Dear Program Members -
With the end of term and the holiday season upon us, you may want to
mark several dates in 2008 when there will be important Public Economics
program activity.
April 3-4: Program Meeting at Cambridge NBER. Jeff Brown and Scott
Weisbenner with be co-organizers; papers that you would like considered
for the meeting will need to be submitted by early February
July 21-23: Summer Institute at Hotel Sonesta in Cambridge. We will
begin on Monday afternoon July 21 with a general public economics
session -- I will organize that session, and it will be designed to
capture papers that don't fit into other Summer Institute workshops.
There will be a number of specialized workshops:
July 22: Social Insurance (joint with Labor Studies) organized
by Kate Baicker and Raj Chetty
July 22-23: Real Estate / Local Public Finance organized by
Todd Sinai and Joe Gyourko
July 23: Social Security (joint with Aging): organized by Jeff
Liebman and Andrew Samwick
The PE meetings will overlap in whole or part with EEE (Environmental &
Energy Economics), ED (Education), LS (Labor Studies), AW (Aging), and
CH (Children).
Last year the NBER experimented with inviting graduate students to
participate in the Summer Institute meeting. Students must be nominated
by an NBER affiliate, and they must pay their own way (travel and hotel)
to attend the meetings. In spite of the expense, there was substantial
student involvement last summer -- if you have a student you would like
to nominate for this year, please let me know.
September 25: Tax Policy and the Economy (Washington). I still have
several openings for this meeting -- if you have a paper that you would
like to present (remember the conference proceedings are published so
the paper cannot be committed to another outlet) please let me know.
There is a limit on the number of students per program, but last year
the constraint was not binding.
November 6-7: Program Meeting in Palo Alto. Raj Chetty and Emmanuel
Saez will be organizers. Papers for consideration will need to be
submitted by late September.
All best wishes for the holiday season. I look forward to seeing you in
New Orleans or at a future NBER meeting.
Jim
Received on Sat Dec 08 2007 - 16:24:03 EST
