Thursday, September 18

8:15 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:40 am

Welcome / Opening Remarks

8:45 am

Taxing Identity

Joel Slemrod, University of Michigan and NBER

9:20 am

Firm Investment And The User Cost of Capital: New U.S. Corporate Tax Reform Evidence

Jonathan S. Hartley, Stanford University
Kevin Hassett, Hoover Institution
Joshua Rauh, Stanford University and NBER

9:55 am

How Place and Need Intersect: How Lack of Enrollment Offices Deters Nutrition Assistance Take-Up

Marianne Bitler, University of California, Davis and NBER
Jason B. Cook, University of Utah
Sonya Porter, U.S. Census Bureau
Laura Tiehen, U.S. Department of Agriculture

10:30 am

Break

10:50 am

How Americans Think About Health Care and Insurance

Beatrice Ferrario, Harvard University
Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER

11:25 am

United States' Long-Term Fiscal Gap

Alan J. Auerbach, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
William Gale, Brookings Institution

12:00 pm

Potential Impact of Automatic Stabilizers on Debt Dynamics

Karen Dynan, Harvard University and NBER
Douglas W. Elmendorf, Harvard University and NBER

12:35 pm

Video to celebrate TPE's 40th anniversary

12:50 pm

Lunch