SI 2017 Public Economics
Organized by Amy Finkelstein and Raj Chetty
July 25, 2017
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, July 25
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Labor Studies in Ballroom B
8:30 am

How Are SNAP Benefits Spent? Evidence from a Retail Panel

Justine S. Hastings, University of Washington
Jesse M. Shapiro, Harvard University and NBER
9:20 am

Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century

Matthew Smith, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Danny Yagan, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Owen M. Zidar, Princeton University and NBER
Eric Zwick, University of Chicago and NBER
10:10 am
Break
10:30 am

Firm Behavior and Payroll Taxes: Evidence from a Young Workers Tax Cut in Sweden

Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
David G. Seim, Stockholm University
Benjamin Schoefer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
11:20 am

What Goes Up May Not Come Down: Asymmetric Incidence of Value-Added Taxes.

Youssef Benzarti, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
Dorian Carloni, Congressional Budget Office
Jarkko Harju, Tampere University and FIT
Tuomas Kosonen, VATT Institute for Economic Research
12:10 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

Shopping for Lower Sales Tax Rates

Lorenz Kueng, Swiss Finance Institute
Scott R. Baker, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
1:35 pm

Can the Private Sector Provide Better Police Services?

Cheng Cheng, Amazon, Inc.
Wei Long, Tulane University
2:10 pm
Break
2:30 pm

The Employment Effects of Countercyclical Infrastructure Investments

Lukas Buchheim, TU Dortmund
Martin Watzinger, University of Muenster
3:05 pm

Unemployment Insurance Taxes and Labor Demand: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Administrative Data

Andrew C. Johnston
3:40 pm

Adjust Me if I Can't: The Effect of Firm Incentives on Labor Supply Responses to Taxes

Alisa Tazhitdinova, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
4:15 pm
Adjourn
5:00 pm
Methods Lecture, Jon Schwabish, Urban Institute
Improving Data Presentation