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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Public Economics Program Meeting

Raj Chetty and Emmanuel Saez, Organizers

April 10-11, 2014

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

PROGRAM

 

Thursday, April 10

9:00 am
9:15 am

Shuttle Service from the Royal Sonesta Hotel to the NBER
Shuttle Service from the Royal Sonesta Hotel to the NBER


9:30 am


Continental Breakfast

 


Morning Session on Administrative Tax Data


10:00 am


Dayanand Manoli, University of Texas at Austin and NBER

Nicholas Turner, Department of the Treasury
The Impact of Taxpayer Notifications on EITC Use and Earnings


10:40 am


Robert McClelland and Shannon Mok, Congressional Budget Office
Kevin Pierce, Statistics of Income, Internal Revenue Service
Labor Force Participation Elasticities of Women and Secondary Earners
within Married Couples


11:20 am


Break


11:30 am


Victoria Bryant, Statistics of Income, Internal Revenue Service
David Grusky, Stanford University
Pablo Mitnik, Stanford University
Michael Weber, Statistics of Income, Internal Revenue Service
New Estimates of Intergenerational Economic Mobility Using Tax Return Data


12:10 pm


Barry Johnson, Statistics of Income, Internal Revenue Service
Update on the Statistics of Income External Researcher Program  (slides)


12:30 pm


Lunch


1:30 pm


Stefano Giglio, University of Chicago and NBER
Matteo Maggiori, New York University and NBER
Johannes Stroebel, New York University
Very Long-Run Discount Rates


2:20 pm


Paul Carrillo, George Washington University
Dina Pomeranz, Harvard University and NBER
Monica Singhal, Harvard University and NBER
Tax Me if You Can: Evidence on Firm Misreporting Behavior and Evasion Substitution


3:10 pm


Break


3:40 pm


Clemens Fuest, ZEW
Andreas Peichl, University of Mannheim, ZEW
Sebastian Siegloch
Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany


4:30 pm


Break


5:00 pm


Koichiro Ito, Boston University and NBER
James M. Sallee, University of Chicago and NBER
The Economics of Attribute-Based Regulation: Theory and Evidence from Fuel-Economy Standards


5:50 pm


Adjourn, Shuttle Service from the NBER to the Royal Sonesta Hotel


6:30 pm


Reception and Dinner

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, MA


Friday, April 11


8:00 am


Shuttle Service from the Royal Sonesta Hotel to the NBER


8:15 am


Continental Breakfast


8:50 am

 

Mark Duggan, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Amanda Starc, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Boris Vabson, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Who Benefits When the Government Pays More? Pass-Through in the Medicare Advantage Program


9:40 am

 

Jeffrey Clemens, University of California at San Diego and NBER
Joshua Gottlieb, University of British Columbia
Bargaining in the Shadow of a Giant: Medicare’s Influence on Private Payment Systems


10:30 am


Break




Session on the Macro-Effects of Unemployment Insurance


11:00 am

 

Rafael Lalive, University of Lausanne
Camille Landais, London School of Economics
Josef Zweimuller, University of Zurich
Market Externalities of Large Unemployment Insurance Extension Programs


11:40 am


Marcus Hagedorn, University of Oslo
Fatih Karahan, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Kurt Mitman, University of Pennsylvania
Unemployment Benefits and Unemployment in the Great Recession: The Role of Macro Effects


12:30 pm


Lunch and Adjourn