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Public Economics Program Meeting
Organized by Raj Chetty and Mark Duggan
November 5-6, 2015
SIPER, Stanford, CA 94305
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Thursday, November 5
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1:00 pm
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The Taxation of Superstars
Florian Scheuer, University of Zurich
Iván Werning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
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1:50 pm
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Taxation and the Allocation of Talent
Ben B. Lockwood, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Charles G. Nathanson, Michigan State University
Glen Weyl, Microsoft
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3:00 pm
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Government Old-Age Support and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Old Age Assistance Program
Daniel K. Fetter, Dartmouth College and NBER
Lee Lockwood, University of Virginia and NBER
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3:50 pm
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The Effect of Disability Insurance Payments on Beneficiaries' Earnings
Alexander M. Gelber, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Timothy J. Moore, Purdue University and NBER
Alexander Strand, Social Security Administration
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5:00 pm
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Education Production and Incentives
Hugh Macartney, Duke University
Robert McMillan, University of Toronto and NBER
Uros Petronijevic, York University
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Friday, November 6
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8:30 am
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State Taxation and the Reallocation of Business Activity: Evidence from Establishment Level Data
Xavier Giroud, Columbia University and NBER
Joshua Rauh, Stanford University and NBER
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9:10 am
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Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors
Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER
Salomé Baslandze, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER
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9:50 am
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State Taxes and Spatial Misallocation
Pablo Fajgelbaum, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Eduardo Morales, Princeton University and NBER
Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato, Stanford University and NBER
Owen M. Zidar, Princeton University and NBER
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10:50 am
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Explaining Consumption Excess Sensitivity with Near-Rationality: Evidence from Large Predetermined Payments
Lorenz Kueng, Swiss Finance Institute
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12:40 pm
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The Importance of Unemployment Insurance as an Automatic Stabilizer
Marco Di Maggio, Imperial College Business School
Amir Kermani, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
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1:30 pm
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The Optimal Use of Government Purchases for Macroeconomic Stabilization
Pascal Michaillat, University of California, Santa Cruz and NBER
Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
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