Public Economics Program Meeting

Hunt Allcott and Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Organizers

October 28-29, 2021

on Zoom

Thursday, October 28
11:00 am	Kristoffer B. Hvidberg, University of Copenhagen Claus Kreiner, University of Copenhagen and CEBI Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER Social Position and Fairness Views
11:40 am	Antoine Ferey, Sciences Po Benjamin Lockwood, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Dmitry Taubinsky, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Sufficient Statistics for Nonlinear Tax Systems with Preference Heterogeneity
12:20 pm	Break
12:40 pm	Santosh Anagol, University of Pennsylvania Fernando V. Ferreira, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Jonah M. Rexer, Princeton University Estimating the Economic Value of Zoning Reform
1:20 pm	Speed meetings
2:10 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Naoki Aizawa, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER Corina Mommaerts, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER Stephanie L. Rennane, RAND Corporation Firm Investment, Labor Supply, and the Design of Social Insurance: Evidence from Accommodations for Workplace Disability
3:10 pm	Colleen Carey, Cornell University and NBER Nolan H. Miller, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NBER David Molitor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NBER Why Does Disability Increase During Recessions? Evidence from Medicare
3:50 pm	Break
4:10 pm	Ellora Derenoncourt, Princeton University and NBER Chi Hyun Kim, University of Bonn Moritz Kuhn, University of Mannheim Moritz Schularick, Kiel Institute for the World Economy & Sciences Po The Racial Wealth Gap, 1860-2020 (slides)
4:50 pm	Amir Kermani, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Francis Wong, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Racial Disparities in Housing Returns
5:30 pm	Adjourn
Friday, October 29
	Joint sessions with the Insurance Group
11:00 am	Mark Shepard, Harvard University and NBER Myles Wagner, Ohio State University Reducing Ordeals through Automatic Enrollment: Evidence from a Health Insurance Exchange
11:40 am	Paul J. Eliason, Brigham Young University and NBER Riley J. League, National Bureau of Economic Research Jetson Leder-Luis, Boston University and NBER Ryan C. McDevitt, Duke University and NBER James W. Roberts, Duke University and NBER Ambulance Taxis
12:20 pm	Break
12:40 pm	Lunch Talk
1:30 pm	Group discussions
2:10 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Zarek C. Brot-Goldberg, University of Chicago and NBER Samantha Burn, Harvard University Timothy Layton, Harvard University and NBER Boris Vabson, Harvard University Rationing Medicine Through Bureaucracy: Authorization Restrictions in Medicare
3:10 pm	Abe Dunn, Bureau of Economic Analysis Joshua D. Gottlieb, University of Chicago and NBER Adam Shapiro, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Daniel J. Sonnenstuhl, University of Chicago Pietro Tebaldi, Columbia University and NBER A Denial a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
3:50 pm	Break
4:10 pm	Marta Lachowska, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Isaac Sorkin, Stanford University and NBER Stephen A. Woodbury, Michigan State University Firms and Unemployment Insurance Take-Up
4:50 pm	Daniel Herbst, University of Arizona Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and the Missing Markets for Financing Human Capital (slides)
5:30 pm	Adjourn