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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2015 Public Economics, Taxation & Social Insurance

Raj Chetty, David Card, and Ilyana Kuziemko, Organizers

July 21, 2015

Skyline Rooms
Royal Sonesta Hotel
40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Tuesday, July 21
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
	Morning Session Joint with Labor Studies
8:30 am	David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Andreas R. Kostol, University of Bergen Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago and NBER Disability Benefits, Consumption Insurance, and Household Labor Supply
9:20 am	Alexander M. Gelber, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Adam Isen, Department of the Treasury Jae Song, Social Security Administration The Effect of Social Security Benefits on Earnings: Novel Evidence from the Social Security Notch
10:10 am	Break
10:30 am	Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University Timothy McQuade, Stanford University Who Wants Affordable Housing in their Backyard? An Equilibrium Analysis of Low Income Property Development
11:20	Ricardo Perez-Truglia, Microsoft Ugo Troiano, University of Michigan and NBER Shaming Tax Delinquents: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in the United States
12:10 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University and NBER Xavier Gabaix, New York University and NBER Optimal Taxation with Behavioral Agents
1:45 pm	Break
2:00 pm	David W. Brown, Department of the Treasury Amanda E. Kowalski, Yale University and NBER Ithai Lurie, Department of the Treasury Medicaid as an Investment in Children: What is the Long-Term Impact on Tax Receipts?
2:45 pm	Jarkko Harju, VATT Institute for Economic Research Tuomas Kosonen, VATT Institute for Economic Research Oskar Nordstr��span> Skans, Uppsala University Firm Types and Heterogeneous Consumption-tax Incidence
3:30 pm	Break Session on Unemployment Insurance
3:45 pm	Kory Kroft, University of Toronto and NBER Johannes F. Schmieder, Boston University and NBER Etienne Lehmann, Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique Kavan J.. Kucko, Boston University Optimal Income Taxation with Unemployment and Wage Responses: A Sufficient Statistics Approach
4:25 pm	Nathaniel Hendren, Harvard University and NBER Private Information and Unemployment Insurance
5:05 pm	Adjourn