Public Economics Program Meeting
Organized by Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, and Eric Zwick
April 4-5, 2019
NBER, 2nd Floor Conference Room, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, April 4
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
Morning Session: Empirical Research Using Administrative Tax Data
9:00 am

The Use and Misuse of Income Data and the Rarity of Extreme Poverty in the United States

Bruce D. Meyer, University of Chicago and NBER
Derek Wu, University of Virginia
Victoria D. Mooers, University of Chicago
9:30 am

Manning Up and Womaning Down: How Husbands and Wives Report Their Earnings When She Earns More (slides)

Marta Murray-Close, U.S. Census Bureau
Misty L. Heggeness, University of Kansas
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am

Does the Individual Mandate Affect Insurance Coverage? Evidence from the Population of Tax Returns

Daniel W. Sacks, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Bradley Heim, University of Central Florida
Ithai Lurie, U.S. Department of the Treasury
10:45 am

Increasing Hours Worked: Moonlighting Responses to a Large Tax Reform

Alisa Tazhitdinova, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am

High-frequency Spending Responses to the Earned Income Tax Credit

Aditya Aladangady, University of Michigan
Shifrah Aron-Dine, University of California, Berkeley
David Cashin, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Wendy Dunn, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Laura Feiveson, U. S. Department of Treasury
Paul Lengermann, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Katherine Richard, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Claudia R. Sahm, Jain Family Institute
12:00 pm

Do EITC Expansions Pay for Themselves? Effects on Tax Revenue and Public Assistance Spending

Jacob Bastian, Rutgers University and NBER
Maggie R. Jones, U.S. Census Bureau
12:30 pm
Lunch
1:20 pm

Program Recertification Costs: Evidence from SNAP

Tatiana Homonoff, New York University and NBER
Jason Somerville, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
2:10 pm

Subsidy Targeting with Market Power

Maria Polyakova, Stanford University and NBER
Stephen P. Ryan, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm

The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Urban Transit Infrastructure: Evidence from Bogotá's TransMilenio

John N. Tsivanidis, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
4:20 pm
Break
4:30 pm

We are all Behavioral, More or Less: Measuring and Using Consumer-Level Behavioral Sufficient Statistics

Victor Stango, University of California, Davis
Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth College and NBER
5:20 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Dinner
Royal Sonesta Hotel
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, MA
Dinner Speakers: Emmanuel Saez and Lawrence H. Summers
Conversation on U.S. Wealth Tax Proposals
Friday, April 5
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

Job Displacement Insurance and (the Lack of) Consumption-Smoothing

François Gerard, University College London
Joana Naritomi, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
9:50 am
Break
10:05 am

Measuring Unfair Inequality: Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty

Paul Hufe, University of Bristol
Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University
Andreas Peichl, University of Munich
10:55 am
Break
11:10 am

Take-Up, Drop-Out, and Spending in ACA Marketplaces

Rebecca Diamond, Harvard University and NBER
Michael J. Dickstein, New York University and NBER
Timothy McQuade, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Petra Persson, Stanford University and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch and Adjourn