Public Economics Program Meeting
Organized by Amy Finkelstein and Neale Mahoney
October 24-25, 2019
Gleacher Center, Room 406, 450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive, Chicago, IL 60611
Thursday, October 24
9:30 am
Continental Breakfast
10:10 am

Bidding for Firms: Subsidy Competition in the U.S.

Cailin R. Slattery, University of California, Berkeley
11:00 am

Payday Lending, Self Control, and Consumer Protection

Hunt Allcott, Stanford University and NBER
Joshua J. Kim, Stanford University
Dmitry Taubinsky, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth College and NBER
11:50 am
Lunch- Lobby Lounge (Lobby Level)
1:10 pm

Behavioral Responses to State Income Taxation of High Earners: Evidence from California

Joshua Rauh, Stanford University and NBER
Ryan J. Shyu, Amazon.com, Inc.
2:00 pm

Can Wealth Taxation Work in Developing Countries? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Colombia

Juliana Londono-Velez, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
2:50 pm
Break
3:20 pm

Targeting In-Kind Transfers Through Market Design: A Revealed Preference Analysis of Public Housing Allocation

Daniel C. Waldinger, New York University and NBER
4:10 pm

Is Spending on Schools Efficient? A National Study of the Capitalization of School Spending and Local Taxes

Patrick Bayer, Duke University and NBER
Peter Q. Blair, Harvard University and NBER
Kenneth Whaley, University of South Florida
5:00 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Dinner
HaiSous Vietnamese Kitchen
1800 S. Carpenter Street
Chicago, IL
Friday, October 25
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:20 am

A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies

Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Benjamin D. Sprung-Keyser, Wharton School
10:10 am
Break
10:40 am

Tax Policy and Lumpy Investment Behavior: Evidence from China’s VAT Reform

Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Stanford University and NBER
Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER
Xian Jiang, University of California, Davis
Zhao Chen, Fudan University
Zhikuo Liu, Fudan University
11:30 am

Rational Illiquidity and the Marginal Propensity to Consume: Theory and Evidence from Income Tax Withholding and Refunds

Michael Gelman, Claremont McKenna College
Shachar Kariv, University of California, Berkeley
Matthew D. Shapiro, University of Michigan and NBER
Dan Silverman, Amazon, Inc.
12:20 pm
Lunch-Lobby Lounge (Lobby Level) and Adjourn