Public Economics Program Meeting
Organized by Ellora Derenoncourt, Neale Mahoney, and Eric Zwick
April 21-22, 2022
Cambridge, MA and Zoom.us
Thursday, April 21
8:15 am
Continental Breakfast
Empirical Research Using Tax Data Session
(the live-stream will start with the 9:15 am presentation)
8:45 am

How Do Small Firms Accommodate Minimum Wage Increases? Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Tax Returns

Nirupama L. Rao, University of Michigan
Max Risch, Carnegie Mellon University
9:15 am

Air Pollution and Economic Opportunity in the United States

Jonathan M. Colmer, University of Virginia
John L. Voorheis, U.S. Census Bureau
Brennan Williams, University of Virginia
9:45 am
Break
10:00 am

The Effect of Financial Resources on Homeownership, Marriage, and Fertility: Evidence from State Lotteries

George Bulman, University of California, Santa Cruz and NBER
Sarena Goodman, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Adam Isen, Johns Hopkins University
10:30 am

Inducing Labor: the Impact of Health Insurance on Post-Natal Labor Supply

Ithai Lurie, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Elena Patel, The Brookings Institution
Shanthi Ramnath, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
11:00 am
Break
11:15 am

Financial Inclusion Across the United States

Motohiro Yogo, Princeton University and NBER
Andrew Whitten, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Natalie Cox, Princeton University
11:45 am

Retirement Consumption and Pension Design

Jonas Kolsrud, Uppsala University
Camille Landais, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Johannes Spinnewijn, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Daniel Reck, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
12:15 pm
Lunch- Somerset Room
Public Economics Program Meeting begins
1:00 pm

Capital Investment and Labor Demand

Kevin A. Roberts, Stanford University
E. Mark Curtis, Wake Forest University
Eric C. Ohrn, Grinnell College
Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Stanford University and NBER
Daniel G. Garrett, University of Pennsylvania
1:40 pm

Quota vs. Quality? Long-Term Gains from an Unusual Gender Quota

Ursina M. Schaede, Tufts University
Ville Mankki, University of Turku
2:20 pm
Break
2:40 pm

Where Do My Tax Dollars Go? Tax Morale Effects of Perceived Government Spending

Matias Giaccobasso, VATT Institute for Economic Research and FIT
Brad C. Nathan, Rutgers University
Ricardo Perez-Truglia, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Alejandro Zentner, University of Texas at Dallas
3:20 pm

What Drives Tax Policy? Political, Institutional and Economic Determinants of State Tax Policy in the Past 70 Years

Sarah Robinson, Claremont McKenna College
Alisa Tazhitdinova, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
4:00 pm
Break
4:20 pm

Real-Time Inequality

Thomas Blanchet, University of California, Berkeley
Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
5:30 pm
Reception and Group Dinner - Parkview Room
Friday, April 22
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
(the live-stream will start with the 10:00 am presentation)
9:20 am

The Evolution of Platform Gig Work, 2012-2020

Andrew Garin, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Emilie Jackson, Michigan State University
Dmitri K. Koustas, University of Chicago
Alicia Miller, Internal Revenue Service
10:00 am

Welfare Analysis of Changing Notches: Evidence from Bolsa Familia

Katy Bergstom, Tulane University
William Dodds, Tulane University
Juan Rios, Uber
10:40 am
Break
11:00 am

Silenced: Consequences of the Nuisance Property Ordinances

Aria Golestani, Cornell University
11:40 am

Where is Standard of Living the Highest? Local Prices and the Geography of Consumption

Rebecca Diamond, Harvard University and NBER
Enrico Moretti, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
12:20 pm
Adjourn