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2503: Estimating the Welfare Cost of Labor Supply Frictions

Katy Bergstrom, William Dodds, Nicholas Lacoste and Juan Rios

2502: Income Redistribution Around the Globe: Determinants and Mechanisms

Ali Enami and Nora Lustig

2501: The Distributional Impact of Inflation in Pakistan: A Case Study of a New Price Focused Microsimulation Framework, PRICES

Cathal O'Donoghue, Beenish Amjad, Jules Linden, Nora Lustig, Denisa Sologon and Yang Wang

2413: Tax Compliance, Social Norms, and Influencers

James Alm, Jay Soled and Kathleen Thomas

2412: Do "Birds of a Feather Flock Together?" Gender Differences in Decision-making Homophily of Friendships

James Alm, Weizheng Lai, Xun Li and Peiwen Yuan

2411: How Does the Price of College Affect Major Choice?

Emily E. Cook and Ruipu Gao

2410: Structural Transformation and Spatial Convergence Across Countries

Alberto Rivera-Padilla

2409: Education Quality, Income Inequality, and Female Labor Force Participation in Brazil

John H.Y. Edwards

2408: A General Theory of Inverse Welfare Functions

Katy Bergstrom and William Dodds

2407: Early Life Circumstance and Adult Psychological Well-being

Kerui Geng

2406: The effect of ACA Marketplace subsidies on residential mortgage applications and originations

Fanyu Liu and Kerui Geng

2405: Trust in Government in a Changing World: Shocks, Tax Evasion, and Economic Growth

James Alm and Raul Barreto

2404: Tax Compliance, Technology, Trust, and Inequality in a Post-Pandemic World

James Alm

2403: Do We Have The Tools For Achieving Distributive Tax Justice?

James Alm

2402: Fiscal Policy, Income Redistribution, and Poverty Reduction in Latin America

Nora Lustig, Valentina Martinez Pabon and Carola Pessino

2401: Seventy-five years of measuring income inequality in Latin America

Facundo Alvaredo, François Bourguignon, Francisco Ferreira and Nora Lustig

2308: A General Theory of Inverse Welfare Functions

Katy Bergstrom and William Dodds

2307: NUDGES, BOOSTS, AND SLUDGE: USING NEW BEHAVIORAL APPROACHES TO IMPROVE TAX COMPLIANCE

James Alm, Lilith Burgstaller, Arrita Domi, Amanda Marz and Matthias Kasper

2305: REVISING FORM 1040 FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

James Alm, Jay Soled and Kathleen Thomas

2304: RACE, ETHNICITY, AND TAXATION OF THE FAMILY: THE MANY SHADES OF THE MARRIAGE PENALTY/BONUS

James Alm, Sebastian Leguizamon and Susane Leguizamon

2303: Do opportunity zones create opportunities? The impact of opportunity zones on real estate prices

James Alm, Trey Dronyk-Trosper and Sean Larkin

2302: MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR TAX QUESTIONS

James Alm, Jay Soled and Kathleen Thomas

2301: IS A BONANZA OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE GIFTS ON THE HORIZON?

Jay Soled and James Alm

2210: Declaring income versus declaring taxes in tax compliance experiments: Does the design of laboratory experiments affect the results?

Stephan Muehlbacher, Andre Hartmann, Erich Kirchler and James Alm

2209: Can ethics change? Enforcement and its effects on taxpayer compliance

James Alm, Matthias Kasper and Erich Kirchler

2208: Devising Administrative Approaches for Improving Tax Compliance

James Alm

2207: Using behavioural economics to understand tax compliance

James Alm and Matthias Kasper

2206: The Impact of COVID-19 on Living Standards: Addressing the Challenges of Nowcasting Unprecedented Macroeconomic Shocks with Scant Data and Uncharted Economic Behavior

Nora Lustig, Valentina Pabon, Federico Sanz and Stephen Younger

2205: Universal Basic Income, Taxes, and the Poor

Nora Lustig and Valentina Pabon

2204: How Accurate is the Kakwani Index in Predicting Whether a Tax or a Transfer is Equalizing? An Empirical Analysis

Ali Enami, Patricio Larroulet and Nora Lustig

2203: Trust, the Pandemic, and Public Policies

James Alm

2202: Do State SNAP Policies Influence Program Participation among Seniors?

Jordan Jones, Charles Courtemanche, Augustine Denteh, James Marton and Rusty Tchernis

2201: Who Increases Emergency Department Use? New Insights from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment

Augustine Denteh and Helge Liebert

2120: Competing Campuses: Equilibrium Prices, Admissions, and Undergraduate Programs in US Higher Education

Emily Cook

2119: Housing Market Regulations and Strategic Divorce Propensity in China

James Alm, Weizheng Lai and Xun Li

2118: Does the “bomb crater” effect really exist? Evidence from the laboratory

Matthias Kasper and James Alm

2117: Using a natural experiment in the taxicab industry to analyze the effects of third-party income reporting

Bibek Adhikari, James Alm, Brett Collins, Michael Sebastiani and Eleanor Wilking

2116: Small Business Tax Compliance under Third-party Reporting

Bibek Adhikari, James Alm and Timothy F. Harris

2115: Tax Amnesties, Recidivism, and the Need for Reform

James Alm and Jay A. Soled

2114: What Drivers Road Infrastructure Spending?

James Alm and Trey Dronyk-Trosper

2113: Experiments on the Fly

Aleksandr Alekseev, James Alm, Vjollca Sadiraj and David L. Sjoquist

2112: Does relative age at the onset of compulsory education affects the speed and quality of one’s transition from school to work?

Luca Fumarco, Alessandro Vandromme, Levi Halewyck, Eline Moens and Stijn Baert

2111: Social Metacognition: A Correlational Device for Strategic Interactions

Chiara Scarampi, Richard Fairchild, Luca Fumarco, Alberto Palermo and Neal Hinvest

2110: Winmail3: An automated email package with an application to correspondence audit tests

Luca Fumarco, S. Michael Gaddis and Iain Snoddy

2109: More goals, fewer babies? On national teams’ performance and birth rates

Luca Fumarco and Francesco Principe

2108: Universal Basic Income Programs: How Much Would Taxes Need to Rise? Evidence for Brazil, Chile, India, Russia, and South Africa

Ali Enami, Ugo Gentilini, Patricio Larroulet, Nora Lustig, Emma Monsalve, Siyu Quan and Iamele Rigolini

2107: Employees’ Performance Variation over Fixed-Term Contracts - Evidence from the National Hockey League

Luca Furmaco, N. Longley, A. Palermo and Giambattista Rossi

2106: Are Budget Neutral Income Floors Fiscally Viable in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Nora Lustig, Jon Jellema and Valentina Martinez Pabon

2105: The Pink Tide and Inequality in Latin America

German Feierherd, Patricio Larroulet, Wei Long and Nora Lustig

2104: Intergenerational transmission of lockdown consequences: Prognosis of the longer-run persistence of COVID-19 in Latin America

Guido Neidhöfer, Nora Lustig and Mariano Tommasi