Public Economics Program Meeting

Marika Cabral and Jacob Goldin, Organizers

October 24-25, 2024

Riverfront Room, Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA

Thursday, October 24
11:30am	Lunch, Longfellow Room, Royal Sonesta Hotel
12:45pm	Tim de Silva, Stanford University Insurance versus Moral Hazard in Income-Contingent Student Loan Repayment
1:20pm	Michael Dinerstein, Duke University and NBER Samuel Earnest, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dmitri K. Koustas, University of Chicago Constantine Yannelis, University of Cambridge and NBER Student Loan Forgiveness
1:55pm	Break
2:15pm	Edward Fox, University of Michigan Zachary Liscow, Yale University How Much Do Unrealized Gains and Borrowing Reduce the Rich’s Income Taxes? (slides)
2:45pm	Bradley Heim, Indiana University Ithai Lurie, Department of the Treasury Elena Patel, University of Utah Shanthi Ramnath, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Medicaid-ing Coverage Volatility: Evidence from the 2019 Virginia Medicaid Expansion (slides)
3:15pm	Katy Bergstrom, Tulane University William Dodds, Tulane University Juan Fernando Rios Rivera, PUC Rio Optimal Policy Reforms
3:45pm	Break
4:05pm	Taha Choukhmane, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Christopher Palmer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER How Do Consumers Finance Increased Retirement Savings? (slides)
4:40pm	Ana Costa-Ramón, University of Zurich Ursina Schaede, Tufts University Michaela Slotwinski, University of Zurich Anne Ardila Brenøe, University of Zurich (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	John Eric Humphries, Yale University and NBER Christopher Neilson, Yale University and NBER Xiaoyang Ye, Brown University Seth D. Zimmerman, Yale University and NBER Parents' Earnings and the Returns to Universal Pre-Kindergarten
9:05am	Aviv Caspi, Stanford University Charlie Rafkin, U.C. Berkeley Legal Assistance for Evictions: Impacts, Mechanisms, and Demand
9:40am	Break
10:00am	Umang Khetan, University of Iowa Jetson Leder-Luis, Boston University and NBER Jialan Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER Yunrong Zhou, Purdue University Unemployment Insurance Fraud in the Debit Card Market
10:25am	Adam Isen, Johns Hopkins University Elira Kuka, George Washington University and NBER Bryan A. Stuart, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Unemployment Insurance During the Pandemic Note: This presentation will not be livestreamed.
10:50am	Jonathan P. Cohen, Amazon Peter Ganong, University of Chicago and NBER Disemployment Effects of Unemployment Insurance: A Meta-Analysis
11:15am	Break
11:35am	Adam Looney, University of Utah Confounded? Welfare Reform and the Earned Income Tax Credit in the 1990s (slides)
12:10pm	Lunch, Longfellow Room, Royal Sonesta Hotel
1:10pm	Silvia Vannutelli, Northwestern University and NBER The Political Economy of Stimulus Transfers
1:45pm	Robert W. Hahn, University of Oxford Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Robert D. Metcalfe, Columbia University and NBER Ben Sprung-Keyser, Wharton School A Welfare Analysis of Policies Impacting Climate Change
2:20pm	Adjourn