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	Bruce D. Meyer, University of Chicago and NBER Derek Wu, University of Virginia Victoria D. Mooers, University of Chicago The Use and Misuse of Income Data and the Rarity of Extreme Poverty in the United States
9:30 am	Marta Murray-Close, U.S. Census Bureau Misty L. Heggeness, University of Kansas Manning Up and Womaning Down: How Husbands and Wives Report Their Earnings When She Earns More (slides)
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Daniel W. Sacks, University of Wisconsin - Madison Bradley Heim, Indiana University Ithai Lurie, Department of the Treasury Does the Individual Mandate Affect Insurance Coverage? Evidence from the Population of Tax Returns
10:45 am	Alisa Tazhitdinova, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER Increasing Hours Worked: Moonlighting Responses to a Large Tax Reform
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	Aditya Aladangady, University of Michigan Shifrah Aron-Dine, Stanford University David Cashin, Federal Reserve Board of Governors Wendy Dunn, Federal Reserve Board of Governors Laura Feiveson, U. S. Department of Treasury Paul Lengermann, Federal Reserve Board of Governors Katherine Richard, University of Michigan Claudia R. Sahm, Jain Family Institute High-frequency Spending Responses to the Earned Income Tax Credit
12:00 pm	Jacob Bastian, Rutgers University Maggie R. Jones, U.S. Census Bureau Do EITC Expansions Pay for Themselves? Effects on Tax Revenue and Public Assistance Spending
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:20 pm	Tatiana Homonoff, New York University and NBER Jason Somerville, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Program Recertification Costs: Evidence from SNAP
2:10 pm	Maria Polyakova, Stanford University and NBER Stephen P. Ryan, Washington University in St Louis and NBER Subsidy Targeting with Market Power
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	John N. Tsivanidis, University of California, Berkeley The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Urban Transit Infrastructure: Evidence from Bogotá's TransMilenio
4:20 pm	Break
4:30 pm	Victor Stango, University of California at Davis Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth College and NBER 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	François Gerard, Queen Mary University of London Joana Naritomi, London School of Economics Job Displacement Insurance and (the Lack of) Consumption-Smoothing
9:50 am	Break
10:05 am	Paul Hufe, University of Bristol Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University Andreas Peichl, University of Munich Measuring Unfair Inequality: Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty
10:55 am	Break
11:10 am	Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER Michael J. Dickstein, New York University and NBER Timothy McQuade, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Petra Persson, Stanford University and NBER Take-Up, Drop-Out, and Spending in ACA Marketplaces
12:00 pm	Lunch and Adjourn