SI 2017 Public Economics

Amy Finkelstein and Raj Chetty, Organizers

July 25, 2017

Skyline Room

Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Tuesday, July 25
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Morning joint with Labor Studies in Ballroom B
8:30 am	Justine S. Hastings, University of Washington Jesse M. Shapiro, Harvard University and NBER How Are SNAP Benefits Spent? Evidence from a Retail Panel
9:20 am	Matthew Smith, Department of the Treasury Danny Yagan, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Owen M. Zidar, Princeton University and NBER Eric Zwick, University of Chicago and NBER Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century
10:10 am	Break
10:30 am	Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley and NBER David G. Seim, Stockholm University Benjamin Schoefer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Firm Behavior and Payroll Taxes: Evidence from a Young Workers Tax Cut in Sweden
11:20 am	Youssef Benzarti, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER Dorian Carloni, Congressional Budget Office Jarkko Harju, Tampere University and FIT Tuomas Kosonen, VATT Institute for Economic Research What Goes Up May Not Come Down: Asymmetric Incidence of Value-Added Taxes.
12:10 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Lorenz Kueng, Swiss Finance Institute Scott R. Baker, Northwestern University and NBER Shopping for Lower Sales Tax Rates
1:35 pm	Cheng Cheng, Amazon Wei Long, Tulane University Can the Private Sector Provide Better Police Services?
2:10 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Lukas Buchheim, TU Dortmund Martin Watzinger, University of Muenster The Employment Effects of Countercyclical Infrastructure Investments
3:05 pm	Andrew C. Johnston Unemployment Insurance Taxes and Labor Demand: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Administrative Data
3:40 pm	Alisa Tazhitdinova, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER Adjust Me if I Can't: The Effect of Firm Incentives on Labor Supply Responses to Taxes
4:15 pm	Adjourn
5:00 pm	Methods Lecture, Jon Schwabish, Urban Institute Improving Data Presentation