Public Economics Program Meeting

Raj Chetty and Damon Jones, Organizers

October 29-30, 2020

Thursday, October 29
11:30 am	Pascal Michaillat, University of California, Santa Cruz and NBER Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Beveridgean Unemployment Gap
12:05 pm	Michael Dinerstein, University of Chicago and NBER Christopher Neilson, Yale University and NBER Sebastian Otero, Columbia University The Equilibrium Effects of Public Provision in Education Markets: Evidence from a Public School Expansion Policy
12:40 pm	Lunch Break
1:30 pm	Lucie Gadenne, Queen Mary, University of London Sam Norris, University of British Columbia Sandip Sukhtankar, University of Virginia and NBER Monica Singhal, University of California, Davis and NBER In-Kind Transfers as Insurance
2:05 pm	Manasi Deshpande, University of Chicago and NBER Lee Lockwood, University of Virginia and NBER Beyond Health: Non-Health Risk and the Value of Disability Insurance
2:40 pm	Break
3:00 pm	David Coyne, Department of the Treasury Itzik Fadlon, University of California, San Diego and NBER Tommaso Porzio, Columbia University and NBER Who Needs Liquidity, When, and Where? Evidence from Penalized Withdrawals
3:35 pm	Benjamin R. Handel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Jonathan T. Kolstad, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Thomas Minten, London School of Economics Johannes Spinnewijn, London School of Economics The Social Determinants of Choice Quality: Evidence from Health Insurance in the Netherlands
4:05 pm	Adjourn
Friday, October 30
11:30 am	Sylvain Catherine, University of Pennsylvania Max Miller, Harvard University Natasha Sarin, Yale University Social Security and Trends in Inequality (slides)
12:05 pm	Max Risch, Carnegie Mellon University Does Taxing Business Owners Affect Employees? Evidence from a Change in the Top Marginal Tax Rate
12:40 pm	Lunch Break
	Session on Property Taxation
1:30 pm	Anne Brockmeyer, The World Bank Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Stanford University and NBER Alejandro Estefan Dr, University of Notre Dame Taxing Property in Developing Countries: Theory and Evidence from Mexico
1:55 pm	Francis Wong, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Mad as Hell: Property Taxes and Financial Distress
2:20 pm	Brad C. Nathan, University of Texas at Dallas Ricardo Perez-Truglia, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Alejandro Zentner, University of Texas at Dallas My Taxes are Too Darn High: Tax Protests as Revealed Preferences for Redistribution
2:45 pm	Break
3:05 pm	Jarkko Harju, Tampere University and FIT Simon Jäger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Benjamin Schoefer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Worker Voice and Shared Governance: Evidence from a Reform in Finland
3:40 pm	Adjourn