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 and NBER
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, VATT Institute for Economic Research and FIT
Ricardo Perez-Truglia, University of California, Los Angeles 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