CEPR Public Economics Annual Symposium 2014

Organisers: Kim Scharf (U of Warwick) and Henrick Kleven(LSE)

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Monday, December 8

10.00 – 10.30 Registration and Coffee

Session 1 Chair: Henrik Kleven (London School of Economics and CEPR)

10.30 – 11.15 Peer Influence and Segregation in Education

*Gilat Levy (London School of Economics and CEPR)

Ronny Razin (London School of Economics and CEPR)

11.15 – 12.00 Interaction, prejudice and performance. Evidence from randomly assigned peers in South Africa

*Eliana La Ferrara (IGIER, Università Bocconi, Milano and CEPR)

Justine Burns (University of Cape Town)

Lucia Corno (Queen Mary University, London)

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch

Session 2 Chair: Kimberley Scharf (University of Warwick and CEPR)

13.00 – 13.45 Do-gooders and Go-getters: Career Incentives, Selection, and Performance in Public Service Delivery

*Oriana Bandiera (London School of Economics and CEPR)

Nava Ashraf (Harvard Business School)

Scott S Lee (Harvard Business School)

13.45 – 14.30 Heterogeneous Responses to Effective Tax Enforcement: Evidence from Spanish Firms

*Miguel Almunia (The University of Warwick)

David Lopez-Rodriguez (Bank of Spain).

14.30 – 15.00 Coffee break

Session 3 Chair: Oriana Bandiera (London School of Economics and CEPR)

15.00 – 15.45 The Role of Inheritability and Life - Events in Charitable Giving Behavior: Empirical Evidence from Danish Administrative Data

*David Dreyer Lassen (University of Copenhagen)

Claus Thustrup Kreiner (University of Copenhagen and CEPR)

Peer Ebbesen Skov (University of Copenhagen)

15.45 – 16.30 Children and the Gender Gap

*Camille Landais (London School of Economics)

Henrik Kleven (London School of Economics and CEPR)

Jakob Søgaard (University of Copenhagen)

16.30 – 17.00 Coffee break

17.00 – 17.45 Is Third-Party Information the Cure for Small Business Tax Evasion? Evidence from the Introduction of Credit-Card Reporting

*Joel Slemrod (University of Michigan)

Brett Collins (Internal Revenue Service)

Jeffrey Hoopes (Ohio State University)

Daniel Reck (University of Michigan)

Michael Sebastiani (Internal Revenue Service)

19.00 Dinner

Tuesday, December 9

Session 4 Chair: Andreas Lange (University of Hamburg)

09.00 –09.45 Party Hacks and True Believers: The Effect of Party Affiliation on Political Preferences

*Esteban Klor (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and CEPR)

Eric Gould (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and CEPR)

09.45 – 10.30 Politics, nepotism and the labor market: An analysis of the labor market outcomes of politicians’ families

*Marco Manacorda (London School of Economics and CEPR)

Stefan Gagliarducci (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break

Session 5 Chair: Sarah Smith (University of Bristol)

11.00 – 11.45 Information Frictions and the Welfare Consequences of Adverse Selection

*Johannes Spinnewijn (London School of Economics and CEPR)

Ben Handel (University of California, Berkeley)

Jon Kolstad (Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania)

11.45 – 12.30 VAT Notches

*Ben Lockwood (University of Warwick and CEPR)

Li Liu (University of Oxford)

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch

Session 6 Chair: *Gilat Levy (London School of Economics and CEPR)

13.30 – 14.15 Endogenous Property Rights

*Konstantin Sonin (Higher School of Economics, Moscow and CEPR)

Daniel Diermeier (Northwestern University)

Georgy Egorov (Northwestern University)

14.15 – 15.00 Appropriability and the Emergence of Social Hierarchy

*Omer Moav (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Warwick and CEPR)

Joram Mayshar (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Zvika Neeman (Tel-Aviv University)

Luigi Pascali (University of Warwick)

*Indicates the presenter

Organisers: Henrik Kleven (London School of Economics and CEPR) and Kimberley Scharf (University of Warwick and CEPR)