PUBLIC FINANCE SEMINAR

Please note Informal Public Finance Lunch Seminar Schedule
SPRING SEMESTER 2007

Instructor: Raj Chetty

Office: 521 Evans Hall


E-mail:
Room:
608-7 Evans Hall
Time:
Monday 2-4PM
January 29 Amy Finkelstein, MIT
"EZ-Tax: Tax Salience and Tax Rates"
February 5 Mark Duggan, University of Maryland
  1. "Distinguishing Income from Substitution Effects in Disability Insurance"
  2. "Federal Policy and the Rise in Disability Enrollment: Evidence for the VA's Disability Compensation Program"
*February 14 David Card, UC Berkeley
Department Seminar, 4-6 PM
*February 21 David S. Lee, UC Berkeley and Columbia University
Department Seminar, 4-6 PM
February 26 Richard Rogerson, Arizona State University
Long-Term Changes in Labor Supply and Taxes: Evidence from OECD Countries, 1956-2004
*March 8 Joe Gyourko, University of Pennsylvania
(joint with Labor Seminar)
*March 14 Alberto Alesina, Harvard University
Department Seminar, 4-6 PM

*March 21 George A. Akerlof, UC Berkeley
Department Seminar, 4-6 PM
March 26 Spring Break
*April 4 Antonio Rangel, Cal Tech
Department Seminar, 4-6 PM
*April 10 Ulrike Malmendier, UC Berkeley (joint with Psychology and Economics Seminar)

April 16 Emmanuel Saez, UC Berkeley, (joint with Theory Seminar)
The Optimal Income Taxation of Couples
*April 18 Botond Koszegi, UC Berkeley
Department Semianr, 4-6 PM

April 23 Brigitte Madrian, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, (joint with Psychology and Economics Seminar)
  1. "Reducing the Complexity Costs of 401(k) Participation Through Quick Enrollment"
  2. "Simplification and Saving"
April 30 Justin Marion, UC Santa Cruz
Measuring Illegal Activity and the Effects of Regulatory Innovation: A Study of Diesal Fuel Tax Evasion
May 7 Doug Bernheim, Stanford University
Beyond Revealed Preference: Choice-Theoretic Foundations for Behavioral Welfare Analysis.

Informal Public Finance Lunch Seminar, 639 Evans Hall, 12-2 pm

February 12 David Card, UC Berkeley
Room 608-7 Evans Hall
School Competition with Publicly-Funded Catholic Schools: Evidence on Student Mobility and Achievement
March 5 Uri Simonsohn, Wharton University of Pennsylvania and UC Berkeley

March 12 Jerome Adda, London School of Economics and UC Berkeley
The Effect of Bans and Taxes on Passive Smoking
March 19 David Albouy and Kevin Stange, UC Berkeley
Partisan Representation in Congress and the Geographic Distribution of Federal Funds
*May 14 Day Manoli and Marit Rehavi, UC Berkeley
  1. "Understanding Retirement Decisions and Evaluating Social-Security Reforms"
  2. coauthor, Mathis Wagner
  3. "When Women Hold the Purse Strings: the effects of female legislators on state spending priorities, 1975-2000"
Please Note: Lunch seminar will meet in Room 597 Evans.
*Please note different day, room and/or time.

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