Public Economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Program on Public Economics met in Cambridge on April 9-10. Program Co-director Raj Chetty of Harvard University and Research Associate John N. Friedman of Brown University organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

Behavioral Responses to Taxation: Research Using Administrative Tax Data

* George Bulman, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Caroline M. Hoxby, Stanford University and NBER, "The Returns to the Federal Tax Credits for Higher Education" (NBER Working Paper No. 20833)

* Patricia Tong, Department of the Treasury, and Li Zhou, University of Alberta, "The Impact of Place-Based Employment

Tax Credits on Local Labor: Evidence from Tax Data"

* Michael P. Devereux and Li Liu, University of Oxford, "Incorporation for Investment"

* David Joulfaian, Department of the Treasury; James M. Poterba, MIT and NBER; and Robert Gordon, Twenty-First Securities Corporation, "Choosing Between the Estate Tax and Basis Carryover Regime of 2010"

* Jason M. DeBacker, Middle Tennessee State University; Bradley Heim and Anh Tran, Indiana University; and Alexander Yuskavage, Department of the Treasury, "Once Bitten, Twice Shy? The Lasting Impact of 1RS Audits on Individual Tax Reporting"

* Julie Berry Cullen, University of California, San Diego, and NBER; Nicholas Turner, Department of the Treasury; and Ebonya L. Washington, Yale University and NBER, "Political Alignment and Tax Evasion"

* Tatyana Deryugina, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Laura Kawano, Department of the Treasury; and Steven D. Levitt, University of Chicago and NBER, "The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns" (NBER Working Paper No. 20713)

* Kirk B. Doran, University of Notre Dame; Alexander M. Gelber, University of California, Berkeley, and NBER; and Adam Isen, Department of the Treasury, "The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration on Firms: Evidence from H-1B Visa

Lotteries" (NBER Working Paper No...