EC2907 Public Reading Group | Stefanie Stantcheva

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2020

A reading group in Public Economics organized by Stefanie Stantcheva.

We meet Tuesdays 5-6 pm in M-16.

For group logistics and joining the mailing list, please contact the student organizer, Armando Miano.

For past reading groups and materials, go to: Classes

Class Materials:

Schedule and Reading List

Date	Presenters	Topic	Papers
Feb 18	Omeed Maghzian Daniel Prinz	Profit shifting	Torslov, Wier and Zucman (2020) “The Missing Profits of Nations”
Feb 25	François-Xavier Ladant Armando Miano	Payroll taxes and employer subsidies	Saez, Schoefer and Seim (2019) “Hysteresis from Employer Subsidies” Related: Saez, Shoefer and Seim (2019) “Payroll Taxes, Firm Behavior, and Rent Sharing: Evidence from a Young Workers’ Tax Cut in Sweden"
Mar 3	Antonio Coran LJ Ristovska	EITC. The earthquake	Kleven (2019) “The EITC and the Extensive Margin: A Reappraisal”
Mar 10	Harris Eppsteiner Ben Sprung-Keyser	State and local firm subsidies	Slattery (2019) “Bidding for Firms: Subsidy Competition in the U.S.” Slattery and Zidar (2020) “Evaluating State and Local Business Tax Incentives”
Mar 24	Ravi Jagadeesan Myles Wagner	Behavioral PF	Morrison and Taubinsky (2019) “Rules of Thumb and Attention Elasticities: Evidence from Under- and Overreaction to Taxes”
Mar 31	Robert French Valentine Gilbert	Theory (sufficient stats applied to robots and trade)	Costinot and Werning (2018) “Robots, Trade and Luddism: A Sufficient Statistics Approach to Optimal Technology Regulation”
Apr 7	Angie Acquatella Sarah Armitage	Combining structural estimation and reduced-form	Andrews, Gentzkow and Shapiro (2019) “On the Informativeness of Descriptive Statistics for Structural Estimates” Andrews, Gentzkow and Shapiro (2019) “Transparency in Structural Research"
Apr 14	Ed Kong	Health Economics	Einav, Finkelstein, Oostrom, Ostriker and Williams (2019) “Screening and selection: The Case of Mammograms”