Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar: Economic Behavior and Inequality
Organized by Hilary W. Hoynes and Claus Thustrup Kreiner
June 6-8, 2022
Monday, June 6
SESSION 1
11:00 am

Multi-Generational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation’s Health

Chloe N. East, University of Colorado Denver and NBER
Sarah Miller, University of Michigan and NBER
Marianne E. Page, University of California, Davis and NBER
Laura Wherry, New York University and NBER

Discussant:
Mette Gørtz, University of Copenhagen
12:15 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
Keynote: Children and the US Social Safety Net: Balancing Disincentives for Adults and Benefits for Children
Hilary Hoynes, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
2:45 pm
Coffee Break
SESSION 2
3:00 pm

Removing Barriers to Program Enrollment: Experimental Evidence from SNAP

Tatiana Homonoff, New York University and NBER
Eric Giannella, Code for America
Gwen Rino, Code for America
Jason Somerville, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Discussant:
Daphne Skandalis, University of Copenhagen
4:15 pm

Health, Education and Crime of Children in Out-of-Home Care

Petra G. Cavalca, University of Copenhagen
Mette Ejrnaes, University of Copenhagen
Mette Gørtz, University of Copenhagen

Discussant:
Petter Lundborg, Lund University
5:30 pm
Adjourn
7:00 pm
Dinner at Restaurant Orangeriet, King’s Garden
Tuesday, June 7
SESSION 3
9:00 am

Communicating Social Security Reform

Søren Leth-Petersen, University of Copenhagen
Andrew Caplin, New York University and NBER
Eungik Lee, New York University
Johan Saeverud, University of Copenhagen

Discussant:
James M. Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:15 am

Long-Run Intergenerational Effects of Social Security

Daniel K. Fetter, Dartmouth College and NBER
Lee Lockwood, University of Virginia and NBER
Paul Mohnen, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Discussant:
Arthur Seibold, University of Mannheim
11:30 am
Coffee Break
SESSION 4
11:45 am

Parenthood in Poverty

Sarah Eichmeyer, Bocconi University
Christina A. Kent, Stanford University

Discussant:
Anne Ardila Brenøe, University of Zurich
1:00 pm
Lunch
SESSION 5
2:00 pm

Shallow Meritocracy

Peter Andre, Goethe University Frankfurt

Discussant:
Jason Somerville, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
3:15 pm
Break and walk to big seminar room
3:30 pm
Keynote: Inequality, Redistribution and the Labour Market: Reflections from the Deaton Review
Richard Blundell, University College London, IFS, CEPR
4:45 pm
Reception
5:15 pm
Walk to Nyhavn (taxi if needed)
6:00 pm
Boat trip in the canals of Copenhagen (pick-up in Nyhavn)
7:15 pm
Dinner at Restaurant SALT at Admiral Hotel
Wednesday, June 8
SESSION 6
9:00 am

Sufficient Statistics for Nonlinear Tax Systems with General Across-Income Heterogeneity

Antoine Ferey, Sciences Po
Benjamin Lockwood, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Dmitry Taubinsky, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Discussant:
Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
10:15 am

The Heterogeneous Welfare Impacts of Tax Enforcement

William Boning, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Ben Sprung-Keyser, Wharton School
Ellen M. Stuart, The University of Sydney

Discussant:
Jakob Egholt Søgaard, University of Copenhagen and CEBI
11:30 am
Coffee Break
SESSION 7
11:45 am

Tax Refund Uncertainty: Evidence and Welfare Implications

Sydnee Caldwell, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Scott T. Nelson, University of Chicago
Daniel C. Waldinger, New York University and NBER

Discussant:
Niels Johannesen, University of Oxford
1:00 pm
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