STICERD | Events | Past IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar

Wednesday 29 May 2024 12:30 - 13:45

Greener on the Other Side: Inequity and Tax Compliance

Do perceptions of inequity in property tax liabilities lead to delinquency? Horizontal inequity in public policy generates resentment among citizens. We estimate the impact that inequity in the tax code has on voluntary ...Read more...

Michael Best (Columbia)

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IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Friday 17 May 2024 12:30 - 13:45

Earnings Instability

We analyze monthly earnings volatility using administrative payroll data. While it is well-documented that wages are largely stable, we find that this wage stability does not translate into earnings stability for most U....Read more...

Peter Ganong (University of Chicago)

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 08 May 2024 12:30 - 13:45

Firm Social Security Disability Reform and Implications for Employment

Beginning in 2010, the U.S. Social Security Administration began implementing a series of data-driven policy initiatives to improve the quality and consistency of disability case reviews performed by Administrative Law J...Read more...

Nicole Maestas (Harvard Medical School)

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IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 31 May 2023 12:30 - 13:45

Firm Accommodation and the Design of Social Insurance

This paper studies the labor market impacts of firm accommodation decisions in response to worker productivity shocks and assesses the role of firms in the design of social insurance programs. Our empirical context is wo...Read more...

Corina Mommaerts (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

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IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 17 May 2023 12:30 - 13:45

The Diffusion of Disruptive Technologies

We identify novel technologies using textual analysis of patents, job postings, and earnings calls. Our approach enables us to identify and document the diffusion of 29 disruptive technologies across firms and labor mark...Read more...

Nicholas Bloom (Stanford University and CEP, LSE)

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IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 03 May 2023 12:30 - 13:45

Do Youth Employment Programs Work? Evidence from the New Deal

We study the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) – the first and largest youth training program in the U.S. in operation between 1933 and 1942 – to provide the first comprehensive assessment of the short- and long-term eff...Read more...

Adriana Lleras-Muney (University of California, Los Angeles)

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IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 19 April 2023 12:30 - 13:45

What Do Insurers Do Differently Than One Another? Managed Competition and Value Added

Jonathan Kolstad (University of California, Berkeley)

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IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 22 March 2023 12:30 - 13:45

Home Price Expectations and Spending: Evidence From a Field Experiment

How do households adjust their spending behaviour in response to changes in home price expectations? We conduct a field experiment with a sample of Americans that links survey data on home price expectations to actual sp...Read more...

Christopher Roth (University of Warwick)

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IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 08 March 2023 12:30 - 13:45

Cash Transfers and the Local Economy: Evidence from Brazil

Cash transfer programs became ubiquitous in developing countries and have been credited for sizable reductions in poverty. However, their potential disincentive effects on labor supply have spurred a heated policy debate...Read more...

Joana Naritomi (Institute for Fiscal Studies and LSE)

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IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 30 November 2022 12:30 - 13:45

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Peter Levell (Institute for Fiscal Studies)

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IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 16 November 2022 12:30 - 13:45

Implementing Helicopter Money with Negative Interest Rates: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

In this paper, we estimate the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) in an experimentallocating monetary transfers at random to a sample representative of the population of French households. Our experiment provides 300 e...Read more...

Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

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IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 08 June 2022 12:30 - 13:30

Predicting Long-term Unemployment Risk

This paper uses rich administrative and survey data from Sweden to study the predictability and determinants of long-term unemployment (LTU) over the period 1992-2016. We use standard machine learning techniques to predi...Read more...

Johannes Spinnewijn (CEP, LSE), joint with Andreas Mueller

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IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 18 May 2022 12:30 - 13:30

Pregnancy Loss: Stress, Investment, and Subsequent Children

Pregnancy loss, which affects about 1 in 4 pregnancies, is often a traumatic, although unacknowledged, event which may alter prenatal stress and investments in subsequent pregnancies. Using Norwegian registry data, we ex...Read more...

