NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2007

Economics of Taxation

Austan Goolsbee, Organizer

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

July 26, 2007

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25:
6:00 pm	Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
THURSDAY, JULY 26:
	Coffee and Pastries are available before the meeting
11:00 am	DAVID ALBOUY, UC, Berkeley
	The Unequal Geographic Burden of Federal Taxation and Its Consequences: A Case for Tax Deductions?
12:00 noon	AUSTAN GOOLSBEE, University of Chicago and NBER
	DANIEL FEENBERG, NBER
	Discussion of AEA Committee on Statistics Report on Data Needs in Public Finance
12:20 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	ZHONGLAN DAI, University of Texas at Dallas
	DOUGLAS SHACKELFORD, University of North Carolina and NBER
	HAROLD ZHANG, University of Texas at Dallas
	Capital Gains Taxes and Stock Return Volatility
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	ALBERTO ALESINA, Harvard University and NBER
	ANDREA ICHINO, University of Bologna
	Gender based taxation
3:30 pm	N. GREGORY MANKIW, Harvard University and NBER
	MATTHEW WEINZIERL, Harvard University
	The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution
4:30 pm	Adjourn
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