SI 2020 Public Economics

Raj Chetty, Jeffrey Clemens, Nathaniel Hendren, Henrik Kleven, Dmitry Taubinsky, and Danny Yagan, Organizers

July 14-15, 2020

on Zoom.us

Tuesday, July 14
	Tax Moderator: Jeffrey Clemens, University of California at San Diego and NBER
11:00 am	The Optimal Taxation of Lotteries: Who P(l)ays and Who Wins? (slides)
11:35 am	Wealth Taxation and Household Saving: Evidence from Assessment Discontinuities in Norway
12:10 pm	Break
	Policies Targeted at Children Moderator: Nathan Hendren, Harvard University and NBER
1:00 pm	Bailing out the Kids: New Evidence on Informal Insurance from one Billion Bank Transfers
1:35 pm	Short- and Long-Run Effects of a Sizable Child Subsidy: Evidence from Russia (slides)
2:10 pm	Break
	Policy Implementation and Evaluation Moderator: Dmitry Taubinsky, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
2:30 pm	Understanding Economic Policies: What Do People Know and Learn?
3:05 pm	RCTs to Scale: Comprehensive Evidence from Two Nudge Units
3:40 pm	Break
4:10 pm	Panel: Public Economists' Perspectives on Policy Responses to COVID-19 Jason Furman, Harvard University John Friedman, Brown University and NBER Nathaniel Hendren, Harvard University and NBER Hilary Hoynes, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Ivan Werning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
5:25 pm	Adjourn
Wednesday, July 15
	Public Economics in Historical Contexts Moderator: Danny Yagan, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
11:00 am	Do Youth Employment Programs Work? Evidence from the New Deal
11:35 am	Demand Shocks, Procurement Policies, and the Nature of Medical Innovation: Evidence from Wartime Prosthetic Device Patents
12:10 pm	Break
	Measurement Related to Mobility and Inequality Moderator: Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
1:00 pm	Intergenerational Mobility in India: Estimates from New Methods and Administrative Data
1:35 pm	Wealth, Race, and Consumption Smoothing of Typical Income Shocks
2:10 pm	Break
	Evaluating the Optimality of Policy Instruments Moderator: Henrik Kleven, Princeton University and NBER
2:30 pm	Mandatory Advance Notice of Layoff: Evidence and Efficiency Considerations
3:05 pm	Place-Based Redistribution
3:40 pm	Adjourn
	FORMAT: Presenters will have 35 minutes to present and answer questions. The moderator will invite presenters' co-authors to address audience questions in the Zoom chat while the presenter is presenting. The moderator may also voice questions from the Zoom chat directly to the presenter during the presentation. Presenters are invited to leave up to five minutes at the end for audience questions that the moderator selects from the Zoom chat.