Publication: NBER Reporter
Publication Date: 22-DEC-06
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
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Article Excerpt
An NBER-Universities Research Conference on "Behavioral Responses to Taxation and Social Insurance Programs" took place in Cambridge on December 8-9. Organizers Raj Chetty and Emmanuel Saez, both of NBER and University of California, Berkeley, chose these papers for discussion:
Anton Korinek, Columbia University, and Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University and NBER, "Dividend Taxation and Intertemporal Tax Arbitrage"
Discussant: James M. Poterba, MIT and NBER
John D. Wilson, Michigan State University, and Joel B. Slemrod, University of Michigan and NBER, "Tax Competition with Parasitic Tax Havens"
Discussant: James R. Hines, University of Michigan and NBER
Jennifer Huang, University of Texas at Austin; Gene Amromin, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; and Clemens Sialm, University of Michigan and NBER, "The Tradeoff between Mortgage Prepayments and Tax-Deferred Retirement Savings"
Discussant: Brigitte Madrian, Harvard University and NBER
Nicole Maestas, RAND Corporation, and Dana Goldman, NBER and RAND Corporation, "Medical Expenditure Risk and Household Portfolio Choice"
Discussant: Amy Finkelstein, MIT and NBER
James P. Ziliak, University of Kentucky, "Taxes, Transfers, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers"
Discussant: Bradley Helm, Department of the Treasury
Anil Kumar, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and Gary V. Engelhardt, Syracuse University, "Employer Matching and 401(k) Saving: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study"
Discussant: John Karl Scholz, University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER
Adam Looney, Federal Reserve Board, "Trading Tax Benefits for Child Support"
Discussant: Melissa Kearney, The Brookings Institution and NBER
Dean Karlan, Yale University, and John A. List, NBER and University of Chicago, "Does Price Matter in Charitable Giving?...
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