Publications

A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution (with William C. Boning, Nathaniel Hendren, and Ben Sprung-Keyser). Forthcoming at The Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Coverage: Washington Post, Bloomberg, NBER

Does Giving Tax Debtors a Break Improve Compliance and Income? Evidence from Quasi-Random Assignment of IRS Revenue Officers (with William C. Boning, Joel Slemrod, and Alex Turk). Economic Inquiry, 1-18, 2024.

The Impact of Withdrawal Penalties on Retirement Savings (with Victoria L. Bryant). Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 232, 105083, April 2024.

Working Papers

Balancing Act: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Role of Non-Monetary Job Characteristics in Pension Reforms (with Kadir Atalay and Anastasia Burkovskaya). Submitted. 

Select Work in Progress

The Effects of Increasing the Full Retirement Age on Retirement Savings: Evidence from U.S. Tax Data (with Victoria L. Bryant, Jonathan M. Leganza, and Dhiren Patki).

Major Differences in Income Contingent Student Loan Repayment (with Andrew Simon).