Public economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - Conference notes

The NBER's Program on Public Economics met in Cambridge on November 1 and 2, 2012. Research Associates Raj Chetty of Harvard University and Justine Hastings of Brown University organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Sara LaLumia, Williams College; Nicholas Turner, Department of the Treasury; and James Sallee, University of Chicago and NBER, "New Evidence on Taxes and the Timing of Birth"

* John Sabelhaus, Federal Reserve Board, "Early Withdrawals from Retirement Accounts in the Great Recession"

* Jason DeBacker and Alex Yuskavage, Department of the Treasury, and Bradley Heim and Anh Tran, Indiana University, "The Lasting Impact of Enforcement: An Analysis of Corporate Tax Aggressiveness Following Audit"

* Eytan Sheshinski, Hebrew University, "Limits on Individual Choice"

* Lorenz Kueng, Northwestern University, "Tax News: Identifying the Household Consumption Response to Tax Expectations using Municipal Bond Prices"

* Henrik Kleven and Camille Landais, London School of Economics, and Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley and NBER, "Taxes, Wage Bargaining, and Migration: Evidence from Top-Income Foreigners in Denmark"

* John Friedman and Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER, and Soren Leth-Petersen, Torben Nielsen, and Tore Olsen, University of Copenhagen...