Aline Bütikofer (Norwegian School of Economics)

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IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 04 May 2022 12:30 - 13:30

Targeting Precision Medicine: Evidence from Prenatal Screening

Technological advances in medicine increasingly offer opportunities to target care to patients identified through screening, raising questions of how broadly to screen for potential cases of disease. We explore this trad...Read more...

Petra Persson (Stanford University), joint with Peter Conner, Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, and Heidi Williams

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IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 16 March 2022 12:30 - 14:00

Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers

We study the results of a massive nationwide correspondence experiment sending more than 83,000 fictitious applications with randomized characteristics to geographically dispersed jobs posted by 108 of the largest U.S. e...Read more...

Evan Rose (University of Chicago), joint with Patrick M. Kline and Christopher R. Walters

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 08 December 2021 12:30 - 13:45

Capital Taxation and Entrepreneurship

Policymakers often want to encourage entrepreneurial activity. Commonly, they do this through preferential tax rates on business income, but these come with a substantial tax revenue cost. We develop a dynamic model of b...Read more...

Kate Smith (Institute for Fiscal Studies), joint with Helen Miller

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 17 November 2021 16:30 - 17:30

Where Does Wealth Come From?

Much attention has been given to rising wealth inequality in recent decades. However, understanding inequality requires an understanding of how wealth relates to the potential wealth an individual could accumulate and w...Read more...

Sandra Black (University of Texas at Austin), joint with Paul Devereux, Fanny Landaud, and Kjell Salvanes

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Wednesday 17 November 2021 16:30 - 17:30

Where Does Wealth Come From?

Much attention has been given to rising wealth inequality in recent decades. However, understanding inequality requires an understanding of how wealth relates to the potential wealth an individual could accumulate and w...Read more...

Sandra Black (University of Texas at Austin), joint with Paul Devereux, Fanny Landaud, and Kjell Salvanes

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Wednesday 03 November 2021 16:30 - 17:30

Racial inequality in the U.S. unemployment insurance

In the U.S., the rules commanding the rights to unemployment insurance (UI) are less generous in states with larger Black populations, which means that Black claimants systematically receive less UI than White claimants ...Read more...

Ioana Marinescu (University of Chicago), joint with Daphne Skandalis and Maxim Massenkoff

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Wednesday 03 November 2021 16:30 - 17:30

Racial inequality in the U.S. unemployment insurance

In the U.S., the rules commanding the rights to unemployment insurance (UI) are less generous in states with larger Black populations, which means that Black claimants systematically receive less UI than White claimants ...Read more...

Ioana Marinescu (University of Chicago), joint with Daphne Skandalis and Maxim Massenkoff

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Wednesday 27 October 2021 12:30 - 13:45

Firms, Informality and the Spatial Effects of Labor Market Shocks: Evidence from the Syrian Refugees in Turkey

This paper develops a new framework to analyse the effects of labor market shocks in developing economies and their distribution across space. It incorporates some of the key features of these countries, in particular th...Read more...

Gabriel Ulyssea (University of Oxford)

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 27 October 2021 12:30 - 13:45

Firms, Informality and the Spatial Effects of Labor Market Shocks: Evidence from the Syrian Refugees in Turkey

This paper develops a new framework to analyse the effects of labor market shocks in developing economies and their distribution across space. It incorporates some of the key features of these countries, in particular th...Read more...

Gabriel Ulyssea (University of Oxford)

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 23 June 2021 16:30 - 17:30

Structural transformation and U-shaped female employment

We build a consistent measure of female employment for the US over the last one hundred and fifty years -- encompassing intensive and extensive margins -- combining data from the US population Census and several early st...Read more...

Barbara Petrongolo (CEP), joint with Rachel Ngai and Claudia Olivetti

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Wednesday 16 June 2021 16:30 - 17:30

Price Theory for Incomplete Markets

In this paper, we derive formulas expressing the elasticity of individual consumption to changes in current and future interest rates and income in incomplete market models. We generalize the existing price theory formul...Read more...

