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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Public Economics Program Meeting

Amy Finkelstein and Brian Knight, Organizers

April 4-5, 2013

NBER
Feldstein Conference Room, Second Floor

1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Thursday, April 4
11:15 am	Shuttle Van from the Royal Sonesta Hotel to the NBER
11:30 am	Shuttle Van from the Royal Sonesta Hotel to the NBER
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	Eric Verhoogan, Columbia University
	Enlisting Workers in Monitoring Firms: Payroll Tax Compliance in Mexico (with Todd Kumler and Judith Frias) Discussant: Monica Singhal, Harvard University and NBER
2:10 pm	Patrick Kline, University of California at Berkeley and NBER What Distributional Impacts Mean: Welfare Reform Experiments and Competing Margins of Adjustment (with Melissa Tartari) Discussant: John Friedman, Harvard University and NBER
3:20 pm	Break
3:35 pm	Casey Rothschild, Wellesley College Redistributive Taxation in the Roy Model (with Florian Scheuer) Discussant: Matt Weinzierl, Harvard University and NBER
4:45 pm	Break
5:00 pm	Mikhail Golosov, Princeton University and NBER Optimal Taxes on Fossil Fuel in General Equilibrium (with John Hassler, Per Krusell and Aleh Tsyvinski) Discussant: Rob Williams, University of Maryland and NBER
6:10 pm	Adjourn
6:15 pm 6:45 pm	Shuttle Van from the NBER to the Royal Sonesta Hotel Shuttle Van from the NBER to the Royal Sonesta Hotel
7:00 pm	Reception and Dinner Royal Sonesta Hotel, Room Skyline AB Dinner speaker: Hans-Werner Sinn “The Euro Crisis”
Friday, April 5
7:30 am 8:00 am 8:30 am		Shuttle Van from the Royal Sonesta Hotel to the NBER Shuttle Van from the Royal Sonesta Hotel to the NBER Shuttle Van from the Royal Sonesta Hotel to the NBER
8:00 am		Continental Breakfast
8:30 am		James Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER The Drawdown of Personal Retirement Assets: Husbanding or Squandering? (with Steven Venti and David Wise) Discussant: Karl Scholz, University of Wisconsin and NBER
9:10 am		Heidi Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Do fixed Patent Terms Distort Innovation? Evidence from Cancer Clinical Trials (with Eric Budish and Benjamin Roin) Discussant: Jonathan Skinner, Dartmouth College and NBER
10:20 am		Break
10:35 am		Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Equilibrium Labor Market Search and Health Insurance Reform (with Naoki Aizawa) Discussant: Kate Ho, Columbia University and NBER
11:45 am		Lunch
Afternoon: Joint Afternoon Session with Insurance Working Group (co-organized with Liran Einav and Ken Froot).
1:00 pm			Ben Handel, UC Berkeley and NBER
			Health Insurance for Humans: Information Frictions Plan Choice and Consumer Welfare (with Jonathan Kolstad)
			Discussant: Johannes Spinnewijn, London School of Economics
2:10 pm			Keith Ericson, Boston University and NBER
			How Product Standardization Affects Choice: Evidence from the Massachusetts Health Insurance Exchange (with Amanda Starc)
			Discussant: Neale Mahoney, University of Chicago and NBER
3:20 pm			Break
3:35 pm			Jeff Brown, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and NBER
			Do Consumers Know How to Value Annuities? Complexity as a Barrier to Annuitization (with Arie Kapteyn, Erzo Luttmer, and Olivia Mitchell)
			Discussant: Lee Lockwood, Northwestern University and NBER
4:45 pm			Break
5:00 pm			Levon Barseghyan, Cornell University
			Inference under Stability of Risk Preferences (with Francesca Molinari and Joshua Teitelbaum)
			Discussant: Nathan Hendren, Harvard University and NBER
6:10 pm			Adjourn
7:00 pm			Insurance Working Group Dinner –Location TBA
			Note: The Insurance Working Group will continue their meeting on their own Saturday, April 6. PE Program members are welcome to attend. The program is available at http://conference.nber.org/confer/2013/INSs13/inss13prg.html

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