Public Economics Program Meeting
Organized by Marika Cabral and Jacob Goldin
October 24-25, 2024
Riverfront Room, Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, October 24
11:30am
Lunch, Longfellow Room, Royal Sonesta Hotel
12:45pm

Insurance versus Moral Hazard in Income-Contingent Student Loan Repayment

Tim de Silva, Stanford University
1:20pm

Student Loan Forgiveness

Michael Dinerstein, Duke University and NBER
Samuel Earnest, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dmitri K. Koustas, University of Chicago
Constantine Yannelis, University of Cambridge
1:55pm
Break
2:15pm

How Much Do Unrealized Gains and Borrowing Reduce the Rich’s Income Taxes? (slides)

Edward Fox, University of Michigan
Zachary Liscow, Yale University
2:45pm

Medicaid-ing Coverage Volatility: Evidence from the 2019 Virginia Medicaid Expansion (slides)

Bradley Heim, University of Central Florida
Ithai Lurie, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Elena Patel, The Brookings Institution
Shanthi Ramnath, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
3:15pm

Optimal Policy Reforms

Katy Bergstrom, Tulane University
William Dodds, Tulane University
Juan Fernando Rios Rivera, PUC Rio
3:45pm
Break
4:05pm

How Do Consumers Finance Increased Retirement Savings? (slides)

Taha Choukhmane, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Christopher Palmer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
4:40pm

(Not) Thinking about the Future: Inattention and Maternal Labor Supply

Ana Costa-Ramón, University of Zurich
Ursina Schaede, Tufts University
Michaela Slotwinski, University of Zurich
Anne Ardila Brenøe, University of Zurich
5:15pm
Adjourn
6:00pm
Dinner, Longfellow Room, Royal Sonesta Hotel
Friday, October 25
8:00am
Breakfast
8:30am

Parents' Earnings and the Returns to Universal Pre-Kindergarten

John Eric Humphries, Yale University and NBER
Christopher Neilson, Yale University and NBER
Xiaoyang Ye, Brown University
Seth D. Zimmerman, Yale University and NBER
9:05am

Legal Assistance for Evictions: Impacts, Mechanisms, and Demand

Aviv Caspi, Stanford University
Charlie Rafkin, University of California, Berkeley
9:40am
Break
10:00am

Unemployment Insurance Fraud in the Debit Card Market

Umang Khetan, University of Iowa
Jetson Leder-Luis, Boston University and NBER
Jialan Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Yunrong Zhou, Purdue University
10:25am

Unemployment Insurance During the Pandemic


Note: This presentation will not be livestreamed.
Adam Isen, Johns Hopkins University
Elira Kuka, The George Washington University and NBER
Bryan A. Stuart, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
10:50am

Disemployment Effects of Unemployment Insurance: A Meta-Analysis

Jonathan P. Cohen, Amazon, Inc.
Peter Ganong, University of Chicago and NBER
11:15am
Break
11:35am

Confounded? Welfare Reform and the Earned Income Tax Credit in the 1990s (slides)

Adam Looney, University of Utah
12:10pm
Lunch, Longfellow Room, Royal Sonesta Hotel
1:10pm

The Political Economy of Stimulus Transfers

Silvia Vannutelli, Northwestern University and NBER
1:45pm

A Welfare Analysis of Policies Impacting Climate Change

Robert W. Hahn, University of Oxford
Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Robert D. Metcalfe, Columbia University and NBER
Ben Sprung-Keyser, Wharton School
2:20pm
Adjourn