Alan Olivi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), joint with with Emmanuel Farhi and Ivan Werning

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Wednesday 19 May 2021 16:30 - 17:30

Tax knowledge and tax manipulation: A unifying model

Joel Slemrod (University of Michigan), joint with Ashley Craig

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Wednesday 05 May 2021 16:30 - 17:30

The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data

Michael Stepner (Harvard University), joint with Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Nathaniel Hendren, and the Opportunity Insights Team

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Wednesday 21 April 2021 16:30 - 17:30

Taxing high-powered entrepreneurship

Florian Scheuer (University of Zurich), joint with Eduardo Azevedo and Kent Smetters

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Wednesday 24 March 2021 16:30 - 17:30

Measuring employer-to-employer reallocation

We revisit measurement of Employer-to-Employer (EE) transitions, the main engine of labor market competition and employment reallocation, in the monthly Current Population Survey (CPS). We follow Fallick and Fleischman (...Read more...

Fabien Postel-Vinay (University College London)

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Wednesday 10 March 2021 16:30 - 17:30

What Are the Labor and Product Market Effects of Automation? New Evidence from France

We use comprehensive micro data in the French manufacturing sector between 1994 and 2015 to document the effects of automation technologies on employment, sales, prices, and the labor share. Causal effects are estimated ...Read more...

Xavier Jaravel (LSE), joint with Philippe Aghion, Celine Antonin, Simon Brunel

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Wednesday 24 February 2021 16:30 - 17:30

Retirement Consumption and Pension Design

This paper uses patterns in consumption from Swedish administrative data to evaluate the welfare costs of increasing incentives for later retirement. We find that increasing the steepness of the pension benefits profile,...Read more...

Camille Landais (LSE), joint with Jonas Kolsrud, Daniel Reck, and Johannes Spinnewijn

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Wednesday 02 December 2020 16:30 - 17:30

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Joana Naritomi (Institute for Fiscal Studies and LSE)

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Wednesday 18 November 2020 16:30 - 17:30

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Benjamin Schoefer (Harvard University)

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Wednesday 04 November 2020 16:30 - 17:30

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Michele Tertilt (University of Mannheim)

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Wednesday 04 November 2020 16:30 - 17:30

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Michele Tertilt (University of Mannheim)

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Wednesday 21 October 2020 16:30 - 17:30

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Ben Olken (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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Wednesday 07 October 2020 16:30 - 17:30

Program Recertification Costs: Evidence from SNAP

Participants in means-tested programs must periodically document eligibility through a recertification process. If all cases that fail recertification are ineligible, the exact timing of this process should be irrelevan...Read more...

Tatiana Homonoff (New York University), joint with Jason Somerville

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Wednesday 17 June 2020 16:30 - 17:15

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Bhash Mazumder (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)

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Wednesday 03 June 2020 16:30 - 17:30

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Florian Scheuer (University of Zurich)

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Wednesday 06 May 2020 16:30 - 17:30

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Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

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Wednesday 18 March 2020 16:30 - 17:30

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Tatiana Homonoff (New York University)

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Wednesday 04 March 2020 16:30 - 17:30

Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure?

Kaveh Majlesi (Lund University)

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Wednesday 27 November 2019 16:30 - 17:30

Does Eviction Cause Poverty? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Cook County, IL

John Eric Humphries (Yale University)

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Wednesday 26 June 2019 16:30 - 17:30

The careers and wages of women: labour supply, sorting and human capital accumulation

The gender pay gap remains high and has ceased to fall over the last decade. Past work has shown that it is closely linked to family formation, widening over the course of life with the arrival of children and the interm...Read more...

