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I'm excited to be hiring an economics pre-doc fellow next summer at USC Economics. Projects include the welfare impacts of environmental and climate change policies, and the implementation and analysis of large-scale field experiments.

MrBeast MrBeast This is a great point! There's actually a whole website where economists Nathaniel Hendren Ben Sprung-Keyser listed all the policies like this where gov't gets more back in taxes than it pays for them (we call this MVPF of ♾) policyimpacts.org/policy-impacts…

What are the returns to IRS tax audits? How do they vary across the income distribution? In a new paper🚨, we find that $1 spent auditing high-income taxpayers yields more than $12 in revenue. For an overview, check out Catherine Rampell’s coverage 1/: washingtonpost.com/opinions/inter…

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/:

Each additional $1 spent auditing high-income taxpayers brings in more than $12 (!) in revenue. Too bad Congress, uhh, just defunded the IRS's efforts to audit high-income taxpayers. wapo.st/3NtqpFm

Announcing our next call for proposal for our Early Career Scholars Grant! Up to $20K in funding for projects studying government policy changes and estimating their marginal value of public funds. Apply by Nov 1. policyimpacts.org/events/40/appl…

Interested in working with me at @policyimpacts at MIT Economics ? I’m hiring a couple of pre-doctoral fellows to start next summer for work on the welfare impact of environmental policies, tax audits, and many other projects. Apply by October 15. Details: bit.ly/PolicyImpactsR…

🚨 Post-Doc hiring Alert 🚨 We're hiring a post-doc at Policy Impacts. We're eager to work with applied microeconomists in a broad set of subfields. If you're excited to study the welfare impacts of government policies, apply on JOE: aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

Awesome to see the CBO acknowledge the long-term impact of policy on both human capital development and government savings. This aligns with our findings at Policy Impacts

Watching Nathaniel Hendren on 🔥 presenting his work on IRS audits to the Senate Committee on the Budget! (Paper in the link!)

🚨*New Paper Alert*🚨 What are the most effective ways to fight climate change? What are the returns to subsidies for wind and solar? What about EV subsidies or energy efficient appliance rebates? How about raising revenue through fuel taxes or cap and trade auctions? 1/:

Excited to share new work on the returns to US environmental policy. We use the MVPF framework to examine 96 policies spanning subsidies, nudges and revenue raisers. Check out this thread from Nathaniel Hendren:

Extending the use of the marginal value of public funds framework to search for the most effective ways to address climate change, from Robert W. Hahn, Nathaniel Hendren, @rdmetcalfe, and Ben Sprung-Keyser nber.org/papers/w32728

Looking for a predoc position? I’m hiring! Come work with me at The Wharton School BEPP. You will work on a variety of topics related to upward mobility, migration, and the effectiveness of government policy. Apply by Feb 21: wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recruiti…