NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.



BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE TO TAXATION/PUBLIC ECONOMICS PROGRAM MEETING

James Poterba, Organizer



April 6-7, 2006

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts



PROGRAM



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