THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1:

12:00 N Lunch

1:00 PM J. KARL SCHOLZ, University of Wisconsin and NBER

Do Estate and Gift Taxes Affect the Timing of Private Transfers?

(Joint with Doug Bernheim and Robert Lemke)

Discussant: KATHLEEN MCGARRY, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

2:15 PM Break

2: 45 PM CAROLINE HOXBY, Harvard University and NBER

Political Jurisdictions in Heterogeneous Communities

(Joint with Alberto Alesina and Reza Baqir)

Discussant: THOMAS NECHYBA, Duke University and NBER

4:00 PM DARIUS LAKDAWALLA, RAND Corporation and NBER

The Declining Quality of Teachers

Discussant: MARK DUGGAN, University of Chicago and NBER

5:15 PM Adjourn

5:30 PM Shuttle Van Leaves from 1050 Mass Ave to Royal Sonesta Hotel.

5:45 PM Shuttle Van Leaves from 1050 Mass Ave to Royal Sonesta Hotel.

6:00 PM Dinner

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA 02142

Dinner Speaker: KENNETH FROOT, Harvard University and NBER

Government Intervention in Insurance Markets

Over Please!

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2:

7:45 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue

8:00 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue

8:00 AM Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER

A Theory of Government Regulation of Addictive Bads:

Optimal Tax Levels and Tax Incidence for Cigarette Excise Taxation

(Joint with Botond Koszegi)

Discussant: DAVID LAIBSON, Harvard University and NBER

9:45 AM RAYMOND FISMAN, Columbia University

"Tax Rate amd Tax Evasopm: Evidence from the "Missing Imports" in China

(Joint wit Shang-Jin Wei)

Discussant: JAMES HINES, University of Michigan and NBER

11:00 AM Break

11:30 AM BRUCE MEYER, Northwestern University and NBER

Structural Labor Supply Models when Budget Constraints are Nonlinear

(Joint with Brad Heim)

and

Work Costs and Nonconvex Preferences in the Estimation of

Labor Supply Models

(Joint with Brad Heim)

Discussant: JERRY HAUSMAN, MIT and NBER

12:45 PM Lunch

1:30 PM EMMANUEL SAEZ, Harvard University and NBER

Optimal Progressive Capital Income Taxes in the Infinite Horizon Model

Discussant: KENNETH JUDD, Stanford University and NBER

2:45 PM Adjourn

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