NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Universities Research Conference

 

Behavioral Responses to Taxation and Social Insurance Programs

 

December 8-9, 2006

 

Raj Chetty and Emmanuel Saez, Organizers

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land, Blvd.

Cambridge, MA

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

 

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2006:

 

 9:00 am          Registration and Continental Breakfast

 

 9:20 am          ANTON KORINEK, Columbia University

                        JOSEPH STIGLITZ, Columbia University and NBER

                        Dividend Taxation and Intertemporal Tax Arbitrage

                       

                        Discussant:  JAMES POTERBA, MIT and NBER

 

10:30 am         Break

 

11:00 am         JOEL SLEMROD, University of Michigan and NBER

JOHN WILSON, Michigan State University

Tax Competition with Parasitic Tax Havens

 

                        Discussant: JAMES HINES, University of Michigan and NBER

 

12:10 pm         Lunch

 

 1:30 pm          GENE AMROMIN, Federal Reserve Board

JENNIFER HUANG, University of Texas at Austin

CLEMENS SIALM, University of Michigan and NBER

The Tradeoff between Mortgage Prepayments and Tax-Deferred Retirement Savings

 

                        Discussant:  BRIGITTE MADRIAN, Harvard University and NBER

 

 2:40 pm          Break

 

 3:10 pm          DANA GOLDMAN, RAND Corporation and NBER

NICOLE MAESTAS, RAND Corporation

Medical Expenditure Risk and Household Portfolio Choice

 

                        Discussant: AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT and NBER

 

 

 

 4:20 pm          JAMES ZILIAK, University of Kentucky

Taxes, Transfers, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers

 

                        Discussant: BRADLEY HEIM, Department of the Treasury

 

 5:30 pm          Adjourn

 

 6:00 pm          Group Dinner

                        Royal Sonesta Hotel

Dinner Speaker: ROGER GORDON, UC, San Diego and NBER

Taxation in Developing Economies

 

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2006:

 

 8:00 am          Continental Breakfast

 

 8:30 am          GARY ENGELHARDT, Syracuse University

ANIL KUMAR, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Employer Matching and 401(k) Saving: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

 

                        Discussant: JOHN KARL SCHOLZ, University of Wisconsin - Madison

 

 9:40 am          Break

 

10:10 am         ADAM LOONEY, Federal Reserve Board

Trading Tax Benefits for Child Support

 

                        Discussant: To Be Announced

 

11:20 am         DEAN KARLAN, Princeton University

JOHN LIST, University of Chicago and NBER

Does Price Matter in Charitable Giving?  Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment

 

                        Discussant: LISE VESTERLUND, University of Pittsburgh

 

12:30 pm         Adjourn

 

 

 

10/26/2006