“What Went Wrong with Federal Student Loans?” (with Constantine Yannelis.) Forthcoming Journal of Economic Perspectives.
“How Much Does College Cost and How Does it Relate to Student Borrowing?” National Tax Journal. September 2024 (Vol. 77, no.3).
"What is the Active Prevalence of COVID-19?" (with Mu-Jeung Yang, Nathan Seegert, Maclean Gaulin, Adam Looney, Brian Orleans, Andrew T. Pavia, Kristina Stratford, Matthew Samore, and Stephen C Alder. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023.
“The Consequences of Student Loan Credit Expansions: Evidence from Three Decades of Default Cycles.” (with Constantine Yannelis.) Journal of Financial Economics, 2022.
“High variability in transmission of SARS-CoV-2 within households and implications for control.” (with Damon J.A. Toth, Alexander B. Beams, Lindsay T. Keegan, Yue Zhang, Tom Greene, Brian Orleans, Nathan Seegert, Stephen C. Alder, Matthew H. Samore. PLOS ONE doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259097. 2021.
“Probability-Based Estimates of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Seroprevalence and Detection Fraction, Utah, United States.” (with Matthew Samore, Steven Alder, Andrew T. Pavia, Nathan Seegert, Maclean Gaulin, Brian Orleans, Kristina Stratford, and Mu-Jeung Yang.) Emerging Infectious Diseases, Nov 2021.
“How Useful Are Default Rates? Borrowers with Large Balances and Student Loan Repayment.” 2019. (with Constantine Yannelis.) Economics of Education Review. Volume 71, August 2019, Pages 135-145.
“Same-Sex Married Tax Filers after Windsor and Obergefell.” 2018. (with Geof Gee and Robin Fisher.) Demography. 55:1423 (And Office of Tax Analysis Working paper 108.)
“Measuring Inflation in Grades: An application of Price Indexing to Undergraduate Grades.” 2016. (with Rey Hernández-Julián). Economics of Education Review. Volume 55, December.
“A Crisis in Student Loans? How Changes in the Characteristics of Borrowers and in the Institutions They Attended Contributed to Rising Loan Defaults.” 2015. (with Constantine Yannelis.) Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. (Fall 2015), pp. 1-68.
“Changes in the Distribution of After-Tax Wealth in the US: Has Income Tax Policy Increased Wealth Inequality?” (with Kevin Moore). Fiscal Studies. Volume 37, Issue 1, pages 77-104, March 2016. FEDS Working paper 2015-058.
“Paying Too Much for Energy? The True Costs of Our Energy Choices” (with Michael Greenstone), Daedalus, 2012, 241(2): 10–30.
“Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment” (with Raj Chetty and Kory Kroft). American Economic Review 99(4):1145-1177, September 2009. NBER Working Paper 13330.
“Consumption Smoothing and the Welfare Consequences of Social Insurance in Developing Economies” (with Raj Chetty), Journal of Public Economics 90: 2351-2356, 2006. NBER Working Paper 11708.
“Declining Fertility, Child Poverty, and the Wellbeing of Families and Children.” 2023.
“The Double Benefit Myth: Disallowed Interest Expense and Inefficiency in the Municipal Bond Market.” 2023.
“An Analysis of the EITC and Welfare Policies in the 1990s.” 2022.
“What drives the Effectiveness of Social Distancing in Combating COVID-19 across U.S. States?” (with Mu-Jeung Yang, Maclean Gaulin, Nathan Seegert.) Working Paper: 2020-08-20.
“Work and Opportunity before and after Incarceration.” 2020. (with Nick Turner.)
“What drives the Effectiveness of Social Distancing in Combating COVID-19 across U.S. States?” (with Mu-Jeung Yang, Maclean Gaulin, Nathan Seegert.) Working Paper: 2020.
“Explaining Trends in Effective Tax Rates.” 2018. (with Ben Harris.)
“Measuring Loan Outcomes at Postsecondary Institutions: Cohort Repayment Rates as an Indicator of Student Success and Institutional Accountability.” 2017. (with Tiffany Chou and Tara Watson.) NBER Working Paper 23118.
“The Rise of Alternative Work Arrangements: Evidence and Implications for Tax Filing and Benefit Coverage.” 2017. (with Emilie Jackson and Shanthi Ramnath.) Office of Tax Analysis Working Paper 114.
“Are There Returns to Experience at Low-Skill Jobs? Evidence from Single Mothers in the United States Over the 1990s." (with Day Manoli), Upjohn Working Paper No. 16-255.
“The Effect of Anticipated Tax Changes on Intertemporal Labor Supply and the Realization of Taxable Income." (with Monica Singhal), Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2005-44. Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2005. NBER Working paper 12417.
“The Effects of Welfare Reform and Related Policies on Single Mothers’ Welfare Use and Employment.” Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2005-45.Washington: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2005.
“Price Inflation and Cost of Living.” (with David Stringfellow.) Economic Report to the Governor. Utah Economic Council.
“How Much Do Tax-Exempt Organizations Benefit from Tax Exemption?” 2022. (with Nathan Born.) Tax Policy Center Research Report.
"Middle-Class Redistribution: Tax and Transfer Policy for Most Americans" with Jeff Larrimore and David Splinter. In Melissa S. Kearney and Amy Ganz (eds.), Securing Our Economic Future. Washington, DC: Aspen Institute. 2020, 50-81. Media: WaPo
“How to Fix Federal Student Loan Programs.” (with Constantine Yannelis), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Volume 39, Number 2:540-548. 2020.
“Sharing the Risk: Forcing colleges to assume part of the default tab would motivate schools to better inspire success.” (with Tara Watson), The Milken Institute Review, 20(4): 32-42. 2018.
“A Risk Sharing Proposal for Student Loans.” (with Tiffany Chou and Tara Watson.) The Hamilton Project, April, 2017.
“Is High Student Loan Debt Always a Problem?” (with Constantine Yannelis), SIEPR Policy Brief, Stanford University, July 2016.
“Renewing Economically Distressed American Communities,” (with Michael Greenstone), Issues in Science and Technology, Winter, 2011.
“Trends: Reduced Earnings for Men in America,” (with Michael Greenstone), The Milken Institute Review, 13(3): 8-16. 2011.
“Income Risk and the Benefits of Social Insurance: Evidence from Indonesia and the United States” (with Raj Chetty), in Takatoshi Ito and Andrew Rose, eds., Fiscal Policy and Management, East Asia Seminar on Economics Vol. 16. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. NBER Working Paper 11709.
“Family Composition and Marginal Tax Rates” (with Monica Singhal), Proceedings of the 97th Annual Conference, National Tax Association (2004), pp. 129-134.