Public Economics Program Meeting

Amy Finkelstein and Henrik Kleven, Organizers

October 25-26, 2018

NBER, 2nd Floor Conference Room, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA

Thursday, October 25
10:00 am	Breakfast
10:30 am	Thomas R. Tørsløv, University of Copenhagen Ludvig S. Wier, University of Copenhagen Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley and NBER The Missing Profits of Nations
11:10 am	Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Stanford University and NBER Unintended Consequences of Eliminating Tax Havens
11:50 am	Break
12:20 pm	Henrik Kleven, Princeton University and NBER Taxation and Labor Force Participation: The EITC Reconsidered
1:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm	Peter Ganong, University of Chicago and NBER Pascal J. Noel, University of Chicago and NBER Liquidity vs. Wealth in Household Debt Obligations: Evidence from Housing Policy in the Great Recession
2:40 pm	Giulia Giupponi, Bocconi University Camille Landais, London School of Economics Subsidizing Labor Hoarding in Recessions: Employment & Welfare Effects of Short-Time Work
3:20 pm	Break
3:50 pm	Susan Athey, Stanford University and NBER Zakary Campbell, Brown University Eric Chyn, University of Texas at Austin and NBER Justine S. Hastings, University of Washington Preston S. White, Rhode Island Innovation Policy Lab The Social Value of Targeting Interventions: Evidence from Reemployment Services
4:30 pm	Qiping Xu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Eric Zwick, University of Chicago and NBER Kinky Tax Policy and Abnormal Investment Behavior
5:10 pm	Adjourn
6:15 pm	Dinner Royal Sonesta Hotel 40 Edwin Land Boulevard Cambridge, MA
Friday, October 26
8:00 am	Breakfast
8:30 am	Justine S. Hastings, University of Washington Ryan E. Kessler, Brown University Jesse M. Shapiro, Harvard University and NBER The Effect of SNAP on the Composition of Purchased Foods: Evidence and Implications
9:10 am	Manasi Deshpande, University of Chicago and NBER Tal Gross, Boston University and NBER Yalun Su, University of Chicago Disability and Distress: The Effect of Disability Programs on Financial Outcomes
9:50 am	Break
10:20 am	Itzik Fadlon, University of California, San Diego and NBER Shanthi P. Ramnath, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Patricia Tong, RAND Corporation Household Responses to Transfers and Liquidity: Evidence from Social Security’s Survivors Benefits
11:00 am	Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER John N. Friedman, Brown University and NBER Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Maggie R. Jones, U.S. Census Bureau Sonya Porter, U.S. Census Bureau The Opportunity Atlas: Mapping the Childhood Roots of Social Mobility
11:40 am	Lunch and Adjourn