Tax Policy and the Economy
Organized by Robert A. Moffitt
Supported by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
September 26, 2019
National Press Club, 529 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC

Thursday, September 26

8:00 am

Registration and Breakfast

8:30 am

Welcome / Opening Remarks

8:35 am

The Employer Penalty, Voluntary Compliance, and the Size Distribution of Firms: Evidence from a Survey of Small Businesses (slides)

Casey B. Mulligan, University of Chicago and NBER

9:15 am

Tax Prices and Charitable Giving: Projected Changes in Donations Under the 2017 TCJA

Jonathan Meer, Texas A&M University and NBER
Benjamin Priday, Texas A&M University

9:55 am

Break

10:15 am

Taxes, Incorporation, and Productivity

Robert J. Barro, Harvard University and NBER
Brian Wheaton, University of California, Los Angeles

10:55 am

Break

11:15 am

Building Emergency Savings Through Employer-Sponsored Rainy-Day Savings Accounts

John Beshears, Harvard University and NBER
James J. Choi, Yale University and NBER
Mark Iwry, The Brookings Institution
David C. John, AARP Public Policy Institute
David Laibson, Harvard University and NBER
Brigitte C. Madrian, Brigham Young University and NBER

11:55 am

One Medicare for All? The Economics of a Uniform Health Insurance Program

Katherine Baicker, University of Chicago and NBER
Mark Shepard, Harvard University and NBER
Jonathan S. Skinner, Dartmouth College and NBER

12:35 pm

Lunch

Lunch Speaker – Kevin Hassett, Former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers

1:50 pm

Adjourn