Public Economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

Members of the NBER's Public Economics Program met April 21-22 in Cambridge and online. Faculty Research Fellows Ellora Derenoncourt of Princeton University and Eric Zwick of the University of Chicago and Research Associate Neale Mahoney of Stanford University organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Jonathan M. Colmer and Brennan Williams, University of Virginia, and John L. Voorheis, US Census Bureau, "Air Pollution and Economic Opportunity in the United States"

* Jonas Kolsrud, Uppsala University, and Camille Landais, Johannes Spinnewijn, and Daniel Reck, London School of Economics, "Retirement Consumption and Pension Design"

* Aria Golestani, University of California, Irvine, "Silenced: Consequences of the Nuisance Property Ordinances"

* Katy Bergstom, The World Bank; William Dodds, Tulane University; and Juan Rios, Uber, "Welfare Analysis of Changing Notches: Evidence from Bolsa Familia"

* Ithai Lurie, US Department of the Treasury; Elena Patel, University of Utah; and Shanthi Ramnath, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, "Inducing Labor: The Impact of Health Insurance on Postnatal Labor Supply"

* Thomas Blanchet, University of California, Berkeley, and Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley and NBER, "Real-Time Inequality"

* Ursina M. Schaede, University of Zurich, and Ville Mankki, University of Turku, "Quota versus Quality? Long-Term Gains from an Unusual Gender Quota"

* Sarah Robinson, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Alisa Tazhitdinova, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER, "What Drives Tax Policy? Political, Institutional, and Economic Determinants of State Tax Policy in the Past 70 Years"

* Motohiro Yogo, Princeton University and NBER; Andrew Whitten, US Department of the Treasury; and Natalie Cox, Princeton University, "Financial Inclusion across the United States"

* Kevin A. Roberts, Duke University; E. Mark Curtis, Wake Forest University; Eric C. Ohrn...