Public Economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - Conference news - Brief article

The NBER's Program on Public Economics met in Cambridge on November 3-4. Codirectors Amy Finkelstein of MIT and Raj Chetty of Stanford University and Research Associate Jonathan Gruber of MIT organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Florian Scheuer, Stanford University and NBER, and Ivan Werning, MIT and NBER, "Mirrlees Meets Diamond-Mirrlees" (NBER Working Paper No. 22076)

* Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley, and NBER, and Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER, "A Simpler Theory of Optimal Capital Taxation"

* Raj Chetty, David Grusky, and Maximilian Hell, Stanford University; Nathaniel Hendren, Harvard University and NBER; Robert Manduca, Harvard University; and Jimmy Narang, University of California, Berkeley, "The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility in the U.S." (subsequently posted as NBER Working Paper No. 22910)

* Dmitry Taubinsky, Dartmouth College and NBER, and Alex Rees-Jones, University of Pennsylvania, "Attention Variation and Welfare: Theory and...