SI 2018 Public Economics
Amy Finkelstein, Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, and Owen M. Zidar, Organizers
July 24, 2018
Longfellow Room
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
| Tuesday, July 24 | ||
| 8:00 am | Coffee and Pastries | |
| Morning joint with Labor Studies in Ballroom B | ||
| 8:30 am |
Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Maggie R. Jones, U.S. Census Bureau Sonya Porter, U.S. Census Bureau Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective |
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| 9:20 am |
Daniel I. Tannenbaum, University of Nebraska-Lincoln John Eric Humphries, Yale University and NBER Winnie L. van Dijk, Yale University and NBER Nicholas S. Mader, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago Does Eviction Cause Poverty? Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Cook County, IL |
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| 10:10 am | Break | |
| 10:30 am |
Simon Freyaldenhoven, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Christian Hansen, University of Chicago Jesse M. Shapiro, Harvard University and NBER Pre-event Trends in the Panel Event-study Design |
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| 11:20 am |
Bernadus Doornik, Banco Central do Brasil David Schoenherr, Princeton University Janis Skrastins, Washington University in St. Louis Unemployment Insurance, Strategic Unemployment, and Firm-Worker Collusion |
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| 12:10 pm | Lunch | |
| 12:50 pm |
Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Matthew J. Notowidigdo, University of Chicago and NBER Take-up and Targeting: Experimental Evidence from SNAP |
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| 1:40 pm |
Maria Paula Gerardino, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Stephan Litschig, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies Dina Pomeranz, University of Zurich Can Audits Backfire? Evidence from Public Procurement in Chile |
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| 2:30 pm | Break | |
| 2:45 pm |
Jialan Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER Brian Baugh, University of Nebraska-Lincoln When Is It Hard to Make Ends Meet? |
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| 3:35 pm |
Max Löffler, University of Cologne Sebastian Siegloch, University of Mannheim Property Taxation, Housing, and Local Labor Markets: Evidence from German Municipalities |
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| 4:25 pm |
Louis Kaplow, Harvard University and NBER Market Power and Income Taxation |
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| 5:15 pm | Adjourn | |