Tax Preparers, Refund Anticipation Products, and EITC Noncompliance

This work examines whether the availability of tax refund anticipation products is associated with higher non-compliance rates for the Earned Income Tax Credit.

Capturing more than poverty: Free & reduced-price lunches and income

This paper investigates whether free and reduced-price lunch designations capture students’ household income and educational disadvantage.

Correctional Facility and Inmate Locations: Status Patterns

This paper informs discussion about Census Bureau residence criteria by describing the urban and rural distribution of inmates and correctional facilities.

Labor Market Effects of the Affordable Care Act

This paper investigates the extent to which residents in states that declined to raise Medicaid income eligibility cutoffs increased their earnings.

Is Subsidized Childcare Associated with Lower Risk of Grade Retention?

Investigates whether children's experience of subsidized childcare is associated with a lower subsequent likelihood of being held back in grades K-12.

Longitudinal Environmental Inequality and Environmental Gentrification

Analyzes longitudinal dimensions of environmental inequality by examining the distribution of changes in individual pollution exposure.

The Long-term Effects of Environmental Inequality At Birth

Examines the effect of pollution exposure on several intermediate determinants of adult wages including educational attainment and incarceration.

High Growth Young Firms: Contribution to Job, Output & Productivity

Recent research shows that the job creating prowess of small firms in the U.S. is better attributed to startups and young firms that are small.

Declining Dynamism, Allocative Efficiency & Productivity Slowdown

Evidence suggests that the decline in dynamism is reason for concern and sheds light on debates about the causes of slowing productivity growth.

Racial Disparity in an Era of Increasing Income Inequality

Documents income inequality and mobility trends from 2000 to 2014 using the universe of tax filers matched to individual-level race and ethnicity data.