Behavioral Public Economics Bootcamp

Hunt Allcott, B. Douglas Bernheim, and Dmitry Taubinsky, Organizers

October 12-14, 2023

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Riverfront Room, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, October 12
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Welcome and Overview (Bernheim, Taubinsky)
9:30 am
Participant Introductions
10:00 am
Behavioral Welfare Analysis (Bernheim)
11:00 am
Break
11:30 am
Tax Misperceptions (Taubinsky)
Video
12:30 pm
Lunch - Charles A
1:30 pm
Non-Standard Policy Instruments (Bernheim)
2:30 pm
Break
3:00 pm
Optimal Sin Taxes I (Taubinsky)
Video
4:00 pm
Break
4:30 pm
Optimal Sin Taxes II (Allcott)
5:30 pm
Break
6:00 pm
Reception - Somerset Room
6:30 pm
Dinner: Talk by Stefanie Deluca on Ethnography and Behavioral Economics
Video
Friday, October 13
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Behavioral Economics and Media (Allcott)
10:00 am
Break
10:30 am
Behavioral Health Insurance (Benjamin Handel)
Video
11:45 am
Lunch - Charles A
1:00 pm
Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net (Manasi Deshpande)
2:15 pm
Break
2:40 pm
Student-Faculty Meetings (Allcott, Bernheim, Taubinsky)
6:00 pm
Reception - Somerset Room
6:30 pm
Dinner
Saturday, October 14
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Tax Compliance (Ricardo Perez-Truglia)
Video
10:15 am
Break
10:45 am
Job Displacement Insurance and Consumption Smoothing (Joana Naritomi)
Video

Slides
12:00 pm
Lunch, research idea discussions, networking
Charles A
2:00 pm
Adjourn