SI 2015 Public Econ. Taxation & Social Insurance
Organized by Amy Finkelstein, Raj Chetty, David Card, Caroline M. Hoxby, and Ilyana Kuziemko
July 21, 2015
Royal Sonesta Hotel

Tuesday, July 21

8:30 am

Disability Benefits, Consumption Insurance, and Household Labor Supply

David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Andreas R. Kostol, BI Norwegian Business School
Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago and NBER

9:20 am

The Effect of Social Security Benefits on Earnings: Novel Evidence from the Social Security Notch

Alexander M. Gelber, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Adam Isen, Johns Hopkins University
Jae Song, Social Security Administration

10:30 am

Who Wants Affordable Housing in their Backyard? An Equilibrium Analysis of Low Income Property Development

Rebecca Diamond, Harvard University and NBER
Timothy McQuade, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

11:20

Shaming Tax Delinquents: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in the United States

Ricardo Perez-Truglia, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Ugo Troiano, University of California, Riverside

1:00 pm

Optimal Taxation with Behavioral Agents

Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University
Xavier Gabaix, Harvard University and NBER

2:00 pm

Medicaid as an Investment in Children: What is the Long-Term Impact on Tax Receipts?

David W. Brown, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Amanda E. Kowalski, University of Michigan and NBER
Ithai Lurie, U.S. Department of the Treasury

2:45 pm

Firm Types and Heterogeneous Consumption-tax Incidence

Tuomas Kosonen, VATT Institute for Economic Research

3:45 pm

Optimal Income Taxation with Unemployment and Wage Responses: A Sufficient Statistics Approach

Kory Kroft, University of Toronto and NBER
Kavan J.. Kucko, Boston University
Etienne Lehmann, CRED(TEPP) Universite Pantheon Assas Paris II
Johannes F. Schmieder, Boston University and NBER

4:25 pm

Private Information and Unemployment Insurance

Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

4:25 pm

The Importance of UI as an Automatic Stabilizer

Marco Di Maggio, Imperial College Business School
Amir Kermani, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

5:05 pm