NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Tax Policy and the Economy

 

James Poterba, Organizer

 

September 14, 2006

 

L’Enfant Plaza Hotel

480 L’Enfant Plaza, SW

Washington, DC

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

 8:00 am          Registration and Continental Breakfast

 

 8:30 am          AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT and NBER

Medicaid, Nursing Home Care, and the Crowd-Out

of Private Long-Term Care Insurance

(Joint with JEFFREY BROWN)

 

MARTIN FELDSTEIN, Harvard University and NBER

Unemployment Insurance Saving Accounts

(Joint with DANIEL ALTMAN)

 

 9:45 am          Break

 

10:15 am         DANIEL KESSLAR, Stanford University and NBER

Budgetary Effects of Reforming the Tax Treatment of Employer-Provided Health Insurance

                   (Joint with JOHN COGAN and R. GLENN HUBBARD)

                                                                       

LAURENCE KOTLIKOFF, Boston University and NBER

                        Calculating Total Effective Marginal U.S. Tax Rates on Working and Saving                     

                        (Joint with DAVID RAPSON)

 

11:30 am         Break

 

11:45 am         GILBERT METCALF, Tufts University and NBER

                        Tax Policy and Energy Demand

 

12:45 pm         Lunch

 

Luncheon Speaker:

EDWARD LAZEAR, Council of Economic Advisors

 

  2:00 pm         Adjourn                                   

           

 

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