PUBLIC ECONOMICS PROGRAM MEETING (Mark Duggan and Amy Finkelstein, Organizers)
2nd Floor Conference Room
THURSDAY, APRIL 5:
9:45 AM Shuttle vans from the Royal Sonesta Hotel to 1050 Mass. Avenue.
10:00AM Continental Breakfast
Behavioral Response to Taxation Meeting:
10:15 AM NICHOLAS BULL, Joint Committe on Taxation
Long-Run Tax Rates and Long-Run Growth
(Joint with Timothy Dowd)
11:00 AM PAMELA MOOMAU, Joint Committee on Taxation
Macroeconomic Analysis of a Proposal to Broaden the Individual Income Tax
Based and to Lower Individual Income Tax Rates
11:45 AM Break
12:00 N GERALD AUTEN and DAVID JOULFAIAN, U. S. Treasury Department
Behavioral Responses of High Income Individuals to Taxes
1:00 PM Lunch
Public Economics Program Meeting:
2:00 PM RAJ CHETTY, UC, Berkeley and NBER
Salience and Taxation: Evidence from a Field Experiment
(Joint with Kory Kroft and Adam Looney)
Discussant: ERZO LUTTMER, Harvard University and NBER
3:10 PM AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT and NBER
E-Z Tax: Tax Salience and Tax Rates
Discussant: To Be Announced
4:20 PM Break
NBER Public Economics Program Meeting, Page 2:
4:40 PM EMMANUEL SAEZ, UC, Berkeley and NBER
The Optimal Income Taxation of Couples
(Joint with Henrik Kleven and Claus Kreiner)
Discussant: NADA EISSA, Georgetown University and NBER
6:15 PM Dinner
Harvard Faculty Club
20 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Dinner Speaker: PETER ORSZAG, Congressional Budget Office
8:30 PM Shuttle vans from the Harvard Faculty Club to the Royal Sonesta Hotel.
8:45 PM Shuttle vans from the Harvard Faculty Club to the Royal Sonesta Hotel.
FRIDAY, APRIL 6:
7:45 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue
8:00 AM Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM MARIACRISTINA DE NARDI, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and NBER
Differential Mortality, Uncertain Medical Expenses, and the Saving of Elderly Singles
(Joint with Eric French and John Bailey Jones)
Discussant: KARL SCHOLZ, University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER
9:40 AM DAN SILVERMAN, University of Michigan and NBER
Consumption, Retirement, and Social Security: Evaluating the
Efficiency of Reform that Encourages Longer Careers
(Joint with John Laitner)
Discussant: JEFFREY LIEBMAN, Havard University and NBER
10:50 AM Break
11:20 AM IVAN WERNING, MIT and NBER
Pareto Efficient Income Taxation
Discussant: WOJCIECH KOPCZUK, Columbia University and NBER
12:20 PM Lunch
1:20 PM MICHAEL GREENSTONE, MIT and NBER
Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from
Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the U.S.
(Joint with Olivier Deschenes)
Discussant: ROBERT MENDELSOHN, Yale University
2:30 PM Adjourn 2/28/07