Policy Impacts

Dedicated to improving government decision-making through rigorous, standardized policy evaluation.

[Policy Impacts @PolicyImpacts]

Today, Policy Impacts released 🚨new work🚨 on the returns to IRS audits across the income distribution.

The paper finds that $1 spend auditing high-income taxpayers returns more than $12 in revenue: 1/

https://t.co/ab37wKWhIs

[Ben Sprung-Keyser @bsprungkeyser]

Looking for a predoc position? I’m hiring!

Come work with me at @Wharton BEPP. You will work on a variety of topics related to upward mobility, migration, and the effectiveness of government policy.

Apply by Feb 21: https://t.co/JCV7Mk4qGh

[Policy Impacts @PolicyImpacts]

Submit your short proposals by Nov 1. Describe your estimation of your causal effects and how you plan to measure the MVPF. Winners will be announced by November 30, and are expected to join us at our annual
@policyimpacts conference next summer to discuss your work.

[Policy Impacts @PolicyImpacts]

📢 Call for Proposals

Measuring the causal effect of a policy change and seeking to measure its Marginal Value of Public Funds?

We just launched the next round of @policyimpacts
Early Career Scholars Grants to support your work.

https://t.co/8kac4qvJra

[Policy Impacts @PolicyImpacts]

Receive up to $20K for untenured faculty and $10K for graduate students. Money can be used to support data, researcher time, RAs, etc.

[NBER @nberpubs]

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, @nhendren82, @rdmetcalfe, and @bsprungkeyser https://t.co/4pNUQo6L9w

[Ben Sprung-Keyser @bsprungkeyser]

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 @nhendren82:

[Nathaniel Hendren @nhendren82]

🚨*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/:

[Stefanie DeLuca @Stefanie_DeLuca]

Watching @nhendren82 on 🔥 presenting his work on IRS audits to the Senate Committee on the Budget! (Paper in the link!)

[Ben Sprung-Keyser @bsprungkeyser]

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 @PolicyImpacts

[Nathaniel Hendren @nhendren82]

🚨 Post-Doc hiring Alert 🚨

We're hiring a post-doc at @PolicyImpacts. 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:
https://t.co/YVeVuxn0OQ

[Nathaniel Hendren @nhendren82]

Interested in working with me at @policyimpacts at @MITEcon ? 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: https://t.co/97j5gpsKOY

[Policy Impacts @PolicyImpacts]

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.

https://t.co/WODJTybV0z

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

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.
https://t.co/lSxxyA4DSc

[Policy Impacts @PolicyImpacts]

For an excellent overview, check out @crampell's coverage and @zhoyoyo's data viz in the Washington Post: 3/

https://t.co/dAMuSWurCU

[Policy Impacts @PolicyImpacts]

Today, Policy Impacts released 🚨new work🚨 on the returns to IRS audits across the income distribution.

The paper finds that $1 spend auditing high-income taxpayers returns more than $12 in revenue: 1/

https://t.co/ab37wKWhIs

[Policy Impacts @PolicyImpacts]

For more on this work check out @nhendren82’s thread: 2/

https://t.co/QsiwapKRkC

[Nathaniel Hendren @nhendren82]

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/:

[Ben Sprung-Keyser @bsprungkeyser]

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 @crampell’s coverage 1/: https://t.co/myBlpkHbTH

[Nathaniel Hendren @nhendren82]

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/:

[Peter Ganong @p_ganong]

@MrBeast @MrBeast This is a great point! There's actually a whole website where economists @nhendren82 @bsprungkeyser listed all the policies like this where gov't gets more back in taxes than it pays for them (we call this MVPF of ♾) https://t.co/cLx1h7IaDN

[Robert Metcalfe @RDMetcalfe]

I'm excited to be hiring an economics pre-doc fellow next summer at @USC_Econ.

Projects include the welfare impacts of environmental and climate change policies, and the implementation and analysis of large-scale field experiments.