Public Economics Program Meeting
Organized by Raj Chetty and Damon Jones
October 29-30, 2020
Thursday, October 29
11:30 am

Beveridgean Unemployment Gap

Pascal Michaillat, University of California, Santa Cruz and NBER
Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
12:05 pm

The Equilibrium Effects of Public Provision in Education Markets: Evidence from a Public School Expansion Policy

Michael Dinerstein, Duke University and NBER
Christopher Neilson, Yale University and NBER
Sebastian Otero, Columbia University and NBER
12:40 pm
Lunch Break
1:30 pm

In-Kind Transfers as Insurance

Lucie Gadenne, Queen Mary, University of London
Sam Norris, University of British Columbia
Sandip Sukhtankar, University of Virginia and NBER
Monica Singhal, University of California, Davis and NBER
2:05 pm

Beyond Health: Non-Health Risk and the Value of Disability Insurance

Manasi Deshpande, University of Chicago and NBER
Lee Lockwood, University of Virginia and NBER
2:40 pm
Break
3:00 pm

Who Needs Liquidity, When, and Where? Evidence from Penalized Withdrawals

David Coyne, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Itzik Fadlon, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Tommaso Porzio, Columbia University and NBER
3:35 pm

The Social Determinants of Choice Quality: Evidence from Health Insurance in the Netherlands

Benjamin R. Handel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jonathan T. Kolstad, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Thomas Minten, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Johannes Spinnewijn, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
4:05 pm
Adjourn
Friday, October 30
11:30 am

Social Security and Trends in Inequality (slides)

Sylvain Catherine, University of Pennsylvania
Max Miller, Harvard University
Natasha Sarin, Yale University
12:05 pm

Does Taxing Business Owners Affect Employees? Evidence from a Change in the Top Marginal Tax Rate

Max Risch, Carnegie Mellon University
12:40 pm
Lunch Break
Session on Property Taxation
1:30 pm

Taxing Property in Developing Countries: Theory and Evidence from Mexico

Anne Brockmeyer, The World Bank
Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Stanford University and NBER
Alejandro Estefan Dr, University of Notre Dame
1:55 pm

Mad as Hell: Property Taxes and Financial Distress

Francis Wong, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
2:20 pm

My Taxes are Too Darn High: Tax Protests as Revealed Preferences for Redistribution

Brad C. Nathan, Rutgers University
Ricardo Perez-Truglia, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Alejandro Zentner, University of Texas at Dallas
2:45 pm
Break
3:05 pm

Worker Voice and Shared Governance: Evidence from a Reform in Finland

Jarkko Harju, Tampere University and FIT
Simon Jäger, Princeton University and NBER
Benjamin Schoefer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
3:40 pm
Adjourn