Tuesday, July 14
Tax

Moderator: Jeffrey Clemens, University of California at San Diego and NBER
11:00 am

The Optimal Taxation of Lotteries: Who P(l)ays and Who Wins? (slides)

Hunt Allcott, Stanford University and NBER
Benjamin Lockwood, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Dmitry Taubinsky, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
11:35 am

Wealth Taxation and Household Saving: Evidence from Assessment Discontinuities in Norway

Marius A. K. Ring, University of Texas at Austin
12:10 pm
Break
Policies Targeted at Children

Moderator: Nathan Hendren, Harvard University and NBER
1:00 pm

Bailing out the Kids: New Evidence on Informal Insurance from one Billion Bank Transfers

Asger L. Andersen, University of Copenhagen
Niels Johannesen, University of Oxford
Adam Sheridan, University of Copenhagen
1:35 pm

Short- and Long-Run Effects of a Sizable Child Subsidy: Evidence from Russia (slides)

Evgeny Yakovlev, New Economic School
Ilya Sorvachev, New Economic School
2:10 pm
Break
Policy Implementation and Evaluation

Moderator: Dmitry Taubinsky, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
2:30 pm

Understanding Economic Policies: What Do People Know and Learn?

Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER
3:05 pm

RCTs to Scale: Comprehensive Evidence from Two Nudge Units

Stefano DellaVigna, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Elizabeth Linos, Harvard University
3:40 pm
Break
4:10 pm
Panel: Public Economists' Perspectives on Policy Responses to COVID-19
Jason Furman, Harvard University
John Friedman, Brown University and NBER
Nathaniel Hendren, Harvard University and NBER
Hilary Hoynes, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Ivan Werning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
5:25 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 15
Public Economics in Historical Contexts

Moderator: Danny Yagan, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
11:00 am

Do Youth Employment Programs Work? Evidence from the New Deal

Adriana Lleras-Muney, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Anna Aizer, Brown University and NBER
Shari Eli, University of Toronto and NBER
Keyoung Lee, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
11:35 am

Demand Shocks, Procurement Policies, and the Nature of Medical Innovation: Evidence from Wartime Prosthetic Device Patents

Jeffrey Clemens, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Parker Rogers, Indiana University
12:10 pm
Break
Measurement Related to Mobility and Inequality

Moderator: Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
1:00 pm

Intergenerational Mobility in India: Estimates from New Methods and Administrative Data

Sam Asher, Imperial College London
Paul Novosad, Dartmouth College
Charlie Rafkin, University of California, Berkeley
1:35 pm

Wealth, Race, and Consumption Smoothing of Typical Income Shocks

Peter Ganong, University of Chicago and NBER
Damon Jones, University of Chicago and NBER
Pascal J. Noel, University of Chicago and NBER
2:10 pm
Break
Evaluating the Optimality of Policy Instruments

Moderator: Henrik Kleven, Princeton University and NBER
2:30 pm

Mandatory Advance Notice of Layoff: Evidence and Efficiency Considerations

Arash Nekoei, Stockholm University
Peter Fredriksson, Uppsala University
David G. Seim, Stockholm University
Jonas Cederlöf, University of Edinburgh
3:05 pm

Place-Based Redistribution

Cecile Gaubert, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Patrick M. Kline, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Danny Yagan, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
3:40 pm
Adjourn
FORMAT: Presenters will have 35 minutes to present and answer questions. The moderator will invite presenters' co-authors to address audience questions in the Zoom chat while the presenter is presenting. The moderator may also voice questions from the Zoom chat directly to the presenter during the presentation. Presenters are invited to leave up to five minutes at the end for audience questions that the moderator selects from the Zoom chat.