Public Economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - Conference news - Brief article

The NBER's Program on Public Economics met in Cambridge on April 2 and 3. Program Directors Raj Cherty, University of California, Berkeley, and Amy Finkelstein, MIT, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Peter Diamond, MIT and NBER, and Johannes Spinnewijn, MIT, "Capital Income Taxes with Heterogeneous Discount Rates"

* Benjamin A. Olken, MIT and NBER, and Monica Singhal, Harvard University and NBER, "Informal Taxation"

* Raj Chetty, "Bounds on Elasticities with Optimization Frictions: An Application to Taxation and Labor Supply"

* Alexander W. Blocker, Boston University; Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Boston University and NBER; and Stephen A. Ross, MIT and NBER, "The True Cost of Social Security"

* Kevin Milligan, University of British Columbia and NBER, and Mark Stabile, University of Toronto, "Do Child Tax Benefits Affect the Well Being of Children? Evidence from...