Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar: Economic Behavior and Inequality

Hilary W. Hoynes and Claus Thustrup Kreiner, Organizers

June 6-8, 2022

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, June 6
SESSION 1
11:00 am
Chloe N. East, University of Colorado Denver and NBER
Sarah Miller, University of Michigan and NBER
Marianne E. Page, University of California, Davis and NBER
Laura Wherry, New York University and NBER

Multi-Generational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation’s Health
Discussant: Mette Gørtz, University of Copenhagen
12:15 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
Keynote: Children and the US Social Safety Net: Balancing Disincentives for Adults and Benefits for Children
Hilary Hoynes, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
2:45 pm
Coffee Break
SESSION 2
3:00 pm
Tatiana Homonoff, New York University and NBER
Eric Giannella, Code for America
Gwen Rino, Code for America
Jason Somerville, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Removing Barriers to Program Enrollment: Experimental Evidence from SNAP
Discussant: Daphne Skandalis, University of Copenhagen
4:15 pm
Petra G. Cavalca, University of Copenhagen
Mette Ejrnaes, University of Copenhagen
Mette Gørtz, University of Copenhagen

Health, Education and Crime of Children in Out-of-Home Care
Discussant: Petter Lundborg, Lund University
5:30 pm
Adjourn
7:00 pm
Dinner at Restaurant Orangeriet, King’s Garden
Tuesday, June 7
SESSION 3
9:00 am
Søren Leth-Petersen, University of Copenhagen
Andrew Caplin, New York University and NBER
Eungik Lee, New York University
Johan Saeverud, University of Copenhagen

Communicating Social Security Reform
Discussant: James M. Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:15 am
Daniel K. Fetter, Dartmouth College and NBER
Lee Lockwood, University of Virginia and NBER
Paul Mohnen, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Long-Run Intergenerational Effects of Social Security
Discussant: Arthur Seibold, University of Mannheim
11:30 am
Coffee Break
SESSION 4
11:45 am
Sarah Eichmeyer, Bocconi University
Christina A. Kent, Stanford University

Parenthood in Poverty
Discussant: Anne Ardila Brenøe, University of Zurich
1:00 pm
Lunch
SESSION 5
2:00 pm
Peter Andre, Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE

Shallow Meritocracy
Discussant: Jason Somerville, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
3:15 pm
Break and walk to big seminar room
3:30 pm
Keynote: Inequality, Redistribution and the Labour Market: Reflections from the Deaton Review
Richard Blundell, University College London, IFS, CEPR
4:45 pm
Reception
5:15 pm
Walk to Nyhavn (taxi if needed)
6:00 pm
Boat trip in the canals of Copenhagen (pick-up in Nyhavn)
7:15 pm
Dinner at Restaurant SALT at Admiral Hotel
Wednesday, June 8
SESSION 6
9:00 am
Antoine Ferey, Sciences Po
Benjamin Lockwood, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Dmitry Taubinsky, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Sufficient Statistics for Nonlinear Tax Systems with General Across-Income Heterogeneity
Discussant: Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
10:15 am
William Boning, Department of the Treasury
Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Ben Sprung-Keyser, Harvard University
Ellen M. Stuart, University of Sydney

The Heterogeneous Welfare Impacts of Tax Enforcement
Discussant: Jakob Egholt Søgaard, University of Copenhagen and CEBI
11:30 am
Coffee Break
SESSION 7
11:45 am
Sydnee Caldwell, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Scott T. Nelson, University of Chicago
Daniel C. Waldinger, New York University and NBER

Tax Refund Uncertainty: Evidence and Welfare Implications
Discussant: Niels Johannesen, Oxford University
1:00 pm
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