Tax Policy and the Economy

Robert A. Moffitt, Organizer

September 22, 2022

National Press Club, 529 14th Street, N.W., Washington DC

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, September 22
8:00 am
Registration and Breakfast
8:30 am
Welcome / Opening Remarks
8:35 am
Jonathan Meer, Texas A&M University and NBER
Joshua Witter, Amazon.com LLC

Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit for Childless Adults: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
9:15 am
David Altig, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Boston University and NBER
Victor Yifan Ye, Opendoor Technologies

How Much in Social Security Benefits Are Americans Leaving on the Table (slides)
9:55 am
Break
10:15 am
Katarzyna A. Bilicka, Utah State University and NBER
Michael P. Devereux, University of Oxford
Irem Guceri, University of Oxford

Tax Avoidance Networks and the Push for a 'Historic' Global Tax Reform
10:55 am
Break
11:15 am
Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
Caitlin S. Gorback, University of Texas at Austin
James M. Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

The Distributional Burden of Fuel Taxes and Transportation User Fees
11:55 am
Mark Duggan, Stanford University and NBER
Audrey Guo, Santa Clara University
Andrew Johnston, University of California, Merced and NBER

Experience Rating as an Automatic Stabilizer
12:35 pm
Lunch
Lunch Speaker – Cecilia Rouse, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers
1:50 pm
Adjourn