Public Economics Program Meeting
Amy Finkelstein, Raj Chetty, and Jonathan Gruber, Organizers
November 3-4, 2016
1050 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA
| Thursday, November 3 | ||
| 9:30 am |
Florian Scheuer, University of Zurich Iván Werning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Mirrlees meets Diamond-Mirrlees: Simplifying Nonlinear Income Taxation |
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| 10:20 am |
Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER A Simpler Theory of Optimal Capital Taxation |
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| 11:30 am |
Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER David Grusky, Stanford University Maximilian Hell, Stanford University Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Robert Manduca, Harvard University Jimmy Narang, University of California at Berkeley The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility in the U.S. |
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| 1:20 pm |
Dmitry Taubinsky, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Alex Rees-Jones, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Attention Variation and Welfare: Theory and Evidence from a Tax Salience Experiment |
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| 2:10 pm |
John Beshears, Harvard University and NBER James J. Choi, Yale University and NBER Christopher D. Clayton, Yale University and NBER Christopher Harris, Cambridge University David Laibson, Harvard University and NBER Brigitte C. Madrian, Brigham Young University and NBER Optimal Illiquidity |
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| 3:20 pm |
Matthew C. Weinzierl, Harvard University and NBER Popular Acceptance of Inequality due to Brute Luck and Support for Classical Benefit-Based Taxation |
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| 4:10 pm |
Brian G. Knight, Brown University and NBER Nathan M. Schiff, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics The Out of State Tuition Distortion |
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| Friday, November 4 | ||
| 8:30 am |
Vilsa Curto, Harvard University Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Jonathan D. Levin, Stanford University and NBER Jay Bhattacharya, Stanford University and NBER Health Care Spending and Utilization in Public and Private Medicare |
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| 11:00 am |
Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Measuring Ex-Ante Welfare in Insurance Markets |
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