Public Economics Program Meeting

Raj Chetty and Danny Yagan, Organizers

October 26-27, 2017

SIEPR-Gunn Building, 366 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA 94305

Thursday, October 26
9:00 am	Continental Breakfast
9:30 am	Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Nathaniel Hendren, Harvard University and NBER Mark Shepard, Harvard University and NBER Subsidizing Health Insurance for Low-Income Adults: Evidence from Massachusetts
10:20 am	Break
10:40 am	Mark Duggan, Stanford University and NBER Atul Gupta, University of Pennsylvania Emilie Jackson, Michigan State University The Impact of the Affordable Care Act: Evidence from California's Hospital Sector
11:30 am	Lunch
12:40 pm	Alexander M. Gelber, University of California, San Diego and NBER Timothy J. Moore, Purdue University and NBER Alexander Strand, Social Security Administration Disability Insurance Income Saves Lives
1:30 pm	Ethan Lieber, University of Notre Dame and NBER Lee Lockwood, University of Virginia and NBER Targeting with In-kind Transfers: Evidence from Medicaid Home Care
2:20 pm	Break
2:50 pm	Philip Armour, RAND Corporation Michael Lovenheim, Cornell University and NBER The Effect of Social Security Information on the Labor Supply of Older Americans
3:40 pm	Peter Ganong, University of Chicago and NBER Pascal Noel, University of Chicago and NBER Consumer Spending During Unemployment: Positive and Normative Implications
4:30 pm	Adjourn
4:45 pm	Shuttle leaves SIEPR for Indo Restaurant
5:30 pm	Dinner Indo Restaurant 3295 El Camino Real Palo Alto, CA 94305
7:30 pm	Shuttle leaves Indo Restaurant for Sheraton Palo Alto
Friday, October 27
8:15 am	Continental Breakfast
8:40 am	Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER Timothy McQuade, University of California, Berkeley Franklin Qian, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School The Effects of Rent Control Expansion on Tenants, Landlords, and Inequality: Evidence from San Francisco
9:30 am	Break
9:50 am	Marcelo L. Bérgolo, IECON-UDELAR Rodrigo Ceni, IECON-UDELAR Guillermo Cruces, Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Soci Matias Giaccobasso, University of California, Los Angeles Ricardo Perez-Truglia, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Tax Audits as Scarecrows: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
10:40 am	Katrine Jakobsen, University of Copenhagen Kristian Jakobsen, University of Copenhagen Henrik Kleven, Princeton University and NBER Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Wealth Taxation and Wealth Accumulation: Theory and Evidence from Denmark
11:30 am	Lunch and Adjourn