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Podcast Sep 3, 2024

Promises Delivered? The Economic Effects of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

Tess Vigeland and Eric Zwick
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, a landmark piece of tax legislation from the first year of the...
Topics: Tax & Budget
Research Briefs·May 30, 2024

Bourbon Reforms and State Capacity in the Spanish Empire

Giorgio Chiovelli, Leopoldo Fergusson, Luis Martínez, Juan David Torres, and Felipe Valencia Caicedo
The Spanish colonial empire in Latin America offers insights into the effects of state formation on economic development and political...
Topics: Tax & Budget
Research Briefs·May 23, 2024

Child Tax Benefits and Labor Supply: Evidence from California

Jacob Goldin, Tatiana Homonoff, Neel A. Lal, Ithai Lurie, and Katherine Michelmore
Removing the work requirement from the California child tax credit did not cause a significant number of mothers to stop...
Topics: Tax & Budget
Research Briefs·Mar 12, 2024

Tax Policy and Investment in a Global Economy

Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Matthew Smith, Owen M. Zidar, and Eric Zwick
While the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act increased domestic investments of US-based multinational corporations, this extra revenue was offset by...
Topics: Tax & Budget
Research Briefs·Apr 27, 2023

The Short-Term Labor Supply Response to the Expanded Child Tax Credit

Brandon Enriquez, Damon Jones, and Ernest V. Tedeschi
The COVID-era expansion of the Child Tax Credit, which temporarily increased the amount of the benefit and removed its work...
Topics: Tax & Budget
Research Briefs·Aug 17, 2021

The Macroeconomics of the Greek Depression

Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Loukas Karabarbounis, and Rohan Kekre
The economic news in 2007 and 2008 from Greece was alarming and sent ripples across Europe and the Atlantic. After...
Topics: Tax & Budget
Research Briefs·May 4, 2021

Tax Planning Knowledge Diffusion via the Labor Market

US corporations go to great lengths to avoid paying taxes, and some of those avoidance schemes—like moving profits to offshore...
Topics: Employment & Wages, Tax & Budget
Research Briefs·Jun 25, 2020

Did the Corporate Tax Breaks in the CARES Act Benefit Firms Most Impacted by COVID-19?

John Gallemore, Stephan Hollander, and Martin Jacob
An analysis of SEC filings suggests that the corporate tax breaks in the CARES Act benefitted firms with big stock...
Topics: COVID-19, Tax & Budget
Insight·Apr 18, 2019

How Manufacture and Trade of Washing Machines and Parts Gives a Clear Example of Trade Restrictions

View US washing machine imports and Korean washing machine part exports by country.
Topics: Industrial Organization, Tax & Budget