2nd Floor Conference Room
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28:
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM CHRISTOPHER MAYER, Columbia University and NBER
Why Do Households Without Children Support Local Public Schools?
Linking House Price Capitalization to School Spending
(Joint with Christian Hilber)
Discussant: MICHAEL GREENSTONE, MIT and NBER
2:15 PM Break
2:45 PM NADA EISSA, Georgetown University and NBER
HENRIK KLEVEN and CLAUS KREINER,University of Copenhagen
Evaluation of Four Tax Reforms in the United States:
Labor Supply and Welfare Effects on Single Mothers
Discussant: LEORA FRIEDBERG, University of Virginia and NBER
4:00 PM Break
4:15 PM ROBERTON WILLIAMS, University of Texas and NBER
An Estimate of the Optimal Second-Best Gasoline Tax
Considering Both Efficiency and Equity
Discussant: GILBERT METCALF, Tufts University and NBER
5:45 PM Adjourn
6:15 PM Dinner
Harvard Faculty Club
20 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA
Dinner Speaker: SOREN BLOMQUIST, Uppsala University
Swedish Data Sets and Public Finance Research
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!
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29:
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 MIHIR DESAI, Harvard University and NBER
DHAMMIKA DHARMAPALA, University of Connecticut
Corporate Tax Avoidance and High Powered Incentives
Discussant: MARK LANG, University of North Carolina
9:45 AM LOUIS KAPLOW, Harvard University and NBER
On the Undesirability of Commodity Taxation Even When Income
Taxation is Not Optimal
Discussant: JAMES HINES, University of Michigan and NBER
11:00 AM Break
11:30 AM JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER
GARY ENGELHARDT, Syracuse University
Social Security and the Evolution of Elderly Poverty
Discussant: ANDREW SAMWICK, Dartmouth College and NBER
12:45 PM Lunch
1:30 PM KATHERINE BAICKER, Dartmouth College and NBER
Fiscal Shenanigans, Targeted Federal Health Care Funds, and Patient Mortality
(Joint with Douglas Staiger)
Discussant: MARK DUGGAN, University of Maryland and NBER
2:45 PM Adjourn
10/27/04