NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Tax Policy and the Economy

James Poterba, Organizer

September 14, 2006

L’Enfant Plaza Hotel

Rooms Monet 1 and 2

480 L’Enfant Plaza, SW

Washington, DC

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

8:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 am AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT and NBER

Medicaid Crowd-Out of Private Long-Term Care Insurance Demand:

Evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey

(Joint with JEFFREY BROWN and NORMA COE)

MARTIN FELDSTEIN, Harvard University and NBER

Unemployment Insurance Saving Accounts

(Joint with DANIEL ALTMAN)

9:45 am Break

10:15 am DANIEL KESSLER, Stanford University and NBER

Evaluating Effects of Tax Preferences on Health Care Spending

and the Budget

(Joint with JOHN COGAN and R. GLENN HUBBARD)

LAURENCE KOTLIKOFF, Boston University and NBER

Does It Pay, at the Margin, to Work and Save? -- Measuring Effective Marginal Taxes on Americans’ Labor Supply and Saving

(Joint with DAVID RAPSON)

11:30 am Break

11:45 am GILBERT METCALF, Tufts University and NBER

Federal Tax Policy Towards Energy

12:45 pm Lunch

Luncheon Speaker:

EDWARD LAZEAR, Council of Economic Advisors

2:00 pm Adjourn

9/1/06