Public Economics Program Meeting

Hunt Allcott and Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Organizers

October 28-29, 2021

on Zoom

Thursday, October 28
11:00 am	Social Position and Fairness Views
11:40 am	Sufficient Statistics for Nonlinear Tax Systems with Preference Heterogeneity
12:20 pm	Break
12:40 pm	Estimating the Economic Value of Zoning Reform
1:20 pm	Speed meetings
2:10 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Firm Investment, Labor Supply, and the Design of Social Insurance: Evidence from Accommodations for Workplace Disability
3:10 pm	Why Does Disability Increase During Recessions? Evidence from Medicare
3:50 pm	Break
4:10 pm	The Racial Wealth Gap, 1860-2020 (slides)
4:50 pm	Racial Disparities in Housing Returns
5:30 pm	Adjourn
Friday, October 29
	Joint sessions with the Insurance Group
11:00 am	Reducing Ordeals through Automatic Enrollment: Evidence from a Health Insurance Exchange
11:40 am	Ambulance Taxis
12:20 pm	Break
12:40 pm	Lunch Talk
1:30 pm	Group discussions
2:10 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Rationing Medicine Through Bureaucracy: Authorization Restrictions in Medicare
3:10 pm	A Denial a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
3:50 pm	Break
4:10 pm	Firms and Unemployment Insurance Take-Up
4:50 pm	Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and the Missing Markets for Financing Human Capital (slides)
5:30 pm	Adjourn