Public Economics Program Meeting
Organized by Ricardo Perez-Truglia and Gabriel Zucman
October 27-28, 2022
Hyatt Regency, Charles View Ballroom, 575 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, October 27
11:00 am

Wealth and Property Taxation in the United States (slides)

Sacha Dray, The World Bank
Camille Landais, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER
11:40 am

The Value of Private Business in the United States

Jacob Robbins, University of Illinois at Chicago
Richard C. Campbell, University of Illinois at Chicago
12:20 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

Technology and Tax Capacity: Evidence from Local Governments in Ghana

Anders Jensen, Harvard University and NBER
David Lagakos, Boston University and NBER
James Dzansi, International Growth Centre
Henry Telli, International Growth Centre
1:40 pm

How the Design of Algorithms for Taxpayer Audits Affects the Distribution of Audited Taxpayers by Race

Hadi Elzayn, Stanford University
Evelyn A. Smith, University of Michigan
Tom Hertz, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Robin Fisher, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Daniel E. Ho, Stanford University
Jacob Goldin, University of Chicago and NBER
2:20 pm
Break
2:40 pm

Becoming Legible to the State: The Role of Detection and Enforcement Capacity in Tax Compliance

Oyebola Okunogbe, World Bank Research Group
3:20 pm

Revealing 21% of GDP in Hidden Assets: Evidence from Argentina’s Tax Amnesties (slides)

Juliana Londoño-Vélez, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Dario Tortarolo, Development Research Group (DECRG), World Bank
4:00 pm
Break
4:20 pm

Optimal Assignment of Bureaucrats: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Tax Collectors in the DRC

Augustin Bergeron, Harvard University and NBER
Pedro Bessone, Uber Technologies
John Kabeya Kabeya, Direction Générale des Recettes du Kasai Central
Gabriel Z. Tourek, University of Pittsburgh and NBER
Jonathan L. Weigel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
5:30 pm
Reception and Group Dinner, Mount Auburn Ballroom
Keynote address by Natasha Sarin, Department of the Treasury (this event will be in-person only)
Friday, October 28
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:20 am

The Impact of Incarceration on Employment and Earnings

Andrew Garin, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Dmitri K. Koustas, University of Chicago
Carl McPherson, University of California, Berkeley
Samuel Norris, University of British Columbia
Matthew Pecenco, Brown University
Evan K. Rose, University of Chicago and NBER
Yotam Shem-Tov, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Jeffrey Weaver, University of Southern California
10:00 am

The Political Economy of Subsidy Giving

Cailin R. Slattery, University of California, Berkeley
10:20 am
Break
11:00 am

Monitoring, Organizational Culture, and the Efficiency of Public Procurement

Pablo A. Celhay, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Paul Gertler, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Marcelo Olivares, Universidad de Chile
Raimundo Undurraga, Universidad de Chile
11:40 am

Growing Up Over the Social Safety Net: The Effects of a Cash Transfer Program on the Transition to Adulthood

Matias Giaccobasso, VATT Institute for Economic Research and FIT
12:20 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

How Much do Borrowers Value Student Debt Relief? Evidence from the Teacher Loan Forgiveness Program

Brian Jacob, University of Michigan and NBER
Damon Jones, University of Chicago and NBER
Benjamin J. Keys, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
1:40 pm

The Power of Certainty: Experimental Evidence on the Effective Design of Free Tuition Programs

Elizabeth Burland, University of Michigan
Susan Dynarski, Harvard University and NBER
Katherine Michelmore, University of Michigan and NBER
Stephanie Owen, Colby College
Shwetha Raghuraman, Aarhus University
2:20 pm
Adjourn