THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30:

2:30 PM Refreshments

3:00 PM ARIK LEVINSON, Georgetown University and NBER

Labor Supply and Participation Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit:

Evidence from the National Survey of American's Families and Wisconsin's

Supplemental Benefit for Families with Three Children

(Joint with Maria Cancian)

Discussant: J. KARL SCHOLZ, University of Wisconsin and NBER

4:10 PM Break

4:30 PM ANTONIO RANGEL, Stanford University and NBER

DOUGLAS BERNHEIM, Stanford University and NBER

Emotions, Cognition, and Savings: Theory and Policy

Discussant: SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN, MIT and NBER

5:45 PM Discussion- WILLIAM NORDHAUS, Yale University and NBER

6:15 PM Dinner

Harvard Faculty Club

20 Quincy Street

Cambridge, MA

Dinner Speaker: MICHAEL DEVEREUX, University of Warwick

Recent Reforms in Capital Income Taxation:

The U.K. Experience

9:00 PM Shuttle Van Departs Harvard Faculty Club for the Royal Sonesta Hotel.

9:15 PM Shuttle Van Departs Harvard Faculty Club for the Royal Sonesta Hotel.

Over, Please!

Public Economics Program Meeting, Page 2:

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31:

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 ZORAN IVKOVIC,University of Illinois

JAMES POTERBA, MIT and NBER

SCOTT WEISBENNER, University of Illinois and NBER

Tax-Motivated Trading By Individual Investors

Discussant: ALEH TSYVINSKY, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

9:40 AM CHRISTOPHER HOUSE, University of Michigan

MATTHEW SHAPIRO, University of Michigan and NBER

Phased In Tax Cuts and Economic Activity

Discussant: ALAN AUERBACH, UC, Berkeley and NBER

10:50 AM Break

11:10 AM EMMANUEL SAEZ, UC, Berkeley and NBER

HENRIK KLEVEN and CLAUS KREINER, University of Copenhagen

(Joint with Herwig Immervoll)

Welfare Reform in European Countries: A Micro-Simulated Analysis

Discussant: JORN-STEFFEN PISCHKE, London School of Economics and NBER

12:20 PM Lunch

Lunch Discussion: BERNARD WOLFMAN, Harvard Law School

General Utilities: Retrospective and Perspective

1:50 PM KENT SMETTERS University of Pennsylvania and NBER

Consumption Taxes and Economic Efficiency in a

Stochastic OLG Economy

(Joint with Shinichi Nishiyama)

Discussant: KENNETH JUDD, Stanford University and NBER

3:00 PM Adjourn

10/30/03