SI 2019 Public Economics

Raj Chetty, Jeffrey Clemens, Amy Finkelstein, Nathaniel Hendren, Stefanie Stantcheva, and Owen M. Zidar, Organizers

July 23, 2019

Longfellow Room

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

Tuesday, July 23
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Morning joint with Labor Studies in the Ballroom
8:30 am Ballroom	Using the Opportunity Atlas to Create Moves to Opportunity: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment with Housing Voucher Recipients in Seattle
9:15 am Ballroom	Reallocation Effects of the Minimum Wage: Evidence From Germany
10:00 am	Break
	Session on Labor Supply Responses to Policy
10:20 am Ballroom	Intertemporal Labor Supply Substitution? Evidence from the Swiss Income Tax Holidays (slides)
10:55 am Ballroom	Labor Supply Responses and Adjustment Frictions: A Tax-Free Year in Iceland
11:30 am Ballroom	Adjustment Costs and Incentives to Work: Evidence from a Disability Insurance Program
12:00 noon	Lunch
	Public Economics Workshop continues in the Longfellow Room
	Session on Real Responses to Corporate Taxation
1:00 pm	Capital Gains Taxes and Real Corporate Investment
1:30 pm	Higher Dividend Taxes, No Problem! Evidence from Taxing Entrepreneurs in France
2:00 pm	Break
2:15 pm	Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance
2:55 pm	When Income Effects are Large: Labor Supply Responses and the Value of Welfare Transfers
3:35 pm	Break
3:50 pm	How to Improve Tax Compliance? Evidence from Population-wide Experiments in Belgium
4:30 pm	Top Wealth in the United States: New Estimates and Implications for Taxing the Rich
5:10 pm	Adjourn