Public Economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - Brief article

The NBER's Program on Public Economics met in Cambridge on April 4 and 5, 2013. Program Director Amy Finkelstein of MIT and NBER Research Associate Brian Knight of Brown University organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Judith A. Frias, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social; Todd Kumler, Columbia University; and Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University and NBER, "Enlisting Workers in Monitoring Firms: Payroll Tax Compliance in Mexico"

* Patrick Kline, University of California, Berkeley and NBER, and Melissa Tartari, Yale University, "What Distributional Impacts Mean: Welfare Reform Experiments and Competing Margins of Adjustment"

* Casey Rothschild, Wellesley College, and Florian Scheuer, Stanford University and NBER, "Redistributive Taxation in the Roy Model" (NBER Working Paper No. 18228)

* Mikhail Golosov, Princeton University and NBER; John Hassler, Stockholm University; Per Krusell, Stockholm University and NBER; and Aleh Tsyvinski, Yale University and NBER, "Optimal Taxes on Fossil Fuel in General...