Monica Costa Dias (Institute for Fiscal Studies), joint with Agnes Norris Keiller and Fabien Postel-Vinay

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Wednesday 19 June 2019 16:30 - 17:30

Labor Demand, the Racial Wage Gap, and Investments in the Human Capital of the Next Generation: Evidence from WWII

Anna Aizer (Brown University), joint with Ryan Boone and Adriana Lleras-Muney

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Wednesday 05 June 2019 16:30 - 17:30

Anti Insurance: The Perverse Targeting of Health Insurance

Lee Lockwood (University of Virginia)

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Wednesday 29 May 2019 16:30 - 17:30

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Florian Scheuer (University of Zurich)

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Wednesday 15 May 2019 16:30 - 17:30

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Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato (Duke University)

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Wednesday 01 May 2019 16:30 - 17:30

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Dmitry Taubinsky (University of California, Berkeley)

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Wednesday 27 March 2019 16:30 - 17:30

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Sebastian Findeison (University of Mannheim)

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Wednesday 13 February 2019 16:30 - 17:30

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Andreas Fagereng (Statistic Norway)

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Wednesday 12 December 2018 16:30 - 17:30

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Daniel Reck (STICERD, LSE)

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Wednesday 28 November 2018 16:30 - 17:30

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Robert Moffitt (Johns Hopkins University)

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Wednesday 17 October 2018 16:30 - 17:30

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Maria Polyakova (Stanford University)

SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Wednesday 06 June 2018 16:30 - 17:30

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Lorenz Kueng (Northwestern University)

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Wednesday 23 May 2018 16:30 - 17:30

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Natalie Cox (Princeton University)

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Wednesday 16 May 2018 16:30 - 17:30

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Francois Maniquet (University College London)

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Wednesday 09 May 2018 16:30 - 17:30

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Jonathan Kolstad (University of California, Berkeley)

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Wednesday 25 April 2018 16:30 - 17:30

Tax Evasion and Inequality

Niels Johannesen (University of Copenhagen)

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Wednesday 07 March 2018 16:30 - 13:45

Who Is Screened Out? Application Costs and the Targeting of Disability Programs

We study the effect of application costs on the targeting of disability programs using the closings of Social Security Administration field offices, which provide assistance with filing disability applications. We find t...Read more...

Manasi Deshpande (University of Chicago), joint with Yue Li

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Wednesday 28 February 2018 16:30 - 13:45

Couples' and Singles' Savings After Retirement

Not only retired couples hold more assets than singles, but high-income couples grow their savings during most of their retirement period. Why are they saving so much? Do they expect high medical expenses, do they deeply...Read more...

Eric French (University College London), joint with Mariacristina De Nardi, John Bailey Jones and Rory McGee

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Wednesday 29 November 2017 16:30 - 13:45

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Youssef Benzarti (University of California, Los Angeles)

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Wednesday 15 November 2017 16:30 - 13:45

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Ingvild Almås (Norwegian School of Economics)

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Wednesday 01 November 2017 16:30 - 13:45

Unemployment insurance schemes and consumption: Evidence from Brazil

Joana Naritomi (Institute for Fiscal Studies and LSE)

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Wednesday 21 June 2017 16:30 - 13:45

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Patrick Kline (University of California, Berkeley)

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Wednesday 07 June 2017 16:30 - 13:45

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Magne Mogstad (University of Chicago)

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Wednesday 24 May 2017 16:30 - 13:45

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Matt Notowidigdo (Northwestern University)

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Wednesday 10 May 2017 16:30 - 13:45

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Gabriel Chodorow-Reich (Harvard University)

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Wednesday 26 April 2017 16:30 - 13:45

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Simon Jäger (Harvard University)

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Wednesday 22 March 2017 16:30 - 13:45

The effect of minimum wages on the total number of jobs: Evidence from the United States using a bunching estimator

Attila Lindner (University College London)

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Wednesday 14 December 2016 12:30 - 13:45

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Eric Zwick (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

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Wednesday 02 November 2016 12:30 - 13:45

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Andrea Weber (Vienna University of Economics & Business)

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Wednesday 19 October 2016 12:30 - 13:45

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Jerome Adda (Bocconi University)

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Thursday 13 October 2016 12:30 - 13:45

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Hilary Hoynes (University of California, Berkeley)

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Wednesday 05 October 2016 12:30 - 13:45

Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials (jointly authored with Nancy Cartwright)

Angus Deaton (Princeton University)

