39th Annual NBER Tax Policy and the Economy Conference
Organized by Robert A. Moffitt
Supported by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
September 26, 2024
National Press Club, 529 14th Street, N.W., Washington DC, Zoom

Thursday, September 26

8:00 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 am

Welcome / Opening Remarks

8:35 am

Too Much of a Good Thing? How Narrow Targeting and Policy Interactions Influence Responses to California’s EITC

David Neumark, University of California, Irvine and NBER
Peter Li, University of California, Irvine

9:15 am

The Distributional Implications of Itemized Medical Deductions

Gopi Shah Goda, The Brookings Institution and NBER
Ithai Lurie, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Priyanka S. Parikh, Stanford University
Chelsea Swete, U.S. Department of the Treasury

9:55 am

Break

10:15 am

The Growth Dividend and Excess Interest

Danny Yagan, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

10:55 am

Estimating the Economic and Budgetary Effects of Research Investments

Theresa Gullo, Arbroath Associates
Benjamin Page, Brookings-Urban Tax Policy Center
David Weiner, Brookings-Urban Tax Policy Center
Heidi L. Williams, Dartmouth College and NBER

11:35 am

Break

11:55 am

Turning on the Light: A New Assessment of Measurement Error in International Tax Data

Rosanne Altshuler, Rutgers University
Lysle Boller, University of Pennsylvania
Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Stanford University and NBER

12:35 pm

Lunch

12:40 pm

Lunch Speaker: Vitor Gaspar, International Monetary Fund
(slides)

1:50 pm

Adjourn