Public Economics Program Meeting

Ellora Derenoncourt, Neale Mahoney, and Eric Zwick, Organizers

April 21-22, 2022

Cambridge, MA and Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, April 21
8:15 am
Continental Breakfast
Empirical Research Using Tax Data Session
(the live-stream will start with the 9:15 am presentation)
8:45 am
Nirupama L. Rao, University of Michigan
Max Risch, Carnegie Mellon University

How Do Small Firms Accommodate Minimum Wage Increases? Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Tax Returns
9:15 am
Jonathan M. Colmer, University of Virginia
John L. Voorheis, U.S. Census Bureau
Brennan Williams, University of Virginia

Air Pollution and Economic Opportunity in the United States
9:45 am
Break
10:00 am
George Bulman, University of California, Santa Cruz and NBER
Sarena Goodman, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Adam Isen, Johns Hopkins University

The Effect of Financial Resources on Homeownership, Marriage, and Fertility: Evidence from State Lotteries
10:30 am
Ithai Lurie, Department of the Treasury
Elena Patel, University of Utah
Shanthi Ramnath, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Inducing Labor: the Impact of Health Insurance on Post-Natal Labor Supply
11:00 am
Break
11:15 am
Motohiro Yogo, Princeton University and NBER
Andrew Whitten, Department of the Treasury
Natalie Cox, Princeton University

Financial Inclusion Across the United States
11:45 am
Jonas Kolsrud, Uppsala University
Camille Landais, London School of Economics
Johannes Spinnewijn, London School of Economics
Daniel Reck, University of Maryland and NBER

Retirement Consumption and Pension Design
12:15 pm
Lunch- Somerset Room
Public Economics Program Meeting begins
1:00 pm
Kevin A. Roberts, Stanford Graduate School of Business
E. Mark Curtis, Wake Forest University
Eric C. Ohrn, Grinnell College
Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Stanford University and NBER
Daniel G. Garrett, University of Pennsylvania

Capital Investment and Labor Demand
1:40 pm
Ursina M. Schaede, Tufts University
Ville Mankki, University of Turku

Quota vs. Quality? Long-Term Gains from an Unusual Gender Quota
2:20 pm
Break
2:40 pm
Matias Giaccobasso, VATT Institute for Economic Research and FIT
Brad C. Nathan, Rutgers University
Ricardo Perez-Truglia, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Alejandro Zentner, University of Texas at Dallas

Where Do My Tax Dollars Go? Tax Morale Effects of Perceived Government Spending
3:20 pm
Sarah Robinson, Claremont McKenna College
Alisa Tazhitdinova, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER

What Drives Tax Policy? Political, Institutional and Economic Determinants of State Tax Policy in the Past 70 Years
4:00 pm
Break
4:20 pm
Thomas Blanchet, University of California, Berkeley
Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Real-Time Inequality
5:00 pm
Adjourn
5:30 pm
Reception and Group Dinner - Parkview Room
Friday, April 22
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
(the live-stream will start with the 10:00 am presentation)
9:20 am
Andrew Garin, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Emilie Jackson, Michigan State University
Dmitri K. Koustas, University of Chicago
Alicia Miller, Internal Revenue Service

The Evolution of Platform Gig Work, 2012-2020
10:00 am
Katy Bergstom, Tulane University
William Dodds, Tulane University
Juan Rios, Uber

Welfare Analysis of Changing Notches: Evidence from Bolsa Familia
10:40 am
Break
11:00 am
Aria Golestani, Cornell University

Silenced: Consequences of the Nuisance Property Ordinances
11:40 am
Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER
Enrico Moretti, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Where is Standard of Living the Highest? Local Prices and the Geography of Consumption
12:20 pm
Adjourn