SI 2019 Public Economics
Organized by Raj Chetty, Jeffrey Clemens, Amy Finkelstein, Nathaniel Hendren, Stefanie Stantcheva, and Owen M. Zidar
July 23, 2019
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, July 23
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Labor Studies in the Ballroom
8:30 am

Using the Opportunity Atlas to Create Moves to Opportunity: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment with Housing Voucher Recipients in Seattle

Peter Bergman, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
Stefanie DeLuca, Johns Hopkins University
John N. Friedman, Brown University and NBER
Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Maggie R. Jones, U.S. Census Bureau
Lawrence F. Katz, Harvard University and NBER
Christopher Palmer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Sonya Porter, U.S. Census Bureau
9:15 am

Reallocation Effects of the Minimum Wage: Evidence From Germany

Christian Dustmann, University College London
Attila S. Lindner, University College London
Uta Schönberg, University College London
Matthias Umkehrer, IAB Germany
Philipp vom Berge, IAB Germany
10:00 am
Break
Session on Labor Supply Responses to Policy
10:20 am

Intertemporal Labor Supply Substitution? Evidence from the Swiss Income Tax Holidays (slides)

Isabel Z. Martinez, ETH Zurich
Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Michael Siegenthaler, ETH Zürich
10:55 am

Labor Supply Responses and Adjustment Frictions: A Tax-Free Year in Iceland

Jósef Sigurdsson, Stockholm University
11:30 am

Adjustment Costs and Incentives to Work: Evidence from a Disability Insurance Program

Arezou Zaresani, The University of Sydney
12:00 noon
Lunch
Public Economics Workshop continues in the Longfellow Room
Session on Real Responses to Corporate Taxation
1:00 pm

Capital Gains Taxes and Real Corporate Investment

Terry Moon, University of British Columbia
1:30 pm

Higher Dividend Taxes, No Problem! Evidence from Taxing Entrepreneurs in France

Charles Boissel, HEC-Paris
Adrien Matray, Princeton University and NBER
2:00 pm
Break
2:15 pm

Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance

David S. Lee, Princeton University and NBER
Pauline Leung, Cornell University
Christopher J. O'Leary, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Zhuan Pei, Cornell University
Simon Quach, University of Southern California
2:55 pm

When Income Effects are Large: Labor Supply Responses and the Value of Welfare Transfers

Giulia Giupponi, Bocconi University
3:35 pm
Break
3:50 pm

How to Improve Tax Compliance? Evidence from Population-wide Experiments in Belgium

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, University of Oxford
Clement Imbert, University of Warwick
Maarten Luts, Federal Public Service (FPS) Finance
Johannes Spinnewijn, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Teodora Tsankova, University of Warwick
4:30 pm

Top Wealth in the United States: New Estimates and Implications for Taxing the Rich

Matthew Smith, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Owen M. Zidar, Princeton University and NBER
Eric Zwick, University of Chicago and NBER
5:10 pm
Adjourn