duration Dependence and Labor Market Conditions: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment
10:10 am	Break
10:30 am	Hitoshi Shigeoka, Simon Fraser University The Effect of Patient Cost-sharing on Utilization, Health and Risk Protection: Evidence from Japan
11:20 am	Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto Mario Macis, Johns Hopkins University Robert Slonim, University of Sydney Short-Term, Long-Term, Social and Spatial Effects of Incentives for Pro-social Behavior: Micro Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
12:10 pm	Lunch

	Taxation and Social Insurance Session Continues Separately
1:15 pm	Johannes Spinnewijn, London School of Economics Heterogeneity, Demand for Insurance and Adverse Selection
2:05 pm	Spencer Bastani and Hakan Selin, Uppsala Univeristy Bunching and Non-Bunching at Kink Points of the Swedish Tax Schedule
2:55 pm	Break
3:10pm	Matthew C. Weinzierl, Harvard University and NBER Why do we Redistribute so Much but Tag so Little: The Principle of Equal Sacrifice and Optimal Taxation
	Joint Session with Labor Studies Resumes
4:05 pm	Patrick Kline, University of California at Berkeley and NBER (with David Card) Firm Pay Policies and the Rise of Wage Inequality
4:55 pm	Panel Discussion: Accessing and Using Administrative Records for Labor Market Research Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER (with Emmanuel Saez and Laszlo Sandor) What Policies Motivate Pro-Social Behavior? An Experiment with Referees at the Journal of Public Economics John Abowd, Cornell University and LEHD Stefan Bender, IAB Germany
5:45 pm	Adjourn