NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2000

Public Economics

Mini Program Meeting

David Cutler, Organizer

July 31, 2000

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

MONDAY, JULY 31:

8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts

9:00 AM ANN DRYDEN WITTE, Wellesley College and NBER

Child Care and the Welfare to Work Transition

(Joint with ROBERT J. LEMKE, MAGALY QUERALT, and ROBERT WITT)

10:00 AM Break

10:15 AM CASEY B. MULLIGAN and TOMAS J. PHILIPSON,

University of Chicago and NBER

Merit Motives and Government Intervention: Public Finance in Reverse

11:15 AM LOUIS KAPLOW, Harvard University and NBER

Any Non-Welfarist Method of Policy Assessment Violates the Pareto Principle

12:15 PM Lunch

1:15 PM WILLIAM M. GENTRY, Columbia University and NBER

Are Dividend Taxes Capitalized Into Share Prices? Evidence from Real Estate Investment Trusts

(Joint with DEEN KEMSLEY and CHRISTOPHER J. MAYER)

2:15 PM Break

2:30 PM DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN, Syracuse University and NBER

DAVID JOUFAIAN, Department of the Treasury

HARVEY S. ROSEN, Princeton University and NBER

Estimating the Income Effect on Retirement

3:30 PM Adjourn

5/11/00