2nd Floor Conference Room
THURSDAY, APRIL 6:
9:30 AM Shuttle vans from the Royal Sonesta Hotel to 1050 Mass. Avenue.
9:45 AM Continental Breakfast
10:00 AM SETH GIERTZ, Congressional Budget Office
The Elasticity of Taxable Income During the 1990s: A Sensitivity Analysis
11:00 AM MONICA SINGHAL, Harvard University and NBER
ADAM LOONEY, Federal Reserve Board
The Effect of Anticipated Tax Changes on Intertemporal Labor Supply
and the Realization of Taxable Income
12:00 N BRUCE MEYER, University of Chicago and NBER
Identification and Estimation of Structural Models of Labor Supply
and Program Participation
(Joint with Bradley Heim)
1:00 PM Lunch
2:00 PM JOSEPH DOYLE, MIT and NBER
$2.00 Gas! Studying the Effect of Gas Tax Moratorium
(Joint with Krislert Samphantharak)
Discussant: ANDREW SAMWICK, Dartmouth College and NBER
3:10 PM DOUGLAS SHACKELFORD, University of North Carolina and NBER
Capital Gains Taxes and Asset Prices: Capitalization or Lock-in?
(Joint with Zhonglan Dai, Edward Maydew, and Harold Zhang)
Discussant: SCOTT WEISBENNER: University of Illinois and NBER
4:20 PM Break
4:40 PM ROBERT MOFFITT, John Hopkins University and NBER
Welfare Work Requirements with Paternalistic Government Preferences
Discussant: EMMANUEL SAEZ, UC, Berkeley and NBER
5:50 PM Adjourn
NBER Behavioral Responses to Taxation/Public Economics Program, Page 2:
6:15 PM Dinner
Harvard Faculty Club
20 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Dinner Speaker: N. GREGORY MANKIW, Harvard University and NBER
8:30 PM Shuttle vans from the Harvard Faculty Club to the Royal Sonesta Hotel.
9:00 PM Shuttle vans from the Harvard Faculty Club to the Royal Sonesta Hotel.
FRIDAY, APRIL 7:
7:45 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue
8:00 AM Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT and NBER
The Aggregate Effects of Health Insurance:
Evidence from the Introduction of Medicare
Discussant: JONATHAN SKINNER, Dartmouth College and NBER
9:40 AM RAJ CHETTY, UC, Berkeley and NBER
Why Do Unemployment Benefits Raise Unemployment Durations?
Moral Hazard vs. Liquidity
Discussant: MARK DUGGAN, University of Maryland and NBER
10:50 AM Break
11:10 AM STEPHEN COATE, Cornell University and NBER
A Dynamic Theory of Public Spending, Taxation, and Debt
(Joint with Marco Battaglini)
Discussant: ALEH TSYVINSKI, Harvard University and NBER
12:20 PM Lunch
1:15 PM PATRICK BAYER, Yale University and NBER
NATHANIEL KEOHANE, Yale University
Migration and Hedonic Valuation : The Case of Air Quality
(Joint with Chris Timmins)
Discussant: KENNETH CHAY, UC, Berkeley and NBER
2:30 PM Adjourn
3/9/06