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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Public Economics Program Meeting

Raj Chetty and Mark Duggan, Organizers

November 5-6, 2015

SIEPR-Gunn Building
Room 130, 366 Galvez Street
Stanford, CA 94305

PROGRAM

Thursday, November 05:
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Florian Scheuer, Stanford University and NBER Iván Werning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER The Taxation of Superstars
1:50 pm	Benjamin B. Lockwood, Harvard University Charles G. Nathanson, Northwestern University Glen Weyl, Microsoft Corporation Taxation and the Allocation of Talent
2:40 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Daniel K. Fetter, Wellesley College and NBER Lee Lockwood, Northwestern University and NBER Government Old-Age Support and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Old Age Assistance Program
3:50 pm	Alexander M. Gelber, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Timothy J. Moore, George Washington University and NBER Alexander Strand, Social Security Administration The Effect of Disability Insurance Payments on Beneficiaries' Earnings
4:40 pm	Break
5:00 pm	Hugh Macartney, Duke University and NBER Robert McMillan, University of Toronto and NBER Uros Petronijevic, University of Toronto Education Production and Incentives
5:50 pm	Adjourn
6:30 pm	Dinner Joya Restaurant 339 University Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301
Friday, November 06:
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:20 am	Joshua Rauh, Stanford University and NBER Xavier Giroud, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER State Taxation and the Reallocation of Business Activity: Evidence from State Establishment Level Data
9:00 am	Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER Salomé Baslandze, University of Pennsylvania Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors
9:40 am	Pablo Fajgelbaum, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER Eduardo Morales, Princeton University and NBER Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato, Duke University and NBER Owen M. Zidar, University of Chicago and NBER State Taxes and Spatial Misallocation
10:20 am	Break
10:40 am	Lorenz Kueng, Northwestern University and NBER Explaining Consumption Excess Sensitivity with Near-Rationality: Evidence from Large Predetermined Payments
11:30 am	Lunch
12:10 pm	Marco Di Maggio, Columbia University Amir Kermani, University of California at Berkeley The Importance of Unemployment Insurance as an Automatic Stabilizer
1:00 pm	Pascal Michaillat, London School of Economics Emmanuel Saez, University of California at Berkeley and NBER The Optimal Use of Government Purchases for Macroeconomic Stabilization
1:50 pm	Adjourn
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