Public economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - Brief article

The NBER's Program on Public Economics met in Cambridge on October 30, 2014. Program Co-director Amy Finkelstein of MIT and Research Associate Ilyana Kuziemko of Columbia University chose these papers to discuss:

* Nathaniel Hendren, Harvard University and NBER, "The Inequality Deflator: Interpersonal Comparisons without a Social Welfare Function" (NBER Working Paper No. 20351)

* Benjamin Lockwood, Harvard University, and Matthew Weinzierl, Harvard University and NBER, "Positive and Normative Judgments Implicit in U.S. Tax Policy, and the Costs of Unequal Growth and Recessions"

* Adnan Khan, London School of Economics; Asim I. Khwaja, Harvard University and NBER; and Benjamin Olken, MIT and NBER, "Tax Farming Redux: Experimental Evidence on Performance Pay for Tax Collectors"

* Mikhail Golosov, Princeton University and NBER; Aleh Tsyvinski, Yale University and NBER; and Nicolas...