Public Economics Program Meeting

Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, and Eric Zwick, Organizers

April 4-5, 2019

NBER, 2nd Floor Conference Room, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA

Thursday, April 4
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
	Morning Session: Empirical Research Using Administrative Tax Data
9:00 am	The Use and Misuse of Income Data and the Rarity of Extreme Poverty in the United States
9:30 am	Manning Up and Womaning Down: How Husbands and Wives Report Their Earnings When She Earns More (slides)
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Does the Individual Mandate Affect Insurance Coverage? Evidence from the Population of Tax Returns
10:45 am	Increasing Hours Worked: Moonlighting Responses to a Large Tax Reform
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	High-frequency Spending Responses to the Earned Income Tax Credit
12:00 pm	Do EITC Expansions Pay for Themselves? Effects on Tax Revenue and Public Assistance Spending
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:20 pm	Program Recertification Costs: Evidence from SNAP
2:10 pm	Subsidy Targeting with Market Power
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Urban Transit Infrastructure: Evidence from Bogotá's TransMilenio
4:20 pm	Break
4:30 pm	We are all Behavioral, More or Less: Measuring and Using Consumer-Level Behavioral Sufficient Statistics
5:20 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Dinner Royal Sonesta Hotel 40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard Cambridge, MA
	Dinner Speakers: Emmanuel Saez and Lawrence H. Summers Conversation on U.S. Wealth Tax Proposals
Friday, April 5
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Job Displacement Insurance and (the Lack of) Consumption-Smoothing
9:50 am	Break
10:05 am	Measuring Unfair Inequality: Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty
10:55 am	Break
11:10 am	Take-Up, Drop-Out, and Spending in ACA Marketplaces
12:00 pm	Lunch and Adjourn