PUBLIC POLICY FROM SCHOOL TO RETIREMENT CONFERENCE

Friday, November 01, 2013

1:00 - 2:00	Childcare Subsidies and Household Labor Supply (joint with Nezih Guner and Remsi Kaygusuz) Gustavo Ventura, Arizona State University
2:00 - 2:30	Break
2:30 -3:30	Optimal Taxation in an Empirical Life Cycle Model Andrew Shephard, University of Pennsylvania
3:30 -4:30	*Costs and Benefits of In-Kind Transfers: The Case of Medicaid Home Care Benefits* (joint with Ethan M.J. Lieber) Lee Lockwood, Northwestern University
4:30 -5:00	Break
5:00 -6:00	Mis-allocation of Political Capital (joint with Frederico Finan) Maurizio Mazzocco, UCLA
7:00	Dinner: House of Tricks

* Lobby and elevators to CPCOM building will be locked – enter using WEST exterior stairs.

9:30 -10:00	Continental Breakfast -Coffee
10:00 -11:00	Ability Tracking, Parental Effort, and Student Achievement Nirav Mehta, University of Western Ontario
11:00 -12:00	<strong><em>Factors Affecting College Completion and Student Ability in the U.S. Since 1900</em></strong> (joint with Kevin Donovan) Chris Herrington, University of South Alabama
12:00 -1:30	Lunch
1:30 -2:30	The Macro-dynamics of Sorting Between Workers and Firms (joint with Jean-Marc Robin) Jeremy Lise, University College London
2:30 -3:30	Wage Dispersion and Search Behavior (joint with Robert E. Hall) Andreas Mueller, Columbia University
3:30 - 4:00	Break
4:00-5:00	Long-Term Unemployment: Attached and Mismatched? David Wiczer, St. Louis Fed
7:00	Dinner: The Stockyards