What are people's main concerns about taxes? In new paper w Beatrice Ferrario we provide answers and discuss new methods. We show how to design & analyze open-ended survey questions to elicit people's first-order concerns on issues. Thread ⬇️ scholar.harvard.edu/files/stantche… 1/N

I've long sought a tax-deductible way to purchase CO2 emissions permits. To offset my carbon footprint without buying potentially nonadditional offsets. Climate Vault figured it out. Count me in.

Here is an analysis that uses work by folks here at Penn Wharton Penn Wharton Budget Model. The work cited is available here: budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2022/2/…

Based on IRS tax data, annual earnings losses during COVID were more common among low-earning workers. However, after incorporating expanded unemployment insurance (UI), fewer low-earning workers experienced declines in 2020 than during either the Great Recession or 2019.

First day back in the office

Congratulations to Treasury's Ithai Lurie & his co-authors Jacob Goldin & Janet McCubbin for winning NIHCM's 2022 Research Award for a study on taxpayer outreach that led to a 1.1 pp increase in health insurance coverage & is estimated to have saved at least 700 lives.

New paper: Automatic tax filing could save tens of billions of $$ every year - and could work for nearly half of Americans. #TimeTaxes Richard H Thaler Liam Delaney Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 nber.org/papers/w30008

New working paper alert! "Automatic Tax Filing: Simulating a Pre-Populated Form 1040." Joint with Andy Whitten (Andrew Whitten | @[email protected]), Katie Lim, Bruce Sacerdote. nber.org/papers/w30008. Short thread follows. (All opinions in paper + thread are ours and not those of our employers.)

Lucas = Lucas Goodman 🏳️‍🌈 See his summary thread here: x.com/goodmanl/statu…

After 5 yrs of iterating on math, simulations, writing, we updated our working paper on clustering. Lots of time working on single formulation that captures intermediate cases, simple after-the-fact, math matches intuition. arxiv.org/abs/1710.02926

Comprehensive and insightful analysis of racial gaps in labor market returns to military service from Kyle Greenberg , Matthew Gudgeon, Adam Isen , Corbin Miller & Rich Patterson in the QJE

New work analyzing the returns to Army service in the 90s and 00s and how they vary by race with Kyle Greenberg Adam Isen Corbin Miller Rich Patterson is just accepted at the QJE: x.com/QJEHarvard/sta… 🧵👇1/9

New #FEDSNote shows Census data understated the increase in unemp. benefits in 2020 - particularly among low-income families. As a result, official poverty rates were overstated by about 2 pct. points, and corrected poverty reached a 6-decade low: federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/…

Kyle Pomerleau Here is the most recent evidence on the relationship between buybacks and price: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Kyle Pomerleau Right, buyback myth # 2, buybacks do not mechanically increase stock prices, as described by my colleauge Donald Marron dmarron.com/2018/04/12/thr…

“Who doesn’t like the IRS? Who?” 🤣 #ilovetheIRS

Website where you can copy in a table from an excel spreadsheet and AI will translate it to LaTeX code: tablesgenerator.com HT Becky Lester

#EconTwitter Office of Tax Analysis at Treasury is hiring RAs; this is a wonderful opportunity for budding economists. You have the chance to work with world-class economists on important problems using the best data available! And as a bonus, the culture is supportive and fun.

If I could magically make one change to PhD metrics training everywhere, it would be to add a week on power.

Time for me to leave twitter. Catch me on Mastodon: mas.to/@whitten