Public economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Program on Public Economics met in Palo Alto on November 5-6. Research Associates Raj Chetty and Mark Duggan of Stanford University organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Florian Scheuer, Stanford University and NBER, and Ivan Werning, MIT and NBER, "The Taxation of Superstars" (NBER Working Paper No. 21323)

* Benjamin B. Lockwood, Harvard University; Charles G. Nathanson, Northwestern University; and Glen Weyl, Microsoft Corporation, "Taxation and the Allocation of Talent"

* Daniel K. Fetter, Wellesley College and NBER, and Lee Lockwood, Northwestern University and NBER, "Government Old-Age Support and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Old Age Assistance Program"

* Alexander M. Gelber, University of California, Berkeley, and NBER; Timothy J. Moore, George Washington University and NBER; and Alexander Strand, Social Security Administration, "The Effect of Disability Insurance Payments on Beneficiaries' Earnings"

* Hugh Macartney, Duke University and NBER; Robert McMillan, University of Toronto and NBER; and Uros Petronijevic, University of Toronto, "Education Production and Incentives"

* Xavier Giroud, MIT and NBER, and Joshua Rauh, Stanford University and NBER, "State Taxation and the Reallocation of Business Activity: Evidence from Establishment-Level Data" (NBER Working Paper No. 21534)

* Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER; Salome Baslandze, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance; and...