April 1st: 10 am -3 pm ET

Early career scholars workshop

Session 1

10-10.30am ET

Presenter: Elisa Casi

Paper: "Dividend Withholding Tax Arbitrage in Europe: the Effect of Stricter Enforcement" joint with Evelina Gavrilova-Zoutman; David Murphy; Floris Zoutman

Discussant: David Agrawal

10.30-11am ET

Presenter: Luis Martinez

Paper: "Economic and Political Effects of Fiscal Rules: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Colombia" joint with Maria Carreri

Discussant: Jacopo Ponticelli

11-11.30am ET

Presenter: Malka Guillot

Paper: "Is Charitable Giving Political? Evidence from Wealth and Income Tax Returns" joint with Julia Cage

Discussant: Micael Castanheiras

11.30-12pm ET

Presenter: Bibek Adhikari

Paper: "Corporate Taxpayer Responses to Size-Based Enforcement and Disclosure Thresholds" joint with Jason DeBacker and Erin Towery

Discussant: Youssef Benzarti

Session 2

12.15-12.45pm ET

Presenter: Jeffrey Hicks

Paper: "Resilient Mothers: The Effect of Reducing Welfare Access on Maternal Employment, Health, and Children's Prosperity" joint with Gaelle Simard-Duplain, David A Green, William Warburton

Discussant: Marianne Bitler

12.45-1.15pm ET

Presenter: Tejaswi Velayudhan

Paper: "Does the Informal Sector Escape the VAT?" joint with Giacomo Brusco

Discussant: Lucie Gadenne

1.15-1.45pm ET

Presenter: Jacob Bastian

Paper: "Overcoming Credit Constraints and Migrating Out of Rural and Distressed America" joint with Dan Black

Discussant: Evan Taylor

1.45pm - 2.15 ET

Presenter: Oyebola Okunogbe

Paper: "Becoming Legible to the State: The Role of Detection and Enforcement Capacity in Tax Compliance"

Discussant: Mazhar Waseem

Keynote: 2.15-2.45pm

Presenter: Stefanie Stantcheva

Paper: "Wealth and Property Taxation in the United States"

April 8th: 10 am -2 pm ET

Graduate students workshop

Session 1: 10.05 - 10.50am

Presenter: Damian Vergara

Paper: "When do Minimum Wages Increase Social Welfare? A Sufficient Statistics Analysis with Taxes and Transfers"

Presenter: Sarah Robinson

Paper: "What Drives Tax Policy? Political, Institutional, and Economic Determinants of State Tax Policy in the Past 40 Years" joint with Alisa Tazhitdinova

Discussant: Thomas Winberry

Session 2: 10.50 – 11.35am

Presenter: Anna Theresa Bührle

Paper: "Tax loss restrictions and venture capital funding of start-ups"

Presenter: Jordan Richmond

Paper: "Firm Responses to Book Income Alternative Minimum Taxes"

Discussant: Christine Dobrige

Session 3: 11.35 – 12.20pm

Presenter: Luisa Doerr

Paper: "The Effects of Corporate Taxes on Business Entry and Exit" joint with Jim Hines, Paul Kindsgrab, and Niklas Potrafke

Presenter: Annalisa Tassi

Paper: "Local engagement: Do community needs affect the decision to volunteer?"

Discussant: Don Bruce

Session 4: 12.20 – 1.05pm

Presenter: John Iselin

Paper: "Measuring Take-up of the California EITC with State Administrative Data" joint with Taylor Mackay and Matthew Unrath

Presenter: Jana Schuetz

Paper: "Pension Reform Preferences in Germany: Does Information Matter?" joint with Silke Uebelmesser, Carmela Aprea, Ronja Baginski

Discussant: Tatiana Homonoff

Keynote: 1.05 – 1.25pm

Fireside chat with the journal editor featuring Nathaniel Hendren