Published Papers
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Bounds on Elasticities with Optimization Frictions: A Synthesis of Micro and Macro Evidence on Labor Supply
forthcoming, Econometrica
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How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project STAR
(with John Friedman, Nathaniel Hilger, Emmanuel Saez, Diane Schanzenbach, and Danny Yagan), Quarterly Journal of Economics 126(4): 1593-1660, 2011
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Are Micro and Macro Labor Supply Elasticities Consistent?
A Review of Evidence on the Intensive and Extensive Margins
(with Adam Guren, Day Manoli, and Andrea Weber), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 101: 471-75, 2011
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Adjustment Costs, Firm Responses, and Micro vs. Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: Evidence from Danish Tax Records
(with John Friedman, Tore Olsen, and Luigi Pistaferri), Quarterly Journal of Economics 126(2): 749-804, 2011
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Dividend and Corporate Taxation in an Agency Model of the Firm
(with Emmanuel Saez) American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 2(3): 1-31, 2010
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Optimal Taxation and Social Insurance with Endogenous Private Insurance
(with Emmanuel Saez) American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 2(2): 85-114, 2010
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Is the Taxable Income Elasticity Sufficient to Calculate Deadweight Loss? The Implications of Evasion and Avoidance
American Economic Journal : Economic Policy 1(2): 31-52, 2009
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Sufficient Statistics for Welfare Analysis: A Bridge Between Structural and Reduced-Form Methods
Annual Review of Economics 1: 451-488, 2009
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Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence
(with Adam Looney and Kory Kroft)
American Economic Review 99(4): 1145-1177, Sep. 2009
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Moral Hazard vs. Liquidity and Optimal Unemployment Insurance
Journal of Political Economy, 116(2): 173-234, 2008.
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Cash-on-Hand and Competing Models of Intertemporal Behavior: New Evidence from the Labor Market
(with David Card and Andrea Weber), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122(4): 1511-1560, 2007.
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Interest Rates, Irreversibility, and Backward-Bending Investment
Review of Economic Studies, 74(1): 67-91, 2007
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Consumption
Commitments and Risk Preferences
(with Adam Szeidl),
Quarterly Journal of Economics,
122(2): 831-877, 2007
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The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion: Leaving the Unemployment System or Starting a New Job?
(with David Card and Andrea Weber), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 97:113-118, 2007.
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The Effects of Taxes on Market Responses to Dividend Announcements and Payments: What Can We Learn from the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut?
(with Joseph Rosenberg and Emmanuel Saez), in eds. A. Auerbach, J. Hines, and J. Slemrod
Taxing Corporate Income in the 21st Century, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1-33, 2007
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Income Risk and the Benefits of Social Insurance: Evidence from Indonesia and the United States
(with Adam Looney), in eds. T. Ito and A. Rose, Fiscal Policy and Management in East Asia: NBER East Asia Seminar on Economics 16, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2007
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A General Formula for the Optimal Level of Social Insurance
Journal of Public Economics, 90: 1879-1901, 2006
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Consumption Smoothing and the Welfare Consequences of Social Insurance in Developing Economies
(with Adam Looney), Journal of Public Economics, 90: 2351-2356, 2006
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The Effects of the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut on Corporate Behavior: Interpreting the Evidence
(with Emmanuel Saez), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 96: 124-129, 2006
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A New Method of Estimating Risk Aversion
American Economic Review, 96(5), 1821-1834, December 2006
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Dividend Taxes and Corporate Behavior: Evidence from the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut
(with Emmanuel Saez), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120(3): 791-833, 2005.
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