New Paper Alert 🚨 We estimate the returns to IRS tax audits across the income distribution. We find $1 of IRS spending on audits of top earners delivers more than $12 of tax revenue. Along the way, we provide new evidence of the strong specific deterrence effects of audits. 1/:

Forthcoming in the JEL: "Generative AI for Economic Research: Use Cases and Implications for Economists" by Anton Korinek. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

New WP alert! 📢 I am excited to (finally) release the working paper, "Effects of Universal and Unconditional Cash Transfers on Child Abuse and Neglect," joint with Lindsey Bullinger and Kerri Raissian. Paper here: nber.org/papers/w31733

Thank you to the presenters, discussants, keynotes, participants, and staff who helped make the Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime this year such an amazing success!! Brilliant research, great people. Can’t wait for next year! University of Michigan CJARS

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Claudia Goldin “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.” #NobelPrize

I will be presenting my JMP "Income During Infancy Reduces Criminal Activity of Fathers and Children: Evidence from a Discontinuity in Tax Benefits" at the APPAM (#2023APPAM) on Sat at 3:30 PM.

Sakshi Bhardwaj JMP: "Income During Infancy Reduces Criminal Activity of Fathers and Children: Evidence from a Discontinuity in Tax Benefits" Website: sakshib.com/aboutme

SEA annual meeting app allows you to search people but it does not list all the social events unfortunately. Here are two CSWEP networking events I would like to announce. CSWEP TEA Time networking event at 11:45-12:45(Riverview II) on Saturday(11/18)

📢📢#AMIE is excited to announce its "3rd Workshop in Applied Microeconomics" for PhD students, to be held virtually on April 26, 2024. Submission Deadline: March 1 Call for papers: econmentoring.org/wp-content/upl… please share, R/T #EconTwitter 1/3

**Call for Sessions at SEA** : #AMIE will organize sessions at the Southern Economic Association, in Washington D.C. November 23-25: econmentoring.org/call-for-sea-s… Submit your session proposals by *April 21*! please RT and share!

We are very excited to share that Frank Schilbach, Gautam Rao and I are run a special issue at Journal of Development Economics on a very important topic, “Mental Health and Socioeconomic Outcomes”! Deadline: 01/30/2025. Thank you Andrew Foster! #economics sciencedirect.com/journal/journa…

Submit your paper to one of my favorite conferences! The submission deadline is this FRIDAY April 12, 2024 Conference in Detroit November 14-16 National Tax Assoc. I’ll see you there ntanet.org/2024/02/117th-…

Mark your calendars! In just one week from today, May 1st, the Criminal Justice Administrative Records System (CJARS) is launching a game-changing data product, the Justice Outcome Explorer (JOE).

Meet our #JSIT2024 Scholars attending a week-long intensive SSA RDRC funded training UW–Madison this week. Thank you to our valuable partner Howard University. rdrc.wisc.edu/2024-jsit-scho…

Thank you to Dr. Kilolo Kijakazi Social Security Advisory Board for attending #JSIT2024 and speaking with scholars about valuable topics impacting SSA programs and beneficiaries.

#QJE May 2024, #10, “Answering the Call of Automation: How the Labor Market Adjusted to Mechanizing Telephone Operation,” by Feigenbaum (James Feigenbaum) and Gross (Daniel P. Gross): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

.Tara E W & I are excited to announce the 24-25 lineup for the Virtual Economics of Poverty and Policy Seminar (VEPPS), w/seminars by Aaron Sojourner Krista Ruffini Alejandro Cid Sakshi Bhardwaj Zach Parolin Melissa McInerney Bradley Hardy. For more info see lucieschmidt.com/vepps-seminar