Pulications

A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution (with William C. Boning, Nathaniel Hendren, and Ben Sprung-Keyser). The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 140(1): 63-112, 2025.

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, 63(2): 486-503, 2025.

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 Works 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).

Student Loan Notches and Saving Responses (with Ashley Craig)

Labor Supply Responses to Family Tax Benefits (with Ashley Craig and Steven Hamilton)