Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar: Economic Behavior and Inequality.

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An NBER conference, Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar: Economic Behavior and Inequality, took place June 6-8 in Copenhagen. Research Associate Hilary W. Hoynes of the University of California, Berkeley and Claus Thustrup Kreiner of the University of Copenhagen organized the meeting, which was supported by the Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality at the University of Copenhagen. Keynote addresses were delivered by Hoynes and by Richard Blundell of University College London. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Chloe N. East, University of Colorado Denver; Sarah Miller, University of Michigan and NBER; Marianne E. Page, University of California, Davis and NBER; and Laura Wherry, New York University and NBER, "Multigenerational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation's Health"

* Antoine Ferey, University of Munich and CESifo; Benjamin Lockwood, University of Pennsylvania and NBER; and Dmitry Taubinsky, University of California, Berkeley and NBER, "Sufficient Statistics for Nonlinear Tax Systems with General Across-Income Heterogeneity" (NBER Working Paper 29582)

* Sarah Eichmeyer, University of Munich, and Christina A. Kent, Stanford University, "Parenthood in Poverty"

* Sydnee Caldwell, University of California, Berkeley; Scott T. Nelson, University of Chicago; and Daniel C. Waldinger, New York University and NBER, "Tax Refund Uncertainty: Evidence and Welfare Implications"

* William Boning, US Department of the...