Thursday, September 22

8:00 am

Registration and Breakfast

8:30 am

Welcome / Opening Remarks

8:35 am

Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit for Childless Adults: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Jonathan Meer, Texas A&M University and NBER
Joshua Witter, Amazon.com LLC

9:15 am

How Much in Social Security Benefits Are Americans Leaving on the Table (slides)

David Altig, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Boston University and NBER
Victor Yifan Ye, Opendoor Technologies

9:55 am

Break

10:15 am

Tax Avoidance Networks and the Push for a 'Historic' Global Tax Reform

Katarzyna A. Bilicka, Utah State University and NBER
Michael P. Devereux, University of Oxford
Irem Guceri, University of Oxford

10:55 am

Break

11:15 am

The Distributional Burden of Fuel Taxes and Transportation User Fees

Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
Caitlin S. Gorback, University of Texas at Austin
James M. Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

11:55 am

Experience Rating as an Automatic Stabilizer

Mark Duggan, Stanford University and NBER
Audrey Guo, Santa Clara University
Andrew Johnston, University of Texas at Austin and NBER

12:35 pm

Lunch

Lunch Speaker – Cecilia Rouse, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers

1:50 pm

Adjourn