SI 2025 Public Economics
Organized by Raj Chetty, Itzik Fadlon, Tatiana Homonoff, Benjamin B. Lockwood, Mathilde Muñoz, and Maria Polyakova
July 22-23, 2025
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, July 22
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:30 am

Paternalistic Social Assistance: Evidence and Implications from Cash vs. In-Kind Transfers

Anna Chorniy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Matthew J. Notowidigdo, University of Chicago and NBER
10:15 am

Penalties in the Safety Net: Labor Supply and Program Enrollment Effects of Work Requirement Enforcement

Katherine Richard, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Lea J. Bart, University of Michigan
11:00 am
Break
11:20 am

Health Impacts of Federal Pandemic Aid to State and Local Governments

Jeffrey Clemens, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Anwita Mahajan, University of California, San Diego
12:05 pm
Lunch
Joint session with Labor Studies in Ballroom A
1:10 pm

Creating High-Opportunity Neighborhoods: Evidence from the HOPE VI Program

Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
Rebecca Diamond, Harvard University and NBER
Brad Foster, U.S. Census Bureau
Lawrence F. Katz, Harvard University and NBER
Sonya Porter, U.S. Census Bureau
Matthew Staiger, Harvard University
Laura Tach, Cornell University
2:00 pm

The Racial Penalty in Job Ladder Transitions

Itzik Fadlon, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Briana Sullivan, U.S. Census Bureau
Vedant Vohra, University of California, San Diego
2:50 pm
Break
3:10 pm

The Big Economic Consequences of Small Financial Shocks: Evidence from Minor Car Crashes

Andrew C. Barr, Texas A&M University and NBER
Jonathan Eggleston, U.S. Census Bureau
Steven Mello, Dartmouth College and NBER
Alexander A. Smith, United States Military Academy at West Point
4:00 pm

Explaining the Historical Rise and Recent Decline in Social Security Disability Insurance Enrollment

Manasi Deshpande, University of Chicago and NBER
Maxwell Kellogg, University of Oslo
Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago and NBER
Kuan-Ju Tseng, University of Chicago
4:50 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 23
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am

Never-Realized Capital Gains

Lucy Msall, National Bureau of Economic Research
Ole-Andreas Naess, Norwegian School of Economics
9:15 am
Break
9:30 am

Behavioral Responses to Estate Taxation: Evidence from Taiwan

Linda A. Wu, University of British Columbia
Tzu-Ting Yang, Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica
10:15 am

Building Capacity in the Public Administration: Evidence from German Reunification

Nadja Dwenger, University of Hohenheim
Anna Gumpert, University of Tübingen
11:00 am
Break
11:20 am

Hours Mismatch and Annual Taxes (slides)

Andreas R. Kostøl, BI Norwegian Business School
Matthew Merkle, Arizona State University
Andreas Myhre, The Norwegian Welfare Administration
Mark R. Whitmeyer, Arizona State University
12:05 pm
Lunch and Adjourn