Fall 2009

Why Can Modern Governments Tax So Much? An Agency Model of Firms as Fiscal Intermediaries
Emmanuel Saez (Berkeley)
September 14, 2009
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E51-151

Estimating Welfare in Insurance Markets Using Variation in Prices
Amy Finkelstein (MIT)
September 21, 2009
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E51-151

Taxes and the Extraction of Exhaustible Resources: Evidence From the 1980 Windfall Profit Tax
Nirupama Rao (MIT)
September 29, 2009
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E51-151

The Incidence of Local Labor Demand Shifts
Matthew Notowidigdo (MIT)
October 05, 2009
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E51-151

The Role of Simplification and Information in College Decisions: Results from the H&R Block FAFSA Experiment
Eric Bettinger (Stanford)
October 13, 2009
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E51-151

Did Vietnam Veterans Get Sicker in the 1990's? The Complicated Effects of Military Service on Self-Reported Health
Brigham Frandsen (MIT)
October 19, 2009
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E51-151

Entrepreneurial Taxation with Occupational Choice and Credit Market Frictions
Florian Scheuer (MIT)
October 26, 2009
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E51-151

Affordable Health Insurance: The Smoothing Effect of Unemployment Insurance
David Brown (MIT)
November 09, 2009
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E51-151

Optimal Social Insurance with Individual Private Insurance
Brandon Lehr (MIT)
November 16, 2009
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E51-151

Technology Growth and Expenditure Growth in US Health Care
Jonathan Skinner (Dartmouth)
November 23, 2009
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E51-151

How to Target the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia
Benjamin Olken (MIT)
November 30, 2009
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E51-151

Topic to be announced
Carlos Dobkin (UC-Santa Cruz)
December 07, 2009
4:00pm - 5:30pm
E51-151

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