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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 Research
      
                   
   
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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 London
      
                   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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