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, University of Lugano
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