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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2013

 

Public Economics: Taxation and Social Insurance

 

David Card, Raj Chetty and Amy Finkelstein, Co-Organizers

 

July 23, 2013

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Skyline DE Meeting Room

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

  

TUESDAY, JULY 23:

 

 

MORNING SESSION JOINT WITH LABOR STUDIES

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries


8:30 am


Petra Persson, Columbia University
Social Insurance and the Marriage Market


9:20 am


Nate Hilger, Harvard University
How Does Family Income Affect College Enrollment? Evidence From Timing of Parental Layoffs

10:10 am

Break


10:30 am


Dayanand Manoli, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Nick Turner, US Treasury
The EITC Goes to College: Evidence Based on Income Tax Data and Policy Nonlinearities

11:20 am

Alex Solis, Uppsala University
Credit Access and College Enrollment

12:10 pm

Lunch

1:20 pm

Emmanuel Saez, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Stefanie Stantcheva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Generalized Social Marginal Welfare Weights for Optimal Tax Theory

2:10 pm

Camille Landais, London School of Economics
Assessing the Welfare Effects of Unemployment Benefits Using the Regression Kink Design

Bruce Meyer, University of Chicago and NBER
Wallace K.C. Mok, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Disability, Earnings, Income and Consumption

3:10 pm

Break

3:25 pm

Owen Zidar, University of California at Berkeley
Tax Cuts For Whom? Heterogeneous Effects of Income Tax Changes on Growth and Employment

4:15 pm

Vivi Alatas, The World Bank
Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Rema Hanna, Harvard University
Benjamin A. Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Matthew Wai-Poi, The World Bank
Ordeal Mechanisms in Targeting: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

5:05 pm

Adjourn