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

Summer Institute 2019 master schedule

Tuesday, July 23
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Morning joint with Labor Studies in the Ballroom
8:30 am Ballroom	Peter Bergman, University of Texas at Austin and NBER Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER Stefanie DeLuca, Johns Hopkins University John N. Friedman, Brown University and NBER Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Maggie R. Jones, U.S. Census Bureau Lawrence F. Katz, Harvard University and NBER Christopher Palmer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Sonya Porter, U.S. Census Bureau Using the Opportunity Atlas to Create Moves to Opportunity: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment with Housing Voucher Recipients in Seattle
9:15 am Ballroom	Christian Dustmann, University College London Attila S. Lindner, University College London Uta Schönberg, University College London Matthias Umkehrer, IAB Germany Philipp vom Berge, IAB Germany Reallocation Effects of the Minimum Wage: Evidence From Germany
10:00 am	Break
	Session on Labor Supply Responses to Policy
10:20 am Ballroom	Isabel Z. Martinez, ETH Zurich Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Michael Siegenthaler, KOF Swiss Economic Institute Intertemporal Labor Supply Substitution? Evidence from the Swiss Income Tax Holidays (slides)
10:55 am Ballroom	Jósef Sigurdsson, Stockholm University Labor Supply Responses and Adjustment Frictions: A Tax-Free Year in Iceland
11:30 am Ballroom	Arezou Zaresani, University of Sydney 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	Terry Moon, University of British Columbia Capital Gains Taxes and Real Corporate Investment
1:30 pm	Charles Boissel, HEC-Paris Adrien Matray, Princeton University and NBER Higher Dividend Taxes, No Problem! Evidence from Taxing Entrepreneurs in France
2:00 pm	Break
2:15 pm	David S. Lee, Princeton University and NBER Pauline Leung, Cornell University Christopher J. O'Leary, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Zhuan Pei, Cornell University Simon Quach, University of Southern California Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance
2:55 pm	Giulia Giupponi, Bocconi University When Income Effects are Large: Labor Supply Responses and the Value of Welfare Transfers
3:35 pm	Break
3:50 pm	Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, University of Oxford Clement Imbert, University of Warwick Maarten Luts, Federal Public Service (FPS) Finance Johannes Spinnewijn, London School of Economics Teodora Tsankova, University of Warwick How to Improve Tax Compliance? Evidence from Population-wide Experiments in Belgium
4:30 pm	Matthew Smith, Department of the Treasury Owen M. Zidar, Princeton University and NBER Eric Zwick, University of Chicago and NBER Top Wealth in the United States: New Estimates and Implications for Taxing the Rich
5:10 pm	Adjourn