Eva Davoine presents at the IEB–EU Tax Observatory Workshop: “The Political Costs of Taxation” Enforcing the salt tax in early modern France led to a 20-fold rise in state–citizen conflict effects lasting until the French Revolution Tax enforcement has deep political costs.

We are back for #BSESummerForum Public Economics workshop Co-organized with Amedeo Piolatto, Luca Salvadori Pierre Boyer Martin Besfamille and @nina_bonkova! Join us for two days of exciting new research. Here’s a thread 🧵with the highlights! Barcelona School of Economics

And that’s a wrap on the #BSESummerForum Public Econ workshop! 💥Huge thanks to all the amazing presenters, discussants, and participants and to my fantastic co-organizers Amedeo Piolatto, Luca Salvadori, Pierre Boyer, Martin Besfamille, @nina_bonkova See you next year Barcelona School of Economics

Ever feel like everything online is getting angrier? You’re not imagining it. Tweets with anger have surged since 2013, while neutral content has declined. 📉 And it matters for policy—our new paper shows how emotions shape what people support. socialeconomicslab.org/research/worki…

Thank you tylercowen and Alex Tabarrok for linking to our new work on emotions and policy views on Marginal Revolution marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

Super excited to present our new work on Emotions and policy views at the NBER political economy sessions tomorrow. Sessions are live streamed! nber.org/conferences/si… if interested you can find the paper here: socialeconomicslab.org/research/worki…

Huge thanks to International Tax and Public Finance, Thiess Buettner 🇪🇺🇩🇪, Philipp Doerrenberg and #IIPF2025 for a great conference and this recognition! Very grateful to my fantastic coauthors, Joseph Enguehard & Igor Kolesnikov whose contributions and support were key in this research adventure!

🧵Pourquoi est-ce que la taxe Zucman rapporterait sûrement plus que €5Mds (et moins de €25Mds) ?