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Wednesday 01 June 2016 12:30 - 13:45

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Francois Gerard (Queen Mary University of London)

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Wednesday 18 May 2016 12:30 - 13:45

Knowledge of future job loss and implications for unemployment insurance

Nathaniel Hendren (Harvard University)

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Wednesday 04 May 2016 12:30 - 13:45

The Lifecycle of Inventors

John Van Reenen (LSE), joint with Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel and Neviana Petkova

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Wednesday 20 April 2016 12:30 - 13:45

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James Ziliak (University of Kentucky)

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Wednesday 16 March 2016 12:30 - 13:45

Do Banks Pass Through Credit Expansions to Consumers Who Want to Borrow?

Neale Mahoney (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

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Wednesday 02 March 2016 12:30 - 13:45

State Taxes and Spatial Misallocation

Owen Zidar (Princeton University)

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Wednesday 17 February 2016 12:30 - 13:45

Inheritance and Wealth Inequality

Arash Nekoei (Institute for International Economic Studies)

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Wednesday 27 January 2016 12:30 - 13:45

Evolving Choice Inconsistencies in Choice of Prescription Drug Insurance

Jon Gruber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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Wednesday 09 December 2015 12:30 - 13:45

Estimating Aggregate Human Capital Externalities

Using measures of Compulsory Schooling Laws as instruments for state average schooling, we find that one more year of average schooling leads to a 6-8% increase in individual wages. The effect is statistically significan...Read more...

Ananth Seshadri (University of Wisconsin–Madison), joint with Junjie Guo and Nicolas Roys

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Wednesday 11 November 2015 12:30 - 13:45

The Optimal Timing of Unemployment Benefits: Theory and Evidence from Sweden

Camille Landais (LSE), joint with Jonas Kolsrud, Peter Nilsson and Johannes Spinnewijn

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Wednesday 28 October 2015 12:30 - 13:45

Why have the Wages of Married Women Increased? Marital Sorting and Labor Supply of Couples

Zvi Eckstein (Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya)

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Wednesday 24 June 2015 12:30 - 13:45

Means-tested Social Assistance and Labor Market Informality

In this paper we study the effect of a generous income-tested anti-poverty program in Uruguay on recipients' labor supply. When labor market informality is widespread, as in many low and middle-income countries, individu...Read more...

Marco Manacorda (Queen Mary University of London and CEP)

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Wednesday 10 June 2015 12:30 - 13:45

Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors

Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard University), joint with Ufuk Akcigit and Salome Baslandze

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Monday 08 June 2015 12:30 - 13:45

Tax Farming Redux: Experimental Evidence on Performance Pay for Tax Collectors

Adnan Khan (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office), joint with Asim I. Khwaja Benjamin A. Olken

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Wednesday 27 May 2015 12:30 - 13:45

Contestability on the Non-profit Sector

Kimberley Scharf (University of Warwick)

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Wednesday 13 May 2015 12:30 - 13:45

Generalized Social Marginal Welfare Weights for Optimal Tax Theory

Emmanuel Saez (University of California at Berkeley), joint with Stefanie Stantcheva

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Wednesday 29 April 2015 12:30 - 13:45

The Implications of Heterogeneity for the Regulation of Energy-Consuming Durable Goods

Arthur Van Benthem (Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania), joint with M. Jacobsen, C. Knittel and J.Sallee

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Wednesday 11 March 2015 12:30 - 13:45

The Response of Drug Expenditure to Non-linear Contract Design: Evidence from Medicare Part D

Liran Einav (Stanford University)

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Wednesday 25 February 2015 12:30 - 13:45

What you know can't hurt you (for long): A field experiment on relative feedback performance information

Antonio Cabrales (University College London)

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Wednesday 10 December 2014 12:30 - 13:45

Random policies in federations

James Hines (University of Michigan and NBER)

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Wednesday 26 November 2014 12:30 - 13:45

Capital Tax Reform and the Real Economy: The Effects of the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut

Danny Yagan (University of California, Berkeley)

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Wednesday 29 October 2014 12:30 - 13:45

Wealth Inequality in the United States since 1913: Evidence from Capitalized Income Tax Data

Gabriel Zucman (LSE), joint with E. Saez (UC Berkeley)

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Wednesday 08 October 2014 12:30 - 13:45

Dodging the Taxman: Firm Misreporting and Limits to Tax Enforcement

Reducing tax evasion is a key priority for many governments, particularly in developing countries. A growing literature has argued that the use of third party information to verify taxpayer self-reports is critical for t...Read more...

