2019 Workshop

September 19-21, 2019

Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University; Logan, Utah.

The annual QSPS Summer Workshop takes place in a selective setting in which 12 to 15 participants each have one hour to present and discuss research. This format and selective setting facilitates in-depth peer feedback, while interacting extensively with other workshop participants and guests.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Mariacristina De Nardi is the Thomas Sargent Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota, and she also serves as a Senior Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. She currently serves on the Editorial Boards of American Economic Journal: Economic Policy and the Journal of Economic Literature, in addition to serving as an Associate Editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics. She is a Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow of CEPR and the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Mariacristina has contributed to the fields of economic theory, quantative macroeconomics, and to the economics of retirement and aging, and her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Monetary Economics, Review of Economic Dynamics, Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Review, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Fiscal Studies, and the Annual Review of Economics, among several other outlets.

PROGRAM:

Thursday, 19 September (Huntsman Hall, Executive Boardroom)

4:45pm - 5:00pm Check-In at the Douglas D. Anderson Executive Boardroom, Huntsman Hall, Utah State University

5:00pm - 6:00pm Reconciling Occupational Mobility in the Current Population Survey

Christian vom Lehn, Brigham Young University

Coauthor: Cache Ellsworth

Coauthor: Zachary Kroff, University of Maryland

Download: Manuscript or Slides

6:15pm - 7:15pm Macroeconomic Effects of Reducing OASI Benefits: Comparison of Seven OLG Models

Jaeger Nelson, Congressional Budget Office

Coauthor: Kerk Phillips, Congressional Budget Office

Download: Manuscript or Slides

7:30pm - 9:00pm Complimentary Opening Dinner at Elements Restaurant

Friday, 20 September (Eccles Business Building, 9th Floor)

8:00am - 8:30am Complimentary Breakfast

8:30am - 9:30am Rural-Urban Migration, Structural Transformation, and Housing Markets in China

Aaron Hedlund, University of Missouri - Columbia

Coauthor: Carlos Garriga, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Coauthor: Yang Tang, Nanyang Technological University

Coauthor: Ping Wang, Washington University in St. Louis & NBER

Download: Manuscript or Slides

9:45am - 10:45am Keynote Presentation Marriage-Related Taxes, Social Security Benefits, & Female Labor Supply

Mariacristina De Nardi, University of Minnesota

Coauthor: Margherita Borella, Universita di Torino

Coauthor: Fang Yang, Louisana State Univeristy

Download: Manuscript or Slides

11:00am - 12:00pm Health, Longevity, and Welfare Inequality of the Elderly

Ray Miller, Colorado State University

Coauthor: Neha Bairoliya, University of Southern California

Download: Manuscript or Slides

12:00pm - 1:00pm Complimentary Lunch

1:00pm - 2:00pm Removing the Fine Print: Standardization, Disclosure, and Consumer Outcomes

Sheisha Kulkarni, University of Virginia & NBER

Coauthor: Santiago Truffa, University of Tulane

Coauthor: Gonzalo Iberti

Download: Manuscript or Slides

2:00pm - 7:00pm Free time (outdoor activities and sightseeing)

7:00pm - 9:00pm Complimentary Dinner & Campfire in Logan Canyon (Tony Grove Campground, Site 33)

Saturday, 21 September (Huntsman Hall, Executive Boardroom)

8:00am - 8:30am Complimentary Breakfast

8:30am - 9:30am Finite Horizon Life-Cycle Learning

Erin Cottle Hunt, Lafayette College

Download: Manuscript or Slides

9:45am - 10:45am Capital in a Segregated Economy

James Feigenbaum, Utah State University

Download: Manuscript or Slides

11:00pm - 12:00pm Effects of Increasing the Eligibility Age for Public Pension on Individual Labor Supply

Nobuhiko Nakazawa, University of California - San Diego

Download: Manuscript or Slides

12:00pm - 1:00pm Complimentary Lunch

1:00pm - 2:00pm The Welfare Implications of Fiscal Consolidations in Low-income Countries

Marina Mendes Tavares, International Monetary Fund

Coauthor: Adrian Peralta-Alva, International Monetary Fund

Coauthor: Xuan S. Tam, City University of Hong Kong

Coauthor: Xin Tang, International Monetary Fund

Download: Manuscript or Slides

2:15pm - 3:15pm Immigration Policy in a Time of Secular Stagnation

Jorge Barro, Rice University

Download: Manuscript or Slides

3:15pm - 8:00pm Free time (outdoor activities and sightseeing)

8:00pm - 9:30pm Complimentary Closing Dinner at The Beehive Grill

Location:

Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University, Logan, Utah. Visitors enjoy world-class scenery just minutes from campus. Easy access to hiking, biking, fishing, camping, boating and other sight-seeing opportunities in the mountains. Logan is truly an outdoor paradise for those who are enthusiastic about the mountains, providing everything from gentle nature trails along rivers and lakes to extreme challenges on some of the steepest slopes in the Rockies.