CEPR PUBLIC POLICY SYMPOSIUM 2010

Joint with the International Growth Centre (IGC)
State Capabilities Programme Meeting

Hosted by
London School of Economics

18-19 June 2010

PAPERS

 
FRIDAY 18 JUNE

 
11.00-11.30 Coffee, Tea, Biscuits

 
11.30-12.30 Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin. The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers Productivity

Decio Coviello (Università Tor Vergata)
*Andrea Ichino (Università di Bologna and CEPR)
Nicola Persico (New York University)

 
12.30-13.30 Women's Rights and Development

Raquel Fernández (New York University and CEPR)

 
13.30-14.30 Lunch

 
14.30-15.30 Taxation of Family Firms

Wojciech Kopczuk (Columbia University and CEPR)
*Joel Slemrod (University of Michigan)

 
15.30-16.30 How to Target the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

Vivi Alatas (World Bank)
Abhijit Banerjee (MIT and CEPR)
Rema Hanna (Harvard Kennedy School and CEPR)
*Ben Olken (MIT and CEPR)
Julia Tobias (Stanford)

 
16.30-17.00 Coffee Break

 
17.00-18.00 Unwilling or Unable to Cheat? Evidence from a Randomized Tax Audit Experiment in Denmark

Henrik Kleven (London School of Economics and CEPR)
Martin Knudsen (Danish Tax and Customs Administration)
*Claus Thustrup Kreiner (University of Copenhagen and CEPR)
Søren Pedersen (Aalborg University)
Emmanuel Saez (University of California, Berkeley and CEPR)

 
18.00-19.05 Keynote: "Public Finance and Development"

Tim Besley (London School of Economics and CEPR)

 
19.30 Conference Dinner

 
SATURDAY 19 JUNE

 
09.00-10.00 Rank Incentives: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Iwan Barankay (University of Pennsylvania and CEPR)

 
10.00-11.00 A Test of Racial Bias in Capital Sentencing

Alberto Alesina (Harvard University and CEPR)
*Eliana La Ferrara (Università Bocconi and CEPR)

 
11.00-11.30 Coffee Break

 
11.30-12.30 Does Terrorism Work?

Eric D. Gould (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and CEPR)
*Esteban Klor (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and CEPR)

 
12.30-13.30 Lunch

 
13.30-14.30 Equilibrium Search and Tax Credit Reform

*Andrew Shephard (University College London)

 
14.30-15.30 Taxation and International Mobility of Superstars: Evidence from the European Football Market

Henrik Kleven (London School of Economics and CEPR)
*Camille Landais (University of California, Berkeley)
Emmanuel Saez (University of California, Berkeley and CEPR)

 
15.30-16.00 Coffee Break

 
16.00-17.00 Keynote: "Top Income Shares in the Long Run"

Sir Tony Atkinson (Nuffield College, Oxford University)

 
17.00 End of Conference

 
* Indicates the presenter. Speakers have 1 hour to present, including questions from the audience during the talk.

 
Organizers: Oriana Bandiera (London School of Economics and CEPR)
Henrik Kleven (London School of Economics and CEPR)
Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics and CEPR)
Emmanuel Saez (University of California, Berkeley and CEPR)