Dina Pomeranz (University of Zurich), joint with Paul Carrillo and Monica Singhal

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Wednesday 25 June 2014 12:30 - 13:45

Long Run Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net

A growing economics literature establishes a causal link between in utero shocks and health and human capital in adulthood. Most studies rely on extreme negative shocks such as famine and pandemics. We are the first to e...Read more...

Hilary Hoynes (University of California, Berkeley)

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Wednesday 28 May 2014 12:30 - 13:45

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Dan Silverman (Arizona State University)

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Wednesday 14 May 2014 12:30 - 13:45

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Ilyana Kuziemko (Princeton University)

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Wednesday 30 April 2014 12:30 - 13:45

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Jonah Rockoff (Columbia Business School)

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Wednesday 19 March 2014 12:30 - 13:45

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Bernard Salanie (Columbia University)

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Wednesday 12 March 2014 12:30 - 13:45

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Adam Szeidl (Central European University)

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Wednesday 19 February 2014 12:30 - 13:45

A Positive Theory of Tax Reform

Ethan Ilzetzki (LSE)

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Wednesday 11 December 2013 12:30 - 13:45

The great reversal in the demand for skill and cognitive tasks

What explains the current low rate of employment in the US? While there has been substantial debate over this question in recent years, we believe that considerable added insight can be derived by focusing on changes in ...Read more...

David Green (University of British Columbia)

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Wednesday 27 November 2013 12:30 - 13:45

Ramsey Asset Taxation Under Asymmetric Information'

Nicola Pavoni (Bocconi University)

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Wednesday 30 October 2013 12:30 - 13:45

Consumer Responses to Fiscal Stimulus Policy and Households’ Cost of Liquidity

David Dreyer Lassen (University of Copenhagen)

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Wednesday 16 October 2013 12:30 - 13:45

A Theory of Income Taxation under Multidimensional Skill Heterogeneity

We develop a unifying framework for optimal income taxation in multi-sector economies with general patterns of externalities. Agents in this model are characterized by an N-dimensional skill vector corresponding to intri...Read more...

Florian Scheuer (University of Zurich), joint with Casey Rotschild

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Monday 17 June 2013 12:30 - 13:45

Do the Laws of Tax Incidence Hold? Point of Collection and the Pass-Through of State Diesel Taxes

Joel Slemrod (University of Michigan)

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Wednesday 12 June 2013 12:30 - 13:45

Gender identity and relative income within households

Marianne Bertrand (University of Chicago)

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Wednesday 29 May 2013 12:30 - 13:45

Diagnosis and Unnecessary Procedure Use: Evidence from C-Section

This paper provides a model of diagnostic skill as an element of provider quality that is separate from a doctor's skill in performing procedures. Unlike higher surgical skill, which leads to higher use of surgical proce...Read more...

Janet Currie (Princeton University)

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Wednesday 22 May 2013 12:30 - 13:45

Management of Bureaucrats and Public Service Delivery: Evidence from the Nigerian Civil Service

Imran Rasul (University College London and Institute for Fiscal Studies)

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Wednesday 01 May 2013 12:30 - 13:45

Family Welfare Cultures

Magne Mogstad (University of Chicago)

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Wednesday 13 March 2013 12:30 - 13:45

Active vs. Passive Decisions and Crowd-out in Retirement Savings: Evidence from Denmark

Soren Leth-Petersen (University of Copenhagen), joint with Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Torben Heien Nielsen and Tore Olsen

