SI 2016 Public Econ. Taxation & Social Insurance

Amy Finkelstein and Raj Chetty, Organizers

July 26, 2016

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Tuesday, July 26
8:30 am	Thomas Piketty, Paris School of Economics Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States, 1913-2013
9:20 am	David W. Berger, Duke University and NBER Nicholas Turner, Federal Reserve Board Eric Zwick, University of Chicago and NBER Stimulating Housing Markets
10:30 am	Hunt Allcott, Stanford University and NBER Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER Jean-Pierre H. Dubé, University of Chicago and NBER The Geography of Poverty and Nutrition: Food Deserts and Food Choices Across the United States
11:20 am	Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Rema Hanna, Harvard University and NBER Jordan C. Kyle, IFPRI Benjamin A. Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Sudarno Sumarto, TNP2K Contracting Out the Last-Mile of Service Delivery: Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia
1:00 pm	Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Maria Polyakova, Stanford University and NBER Private Provision of Social Insurance: Drug-Specific Price Elasticities and Cost-Sharing in Medicare Part D
1:45 pm	Marika Cabral, University of Texas at Austin and NBER Mark R. Cullen, Stanford University and NBER Estimating the Value of Public Insurance Using Complementary Private Insurance
2:40 pm	Arash Nekoei, Stockholm University David G. Seim, Stockholm University On the Accumulation of Wealth: the Role of Inheritance
3:15 pm	Jonathan Goupille-Lebret, CNRS, Univ. de Lyon Arturo Infante, Axa Behavioral Responses to Inheritance Tax: Evidence from Nocthes in France
4:05 pm	Giogia Maffini, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Jing Xing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Micheal P. Devereux, University of Oxford The Impact of Investment Incentives: Evidence from UK Corporation Tax Returns
4:05 pm	Jing Xing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Giogia Maffini, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Micheal P. Devereux, University of Oxford Corporate Tax Incentives and Capital Structure: Empirical Evidence from UK Tax Returns
4:50 pm	Kory Kroft, University of Toronto and NBER Matthew J. Notowidigdo, University of Chicago and NBER The Welfare Effects of Endogenous Product Variety: Evidence from Commodity Taxes in the U.S.