SI 2018 Public Economics
Organized by Amy Finkelstein, Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, and Owen M. Zidar
July 24, 2018
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
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, Seoul National University
Janis Skrastins, University of Utah
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 (GRIPS)
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