Public Economics Program Meeting

Raj Chetty and Danny Yagan, Organizers

October 26-27, 2017

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

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, October 26
9:00 am
Continental Breakfast
9:30 am
Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 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 and NBER
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, University of North Carolina

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