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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2014

 

Public Economics: Taxation and Social Insurance

 

Raj Chetty and Amy Finkelstein, Co-Organizers

 

July 22, 2014

 

Skyline Rooms DE

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

  

TUESDAY, JULY 22:

 

 

  MORNING SESSION JOINT WITH LABOR STUDIES


8:00 am


Coffee and Pastries


8:30 am


Alexander M. Gelber, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Adam Isen, Department of the Treasury
Judd Kessler, University of Pennsylvania
The Effect of Youth Employment on Future Earnings: Evidence from Summer Youth Employment Program Lotteries


9:20 am


Arash Nekoei, Harvard University
Andrea Weber, University of Mannheim
Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?


10:10 am


Break


10:30 am


Ioana Marinescu, University of Chicago
The General Equilibrium Impacts of Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from a Large Online Job Board


11:20 am


Lars Lefgren, Brigham Young University
David Sims, Brigham Young University
Olga B. Stoddard, Brigham Young University
Did You Build That? Effort, Luck,and Voting for Redistribution


12:10 pm


Lunch

PUBLIC ECONOMICS: TAXATION AND SOCIAL INSURANCE SESSION

1:20 pm

Nadja Dwenger, Max Planck Institute
Henrik Kleven, London School of Economics
Imran Rasul, University College London
Johannes Rincke. FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivations for Tax Compliance: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Germany

2:15 pm

Florian Scheuer, Stanford University and NBER
Alexander Wolitzky, Stanford University
Capital Taxation under Political Constraints


3:10 pm


Break


3:25 pm


Eric Zwick, Harvard University
James Mahon, Harvard University
Do Financial Frictions Amplify Fiscal Policy? Evidence from Business Investment Stimulus

Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato. Stanford University
Owen Zidar, University of California at Berkeley
Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Markets Approach with Heterogeneous Firms

Danny Yagan, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Capital Tax Reform and the Real Economy: The Effects of the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut

5:25 pm

Adjourn