PEUK 2013
Sponsored by the ESRC, CAGE, and Warwick University
Organisers: Kimberley Scharf (CAGE and PEUK) and Cormac O'Dea (IFS)
Scarman House, University of Warwick
18th and 19th June 2013
TUESDAY JUNE 18th
10:30am – 11:00am REGISTRATION/COFFEE/TEA
11:00am – 1:00pm
Labor income dynamics and the insurance from taxes, transfers, and the family,
Michael Graber (IFS) (with Richard Blundell and Magne Mogstad)
Do parental credit constraints affect College enrollment? Nate Hilger (Harvard)
Production vs. revenue efficiency with limited tax capacity: Theory and evidence
from Pakistan, Johannes Spinnewijn (LSE and PEP) (with Michael Best, Anne
Brockmeyer, Henrik Kleven, Mazhar Waseem)
1:00pm – 2:00pm
LUNCH
2:00pm – 4:00pm
Market externalities of large unemployment insurance extension programs,
Camille Landais (LSE and PEP) (with Rafael Lalive and Josef Zweimüller)
"Taxpayer search for information", Joel Slemrod (Michigan) (with Jeffrey Hoopes
and Daniel Reck)
Housing market responses to transaction taxes: Evidence from notches and
stimulus in the UK, Henrik Kleven (LSE and PEP) (with Michael Best)
4:00pm – 4:30pm
COFFEE/TEA
4:30pm – 6:00pm
SPECIAL SESSION: Improving access to data for academic researchers and policy
analysts
Introduction, Stuart Croft (Warwick)
Big data and the Social Sciences – what’s going on? Peter Elias (Warwick and ESRC)
The HMRC Datalab: New opportunities for the research community to use
government administrative and survey data, Daniele Bega (HMRC) and Lucy
Nicholson (HMRC)
6:30pm
DRINKS RECEPTION AT SCARMAN AND DINNER TO FOLLOW AT 7:30PM
CAGE Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy
Department of Economics  University of Warwick
www.warwick.ac.uk\go\cage
WEDNESDAY JUNE 19th
9:00am – 10:30am
Using administrative data in health economics: An illustrative study of hospital
competition and inequality, Richard Cookson (York)
The effect of teacher pay on pupil attainment: A regression discontinuity design,
Luke Sibieta (IFS and UCL) (with Ellen Greaves)
10:30am – 10:45am COFFEE/TEA
10:45am – 12:30pm PANEL DISCUSSION: “Administrative data: New opportunities and new
collaborations”
Panel Chair: Kimberley Scharf (Warwick and PEUK)
Panelists: Jonathan Athow (HMRC), Paul Boyle (ESRC), Paul Johnson (IFS), Henrik
Kleven (LSE), Mark Robson (Bank of England), Joel Slemrod (Michigan)
12:30pm – 1:30pm
LUNCH
1:30pm – 3.30pm
Offshoring and the onshore composition of tasks and skills, Sascha Becker
(Warwick and CAGE) (joint with Karolina Ekholm and Marc-Andreas Muendler)
The causal effects of an industrial policy, Ralf Martin (CEP and Imperial College
Business School) (with Chiara Criscuolo, Henry Overman, and John Van Reenen)
3:30pm
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