SI 2024 Public Economics

Augustin Bergeron, Raj Chetty, Eric Chyn, Benjamin B. Lockwood, Maria Polyakova, Mathilde Muñoz, and Tatiana Homonoff, Organizers

July 23-24, 2024

Longfellow

Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Tuesday, July 23
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:30 am	Pablo D. Fajgelbaum, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Amit Khandelwal, Yale University and NBER The Value of De Minimis Imports
10:15 am	Martin B. Hackmann, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Jörg Heining, Institute for Employment Research (IAB) Roman Klimke, Harvard University Maria Polyakova, Stanford University and NBER Holger Seibert, Institute for Employment Research (IAB) Health Insurance as Economic Stimulus? Evidence from Long-Term Care Jobs
11:00 am	Break
11:20 am	Valeria Zurla, CSEF University of Naples Federico II How Should We Design Parental Leave Policies? Evidence from Two Reforms in Italy
12:05 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	Justine Knebelmann, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Victor Pouliquen, University of Essex Bassirou Sarr, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Discretion versus Algorithms: Bureaucrats and Tax Equity in Senegal
2:00 pm	Thomas Cornelissen, University of Essex Mimosa Distefano, London School of Economics Christian Dustmann, University College London Uta Schönberg, University College London The Effects of Business Taxation on Local Labor Markets, Firms and Workers
2:45 pm	Break
3:05 pm	Antoine B. Levy, University of California, Berkeley Timothy McQuade, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Thomas Bezy, Paris School of Economics Insuring Landlords
3:50 pm	Break
4:05 pm	Raymond Kluender, Harvard University Neale Mahoney, Stanford University and NBER Francis Wong, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Wesley Yin, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER The Effects of Medical Debt Relief: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments
4:50 pm	Adjourn
Wednesday, July 24
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Morning joint with Labor Studies in Ballroom A
8:30 am	Jack Mountjoy, University of Chicago and NBER Marginal Returns to Public Universities
9:15 am	Break
9:30 am	Miguel Acosta, University of Wisconsin - Madison Andreas I. Mueller, University of Zurich Emi Nakamura, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Jón Steinsson, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Macroeconomic Effects of UI Extensions at Short and Long Durations
10:15 am	Jacob Goldin, University of Chicago and NBER Tatiana Homonoff, New York University and NBER Neel A. Lal, University of Chicago Ithai Lurie, Department of the Treasury Katherine Michelmore, University of Michigan and NBER Matt Unrath, University of Southern California Work Requirements and Child Tax Benefits: Evidence from California
11:00 am	Break
11:20 am	Eva Vivalt, University of Toronto Alexander W. Bartik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign David E. Broockman, University of California, Berkeley Sarah Miller, University of Michigan and NBER Elizabeth Rhodes, OpenResearch The Employment Effects of a Guaranteed Income: Experimental Evidence from Two U.S. States
12:05 pm	Lunch