Trans-Atlantic public economics seminar on personal income taxation and household behavior.

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The NBER's bi-annual Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar met in Vienna on June 16-18, 2014. The seminar, hosted by the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), focused on the topic of personal income taxation and household behavior. The meeting was co-organized by Research Associate Roger Gordon of the University of California, San Diego and IHS Director Christian Keuschnigg, who chose the following papers for discussion:

* Richard Blundell, University College London and Institute for Fiscal Studies; Monica Costa Dias and Jonathan Shaw, Institute for Fiscal Studies; and Costas Meghir, Yale University and NBER, "Female Labor Supply, Human Capital, and Welfare Reform" (NBER Working Paper No. 19007)

* Robert McClelland and Shannon Mok, Congressional Budget Office, and Kevin Pierce, Internal Revenue Service, "Labor Force Participation Elasticities of Women and Secondary Earners within Married Couples"

* Aspen Gorry, Utah State University; Kevin Hassett and Aparna Mathur, American Enterprise Institute; and Glenn Hubbard, Columbia University and NBER, "The Elasticity of Deferred Income with Respect to Marginal Income Tax Rates"

* Jon Bakija and William Gentry, Williams College, "Capital Gains Taxes and Realizations: Evidence from a Long Panel of State-Level Data"

* Philipp Dorrenberg, Andreas Peichl, and Sebastian Siegloch, ZEW and IZA, "How Responsive Are Deductions to Tax Rate Changes?"

* Dominika Langenmayr, University of Munich, "Voluntary Disclosure of Evaded Taxes--Increasing Revenues, or Increasing Incentives to Evade ?"

* John Beshears, David Laibson, and Brigitte Madrian, Harvard University and...