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Wednesday 06 March 2013 12:30 - 13:45

Female Labour Supply, Human Capital and Taxation

Richard Blundell (University College London and the Institute for Fiscal Studies), joint with Monica Costa-Dias, Jonathan Shaw and Costas Meghir

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Wednesday 14 November 2012 12:30 - 13:45

The Welfare Cost of Perceived Policy Uncertainty: Evidence from Social Security

Erzo F P Luttmer (Dartmouth College), joint with Andrew Samwick

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Wednesday 24 October 2012 12:30 - 13:45

Private Information and Insurance Rejections

Nathaniel Hendren (Harvard University)

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Wednesday 27 June 2012 12:30 - 13:45

Moral hazard and claims deterrence in private disability insurance

Mark Duggan (Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania), joint with David Autor and Jonathan Gruber

Conference Room, LRB 505, 5th Floor, Lionel Robbins Building, LSE, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

Wednesday 13 June 2012 12:30 - 13:45

The Hated Property Tax: Salience, Tax Rates, and Tax Revolts.

Caroline Hoxby (Stanford University), joint with Marika Cabral

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Wednesday 23 May 2012 12:30 - 13:45

Using differences in knowledge across neighborhoods to uncover the impact of the EITC on earnings

Emmanuel Saez (University of California at Berkeley), joint with Raj Chetty and John Friedman

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Wednesday 02 May 2012 12:30 - 13:45

Moral hazard in health insurance: How important is forward looking behavior

Amy Finkelstein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), joint with Aviva Aron-Dine, Liran Einav, and Mark Cullen

IFS, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Wednesday 14 March 2012 12:30 - 13:45

Social networks and dynamics of tax avoidance - evidence from a well-defined Norwegian tax shelter

Wojciech Kopczuk (Columbia University)

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Wednesday 07 March 2012 12:30 - 13:45

Title: Heterogeneity, Demand for Insurance and Adverse Selection

Johannes Spinnewijn (CEP, LSE)

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Wednesday 22 February 2012 12:30 - 13:45

'The Mirrlees Review and Public Economics in an Age of Austerity'.

Tony Atkinson (Nuffield College, Oxford)

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Wednesday 16 November 2011 12:30 - 13:45

Tax Notches in Pakistan: Tax Evasion, Real Responses, and Income Shifting

Henrik Kleven (Princeton University), joint with Mazhar Waseem

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Tuesday 08 November 2011 12:30 - 13:45

“Unemployment and Debt in the United States”

Peter Diamond (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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Wednesday 02 November 2011 12:30 - 13:45

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Michael Lovenheim (Cornell University)

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Wednesday 19 October 2011 12:30 - 13:45

THE LONG-TERM IMPACTS OF TEACHERS: TEACHER VALUE-ADDED AND STUDENT OUTCOMES IN ADULTHOOD

John Friedman (Brown University)

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Wednesday 05 October 2011 12:30 - 13:45

The effects of unemployment insurance over the business cycle: evidence from regression discontinuity estimates over twenty years

Till Von Wachter (Columbia University), joint with Johannes F. Schmieder, Boston University and IZA and Stefan Bender, Institute for Employment Research (IAB)

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Wednesday 15 June 2011 12:30 - 13:45

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Dennis Epple (Carnegie Mellon University)

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Wednesday 01 June 2011 12:30 - 13:45

Optimal Dynamic Taxes

Mike Golosov (Yale University), joint with Maxim Troshkin, (University of Minnesota and FRB Minneapolis) and Aleh Tsyvinski, (Yale and NES)

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Wednesday 25 May 2011 12:30 - 13:45

Optimal Unemployment Insurance over the Business Cycle

Camille Landais (LSE), joint with Pascal Michaillat (LSE), Emmanuel Saez (University of California at Berkeley)

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Wednesday 18 May 2011 12:30 - 13:45

TBA

Mark Duggan (Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania)

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Wednesday 04 May 2011 12:30 - 13:45

