NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Summer Institute 2001

August 2, 2001

Economics of Taxation

Austan Goolsbee, Organizer

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA 02138

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

THURSDAY, AUGUST 2:

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM JULIE BERRY CULLEN, University of Michigan and NBER

ROGER GORDON, University of California, San Diego and NBER

Taxes and Entrepreneurial Activity: Theory and Evidence from the U.S.

10:00 AM Break

10:30 AM AUSTAN GOOLSBEE, University of Chicago and NBER

The Value of Broadband and the Deadweight Cost of

Taxing New Technology

11:30 AM JOHN KARL SCHOLZ, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER

The EITC and Labor Market Participation of Families on Welfare

(Joint with JOE HOTZ and CHARLES MULLIN)

12:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM MELVIN STEPHENS, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

JENNIFER WARD-BATTS, University of Michigan

The Intra-Household Allocation of Assets: Evidence from the Separate

Taxation of Spouses in the UK

2:30 PM JON BAKIJA, Williams College

Distinguishing Transitory and Permanent Price Elasticities of Charitable Giving with Pre-Announced Changes in the Tax Law

3:30 PM Adjourn

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