Tax Policy and the Economy
Organized by Robert A. Moffitt
September 14, 2017
National Press Club, Washington DC

Thursday, September 14

8:00 am

Registration and Breakfast

8:30 am

Introductory Remarks by Robert Moffitt

8:35 am

Taxing Humans: Normative Implications of Biased Responses to Taxes

Alex Rees-Jones, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Dmitry Taubinsky, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

9:45 am

Break

10:00 am

Means-Testing Federal Health Entitlement Benefits

Andrew Samwick, Dartmouth College and NBER

10:35 am

Implications of Medicaid Financing Reform for State Government Budgets (slides)

Jeffrey Clemens, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Benedic N. Ippolito, American Enterprise Institute

11:10 am

Break

11:25 am

Disability, Taxes, Transfers and the Economic Well-Being of Women

Bruce D. Meyer, University of Chicago and NBER
Wallace K.C. Mok, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

12:00 n

Online Postsecondary Education and the Higher Education Tax Benefits: An Analysis with Implications for Tax Administration

Caroline M. Hoxby, Stanford University and NBER

12:35 pm

Closing Comments

12:45 pm

Lunch
Speaker: Katharine Abraham, University of Maryland and NBER
Report of the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking

2:00 pm

Adjourn