Insurance and taxation over the life cycle

Emmanuel Fahri (Harvard University), joint with Ivan Werning

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Monday 02 May 2011 12:30 - 13:45

TBA

Amy Finkelstein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), joint with Antoine Bozio (Paris School of Economics) and Guy Laroque (University College London) - speaker TBC

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Wednesday 09 March 2011 12:30 - 13:45

TBA

Botond Koszegi (Central European University)

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Wednesday 23 February 2011 12:30 - 13:45

Incentive Schemes for Local Government: Theory and Evidence from Comprensive Performance Assessment in England

Ben Lockwood (University of Warwick), joint with Francesco Porcelli

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Wednesday 09 February 2011 12:30 - 13:45

Policy Analysis with Incredible Certitude (a Leverhulme Lecture)

Charles Manski (Northwestern University)

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Wednesday 08 December 2010 12:30 - 13:45

TBA

Alexander Gelber (University of California, Berkeley)

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Wednesday 24 November 2010 12:30 - 13:45

Fiscal Zoning and Sales Taxes: Do Higher Sales Taxes Lead to More Retailing and Less Manufacturing?

Michelle White (University of California San Diego and visiting EOPP), joint with Daria Burnes, UC Irvine, David Neumark, UC Irvine, Public Policy Institute of California, and NBER, and Michelle J. White, UC San Diego and NBER

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Wednesday 03 November 2010 12:30 - 13:45

The Choice of the Personal Income Tax Base

Roger Gordon (University of California San Diego and visiting EOPP), joint with Wojciech Kopczuk, Columbia University

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Wednesday 27 October 2010 12:30 - 13:45

Digestible Microfoundations: Buffer Stock Saving in a Krusell-Smith World

Chris Carroll (Johns Hopkins University)

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Wednesday 13 October 2010 12:30 - 13:45

On the Long-Run Evolution of Inheritance: France 1820-2050

Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics)

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Monday 24 May 2010 12:30 - 13:45

Bounds on Elasticities with Optimization Frictions: A Synthesis of Micro and Macro Evidence on Labor Supply

Raj Chetty (Harvard University)

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Monday 10 May 2010 12:30 - 13:45

Sources of time preference and time-inconsistency: evidence from the field

Dan Silverman (Arizona State University)

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Monday 26 April 2010 12:30 - 13:45

Health and Wealth in a Lifecycle Model

John Karl Scholz (University of Wisconsin–Madison), joint with Ananth Seshadri (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

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Monday 15 March 2010 12:30 - 13:45

TBC

Matt Weinzierl (Harvard Business School)

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Monday 01 March 2010 12:30 - 13:45

Polish Business Flat Tax and its Effect on Reported Incomes

Wojciech Kopczuk (Columbia University)

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Monday 22 February 2010 12:30 - 13:45

Consumption and Cash-Flow Taxes in an International Setting

Alan Auerbach (University of California, Berkeley), joint with Michael P. Devereux (Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation)

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Monday 15 February 2010 12:30 - 13:45

Optimal Control of Externalities in the Presence of Income Taxation

Louis Kaplow (Harvard Law School)

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Monday 14 December 2009 12:30 - 13:45

Quality, inequality, and the measurement of world poverty

Angus Deaton (Princeton University)

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Monday 07 December 2009 12:30 - 13:45

Individual Accounts And The Life-Cycle Approach To Social Insurance

Peter Sorensen (University of Copenhagen), joint with A. Lans Bovenberg (CentER, Tilburg University, Netspar, CEPR and CESifo) and Martin Ino Hansen (Statistics Denmark)

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Monday 30 November 2009 12:30 - 13:45

Why Can Modern Governments Tax So Much? An Agency Model Of Firms As Fiscal Intermediaries

Claus Kreiner (University of Copenhagen), joint with Henrik Kleven and Emmanuel Saez

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Monday 19 October 2009 12:30 - 13:45

Do Child Tax Benefits Affect the Wellbeing of Children? Evidence from Canadian Child Benefit Expansions

Kevin Milligan (University of British Columbia), joint with Mark Stabile

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