Tuesday, July 24

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

Morning joint with Labor Studies in Ballroom B

8:30 am

Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective (slides)

Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Maggie R. Jones, U.S. Census Bureau
Sonya Porter, U.S. Census Bureau

9:20 am

Does Eviction Cause Poverty? Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Cook County, IL

Daniel I. Tannenbaum, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
John Eric Humphries, Yale University and NBER
Winnie L. van Dijk, Yale University and NBER
Nicholas S. Mader, NORC at the University of Chicago

10:10 am

Break

10:30 am

Pre-event Trends in the Panel Event-study Design

Simon Freyaldenhoven, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Christian Hansen, University of Chicago
Jesse M. Shapiro, Harvard University and NBER

11:20 am

Unemployment Insurance, Strategic Unemployment, and Firm-Worker Collusion

Bernadus Doornik, Banco Central do Brasil
David Schoenherr, Princeton University
Janis Skrastins, Washington University in St Louis

12:10 pm

Lunch

12:50 pm

Take-up and Targeting: Experimental Evidence from SNAP

Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Matthew J. Notowidigdo, University of Chicago and NBER

1:40 pm

Can Audits Backfire? Evidence from Public Procurement in Chile

Maria Paula Gerardino, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Stephan Litschig, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
Dina Pomeranz, University of Zurich

2:30 pm

Break

2:45 pm

When Is It Hard to Make Ends Meet?

Jialan Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Brian Baugh, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

3:35 pm

Property Taxation, Housing, and Local Labor Markets: Evidence from German Municipalities

Max Löffler, University of Cologne
Sebastian Siegloch, University of Mannheim

4:25 pm

Market Power and Income Taxation

Louis Kaplow, Harvard University and NBER

5:15 pm

Adjourn