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 Committee on Taxation
(Joint with Timothy Dowd)
11:00 AM PAMELA MOOMAU, Joint Committee on Taxation
(Joint with the Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation)
and
Macroeconomic Analysis of A Proposal to Broaden the Individual Income Tax Base
and Lower Individual Income Tax Rates
(Joint with the Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation)
11:45 AM Break
12:00 N CRAIG JOHNSON and DAVID JOULFAIAN, U. S. Treasury Department
A Dynamic Analysis of Permanent Extension of the President's Tax Relief
1:00 PM Lunch
Public Economics Program Meeting:
2:00 PM RAJ CHETTY, UC, Berkeley and NBER
(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: AUSTAN GOOLSBEE, University of Chicago and NBER
4:20 PM Break
Over, Please!
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
JOHN BAILEY JONES, State University of New York, Albany
Differential Mortality, Uncertain Medical Expenses, and the Saving of Elderly Singles
(Joint with Eric French)
Discussant: JOHN 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
3/23/07