ECONOMICS 231

PUBLIC FINANCE SEMINAR
Spring 2006
Organizer: EMMANUEL SAEZ

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Seminar Room: 608-7 Evans Hall
Schedule: Monday 2-4 pm
January 30 Wojciech Kopczuk , Columbia University
  "Electronic Filing, Tax Preparers and Participation in the Earned Income Tax Credit"
February 8* Orley Ashenfelter , Princeton University
  TBA
(joint with Departmental Seminar, 4-5:30 pm, 608-7 Evans)
February 16* Marianne Bitler , Public Policy Institute of California
  "Distributional Impacts of the Self-Sufficiency Project"
(joint with Labor Seminar, 2-3:30 pm, 608-7 Evans)
February 22* Francois Bouguignon , World Bank
  "TBA"
(joint with Departmental Seminar, 4-5:30 pm, 608-7 Evans)
February 27 Robert Shimer , University of Chicago
  "Reservation Wages and Unemployment Insurance"
March 8* Richard Thaler , University of Chicago
  "TBA"
(joint with Departmental Seminar, 2-3:30 pm, 608-7 Evans)
March 13 Michael Greenstone , MIT (Visiting Berkeley)
  "Does Hazardous Waste Matter? Evidence from the Housing Market and the Superfund Program"
March 15* Austan Goolsbee , University of Chicago
  "TBA"
(joint with Departmental Seminar,4-5:30 pm, 608-7 Evans)
March 22* Chang-Tai Hsieh and
Enrico Moretti
,
University of California, Berkeley
  TBA
(joint with Departmental Seminar,4-5:30 pm, 608-7 Evans)
April 3 Bryan Graham , University of California, Berkeley
  "The Econometrics of Social Interactions"
April 10 Adam Looney , Federal Reserve Board
  "The Effect of Anticipated Tax Changes on Intertemporal Labor Supply and the Realization of Taxable Income"
April 20* David Autor , MIT
  "Do Temporary Help Jobs Improve Labor Market Outcomes for Low-Skilled Workers? Evidence form Random Assignments"
(joint with Labor Seminar, 2-3:30 pm, 608-7 Evans)
April 24 Canceled
 
May 1* Esther Duflo , MIT
  "Understanding Technology Adoption: Fertilizer in Western Kenya" Evidence from Field Experiments
(joint with Development Seminar, 4-5:30 pm, 608-7 Evans)
May 8 Yooki Park , UC Berkeley
Student Presentation
  "Multi-Stage Research Procurement"
 
 
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