Public Economics Program Meeting

Nathaniel Hendren and Eric Zwick, Organizers

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	Katrine Jakobsen, University of Copenhagen Henrik Kleven, Princeton University and NBER Jonas Kolsrud, Uppsala University Camille Landais, London School of Economics Mathilde Muñoz, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Taxing Top Wealth: Migration Responses and their Aggregate Economic Implications
9:40 am	David Leite, Paris School of Economics The Firm as Tax Shelter: Micro Evidence and Aggregate Implications of Consumption Through the Firm
	(this paper is not available for download)
	Break
10:40 am	Kye Lippold, U.S. Department of the Treasury Beata Luczywek, University of California, San Diego Estimating Income Effects on Earnings using the 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion
11:20 am	Valeria Zurla, CSEF University of Naples Federico II Firm Heterogeneity and the Incidence of Earned Income Tax Credits: Evidence from Italy
	Lunch - Room Skyline DE
12:50 pm	Manasi Deshpande, University of Chicago and NBER Greg Kaplan, University of Chicago and NBER Tobias Leigh-Wood, University of Chicago Yalun Su, University of Chicago The Effect of Disability Benefits Loss on Earnings, Income, and Health Care Utilization
1:30 pm	Taha Choukhmane, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Jorge Colmenares, Harvard University Cormac O'Dea, Yale University and NBER Jonathan L. Rothbaum, U.S. Census Bureau Lawrence D.W. Schmidt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Who Benefits from Retirement Saving Incentives in the U.S.? Evidence on Racial Gaps in Retirement Wealth Accumulation
	Break
2:40 pm	Jason B. Cook, University of Utah Chloe N. East, University of Colorado Denver and NBER The Effect of Means-Tested Transfers on Work: Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned SNAP Caseworkers
	Public Economics Program Meeting Begins
3:20 pm	Akib Khan, Uppsala University Erik Lundberg, Uppsala University Permanent Residency Policy and Skilled Immigration: Evidence from a Swedish Reform
	Break
4:20 pm	Felipe M. Gonçalves, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Elisa Jácome, Northwestern University and NBER Emily K. Weisburst, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER 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	Hunt Allcott, Stanford University and NBER Daniel Cohen, Northwestern University William Morrison, University of California, Berkeley Dmitry Taubinsky, University of California, Berkeley and NBER When Do “Nudges” Increase Welfare?
9:40 am	Michael Ricks, University of Nebraska - Lincoln Owen A. Kay, University of Michigan Time-Limited Subsidies: Optimal Taxation with Implications for Renewable Energy Subsidies
	Break
10:40 am	Jefferson Duarte, Rice University Tarik Umar, Rice University Emmanuel Yimfor, Columbia University Managing Aggrievement
	Break
11:40 am	Reuben Hurst, University of Maryland Andrew Simon, University of Chicago Michael Ricks, University of Nebraska - Lincoln Public Good Perceptions and Polarization: Evidence from Higher Education Appropriations
12:20 pm	Sahil Chinoy, Harvard University Nathan Nunn, University of British Columbia and NBER Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER Sandra Sequeira, London School of Economics Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of US Political Divides (slides)
	Adjourn