Public Economics Program Meeting

Marika Cabral and Jacob Goldin, Organizers

October 24-25, 2024

Riverfront Room, Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, October 24
11:30am
Lunch, Longfellow Room, Royal Sonesta Hotel
12:45pm

Insurance versus Moral Hazard in Income-Contingent Student Loan Repayment
1:20pm

Student Loan Forgiveness
1:55pm
Break
2:15pm

How Much Do Unrealized Gains and Borrowing Reduce the Rich’s Income Taxes? (slides)
2:45pm

Medicaid-ing Coverage Volatility: Evidence from the 2019 Virginia Medicaid Expansion (slides)
3:15pm

Optimal Policy Reforms
3:45pm
Break
4:05pm

How Do Consumers Finance Increased Retirement Savings? (slides)
4:40pm

(Not) Thinking about the Future: Inattention and Maternal Labor Supply
5:15pm
Adjourn
6:00pm
Dinner, Longfellow Room, Royal Sonesta Hotel
Friday, October 25
8:00am
Breakfast
8:30am

Parents' Earnings and the Returns to Universal Pre-Kindergarten
9:05am

Legal Assistance for Evictions: Impacts, Mechanisms, and Demand
9:40am
Break
10:00am

Unemployment Insurance Fraud in the Debit Card Market
10:25am

Unemployment Insurance During the Pandemic
Note: This presentation will not be livestreamed.
10:50am

Disemployment Effects of Unemployment Insurance: A Meta-Analysis
11:15am
Break
11:35am

Confounded? Welfare Reform and the Earned Income Tax Credit in the 1990s (slides)
12:10pm
Lunch, Longfellow Room, Royal Sonesta Hotel
1:10pm

The Political Economy of Stimulus Transfers
1:45pm

A Welfare Analysis of Policies Impacting Climate Change
2:20pm
Adjourn