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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Public Economics Program Meeting

Raj Chetty and Emmanuel Saez, Organizers

November 3-4, 2011

NBER,
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138

PROGRAM

Thursday, November 3, 2011
9:00 am	Shuttle Van Departs the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
9:30 am	Continental Breakfast
10:00 am- 11:15 am	Recent Research Using Administrative Tax Data
	Timothy Dowd, Joint Committee on Taxation Robert McClelland and Athiphat Muthitacharoen, Congressional Budget Office The Tax Elasticity of Capital Gains in the 21^st Century
	Peter Brady, Investment Company Institute Kevin Pierce, Statistics of Income, Internal Revenue Service Using Panel Tax Data to Examine the Transition into Retirement
	Nicholas Turner, Office of Tax Analysis, Department of Treasury Do Students Profit from For-Profit Education? Estimating the Returns to Postsecondary Education with Tax Data
11:15 am	Break
11:35 am- 12:30 pm	Using United States Population Tax Data for Tax Policy Research
	Raj Chetty and John Friedman, Harvard University and NBER Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Nathaniel Hilger and Danny Yagan, Harvard University The IRS Databank: Developing a Population Panel Dataset for Tax Policy Research
	Barry Johnson, Statistics of Income, Internal Revenue Service Call for Research Projects using United States Tax Data
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Thomas Piketty, Paris School of Economics Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley and NBER A Theory of Optimal Capital Taxation
2:20 pm	Philippe Aghion and William Kerr, Harvard University and NBER Ufuk Akcigit, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Julia Cage, Harvard University Taxation, Corruption and Growth
3:10 pm	Break
3:40 pm	Nikolaos Artavanis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Adair Morse, University of Chicago Margarita Tsoutsoura, University of Chicago A New Method to Estimate Tax Evasion Using Financial Institution Lending The Case of Greece
4:30 pm	Break
5:00 pm	Saurabh Bhargava, University of Chicago Day Manoli, University of Los Angeles and NBER Why Are Benefits Left on the Table? Assessing Incomplete Take-up with an IRS Field Experiment
5:50 pm	Adjourn
7:00 pm	Reception and Dinner Harvard Faculty Club 20 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA
8:30 pm 8:45 pm 9:00 pm	Shuttle Van Departs the Harvard Faculty Club for the Royal Sonesta Hotel Shuttle Van Departs the Harvard Faculty Club for the Royal Sonesta Hotel Shuttle Van Departs the Harvard Faculty Club for the Royal Sonesta Hotel
Friday, November 4, 2011
7:45 am 8:00 am	Shuttle Van Departs the Royal Sonesta Hotel to the NBER Shuttle Van Departs the Royal Sonesta Hotel to the NBER
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	Casey Rothschild, Wellesley College Florian Scheuer, Stanford University and NBER Optimal Taxation with Rent-Seeking
9:20 am	Break
9:40 am	Ryan Buell and Michael Norton, Harvard University Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University and NBER Taly Reich, Stanford University Last-place Aversion: Evidence and Redistributive Implications
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Dina Pomeranz, Harvard University No Taxation without Information Deterrence and Self-Enforcement in the Value Added Tax
11:50 am	Break
12:10 pm	Brian Knight, Brown University and NBER State Gun Policy and Cross-State Externalities: Evidence from Crime Gun Tracing
1:00 pm	Lunch and Adjourn
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