Panel Discussion: Tax Reform at One Year: Are We Wealthier and Healthier?

Tue, Jan 22 2019, 5:30 - 6:30pm

Gatton 307 - Woodward Hall

Join the Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise for the panel discussion "Tax Reform at One Year: Are We Wealthier and Healthier?" on January 22^nd, 2019.

The panel discussion will feature Dr. David Agrawal, Assistant Professor in the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration and Department of Economics at the University of Kentucky; Dr. Grant Clayton, Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Kentucky; Dr. Charles Courtemanche, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Kentucky; and Dr. William Hoyt, Endowed Professor of Economics at the University of Kentucky. Panelists will discuss if President Trump's tax reform plan has helped the American people. Dr. Aaron Yelowitz, Director of the Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise and Professor of Economics at the University of Kentucky, will serve as the moderator.

The event is free and open to the public. Please join us in Gatton B&E Woodward Hall, room 307, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm. Reception to follow.

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Speakers

David Agrawal Assistant Professor in the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration and Department of Economics, University of Kentucky

David R. Agrawal is an Assistant Professor in the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Kentucky. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan and an M.P.P. from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on public economics with an emphasis on taxation, fiscal federalism, and fiscal policy in urban and regional contexts.

Grant Clayton Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Kentucky

Grant Clayton is an Assistant Professor of Finance in the Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky and an ISFE affiliate. His research focus is empirical corporate finance, especially its intersections with industrial organization and labor economics. He received his PhD in finance from Northwestern University in 2018. Prior to pursuing academia, he worked in litigation consulting and corporate valuation in the private sector. His industry experience focused on oil and gas, power, and mining.

Charles Courtemanche Associate Professor of Economics, University of Kentucky Interim Director, Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise

Charles Courtemanche is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky and Interim Director of the Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise. He is a health economist and applied microeconomist with particular research interests in the economics of obesity and nutrition, health insurance, COVID-19, and big box retailers. He has published 40 papers in a variety of journals including the Economic Journal, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Health Economics, Health Affairs, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, and Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. He has received research funding from the National Institutes of Health, United States Department of Agriculture, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Courtemanche is also lead editor of the Southern Economic Journal, a Research Associate in the Health Economics Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Research Affiliate with the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).

William Hoyt Gatton Endowed Professor and Department of Economics Chair, University of Kentucky

William Hoyt is a Gatton Endowed Professor and the Department of Economics Chair in the Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky. William Hoyt’s research focuses on issues in public economics, with particular emphasis on state and local public finance and cost-benefit analysis of public programs. Dr. Hoyt’s current research includes work on fiscal competition, the impacts of state and local tax policies on employment, the impacts of tax policies on housing markets, educational choice plans and crossover in the use of poverty programs. Dr. Hoyt has served as Principal Investigator on projects funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Labor, and the United States Department of Agriculture (Economic Research Service). He is a research associate at the Center for Economic Studies (Munich, Germany) and Editor of the Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis. He has served on numerous advisory boards for the Commonwealth of Kentucky and was previously on the editorial board of the Journal of Urban Economics.

Aaron Yelowitz Professor of Economics, University of Kentucky

Aaron Yelowitz is a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Kentucky. He is also a joint faculty member in the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Kentucky and a senior fellow with the Cato Institute. He serves on the editorial boards for Journal of Labor Research, Public Finance Review, and Inquiry.
Dr. Yelowitz received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1994 and has previously worked at UCLA as an assistant professor. He also previously served as director of the Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise at University of Kentucky. Under his leadership, ISFE received $3 million gift from the Joseph W. Craft III Foundation. He has published articles in economics and health-related journals including the Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Health Affairs, Health Services Research, Health Economics, and Inquiry. He has taught graduate classes on public economics and health economics and undergraduate classes on health economics, labor economics, public economics, housing economics, and poverty and welfare programs.