Public Economics Program Meeting

April 18-19, 2024

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Skyline Room, Cambridge, MA

Thursday, April 18
	Continental Breakfast
	Empirical Research Using Tax Data Session
9:00 am	Taxing Top Wealth: Migration Responses and their Aggregate Economic Implications
9:40 am	The Firm as Tax Shelter: Micro Evidence and Aggregate Implications of Consumption Through the Firm (slides)
	(this paper is not available for download)
	Break
10:40 am	Estimating Income Effects on Earnings using the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion
11:20 am	Firm Heterogeneity and the Incidence of Earned Income Tax Credits: Evidence from Italy
	Lunch - Room Skyline DE
12:50 pm	The Effect of Disability Benefits Loss on Earnings, Income, and Health Care Utilization
1:30 pm	Who Benefits from Retirement Saving Incentives in the U.S.? Evidence on Racial Gaps in Retirement Wealth Accumulation
	Break
2:40 pm	The Effect of Means-Tested Transfers on Work: Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned SNAP Caseworkers
	Public Economics Program Meeting Begins
3:20 pm	Permanent Residency Policy and Skilled Immigration: Evidence from a Swedish Reform
	Break
4:20 pm	Immigration Enforcement and Public Safety
	Adjourn
	Reception and Group Dinner, Royal Sonesta Hotel, Room Skyline DE Dinner Speaker: Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER (not available on livestream)
Friday, April 19
	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	When Do “Nudges” Increase Welfare?
9:40 am	Time-Limited Subsidies: Optimal Taxation with Implications for Renewable Energy Subsidies
	Break
10:40 am	Managing Aggrievement
	Break
11:40 am	Public Good Perceptions and Polarization: Evidence from Higher Education Appropriations
12:20 pm	Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of US Political Divides (slides)
	Adjourn