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, 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, 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