2nd Floor Conference Room
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27:
2:00 PM Refreshments
2:30 PM ALAN AUERBACH, UC, Berkeley and NBER
Budget Windows, Sunsets and Fiscal Control
3:30 PM Break
3:45 PM KEVIN MILLIGAN, University of British Columbia and NBER
Incentive Effects of Social Assistance: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
(Joint with Thomas Lemieux)
4:45 PM Break
5:00 PM JEFFREY LIEBMAN, Harvard University and NBER
Savings Incentives for Low-and Middle- Income Families:
Evidence from a Field Experiment with H&R Block
(Joint with Esther Duflo, William Gale, Peter Orszag, and Emmanuel Saez)
6:00 PM Adjourn
6:30 PM Dinner
Harvard Faculty Club
20 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA
Dinner Speaker: JAMES POTERBA, ROSANNE ALTSHULER,
BILL GENTRY and JON BAKIJA
On the Work of the Tax Panel
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.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28:
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
PUBLIC ECONOMICS MEETING PROGRAM, PAGE 2:
8:30 AM FRANCINE BLAU and LAWRENCE KAHN, Cornell University and NBER
Changes in the Labor Supply Behavior of Married Women: 1980-2000
9:30 AM Break
9:45 AM MICHAEL GOLOSOV, MIT and NBER
Markets Versus Governments: Political Economy of Mechanisms
(Joint with Daron Acemoglu and Aleh Tsyvinski)
10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM HANMING FANG, Yale University and NBER
Eat, Drink, Firms and Government: An Investigation of Corruption from Entertainment
and Travel Costs of Chinese Firms
(Joint with Hongbin Cai and Lixin Xu)
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM WEI LI, University of Virginia
Tax Structures in Developing Countries: Puzzle and Possible Explanations
(Joint with Roger Gordon)
2:00 PM Break
2:15 PM SUSAN DYNARSKI, Harvard University and NBER
Building the Stock of College-Educated Labor
3:15 PM Adjourn
9/22/05