The 'increase in gig work' apparent in tax data seems to reflect a change in taxpayer reporting behavior, not an actual change in the amount of gig work happening in the economy.

New NBER paper by Andy Garin Emilie Jackson & Dmitri Koustas.

nber.org/papers/w32368

#TaxPros : Applications will be accepted through May 31 for the #IRS Advisory Council, #IRS AC. In 2025, a new subcommittee will focus on how the IRS can identify and address fairness in tax administration for historically underserved populations. ow.ly/LYJa50Rj9R3

Excited to get the revised version of this paper out!

This is still one of my favorite papers I’ve worked on, which combines rich descriptives, theory, and causal reduced form analysis to help resolve some important puzzles in measured self-employment trends

The increased share of reporting self-employment in US tax data post-2000 is not due to the rise of platform gig work. Rather, more taxpayers report self earnings to benefit from the Earned Income Tax Credit, from Andy Garin, Emilie Jackson, and Dmitri Koustas nber.org/papers/w32368

I'm disappointed to see that IMF took the data we shared with them and are now using it without citing us. We produced the statistics they were interested in based on this WP: osf.io/preprints/soca… . Nathan Lane Emily Oehlsen Verónica C Pérez

As I wrote on Tuesday, the *most* antisemitic thing happening on college campuses right now is the fact that Republicans have goaded college presidents, who now fear for their jobs, into joining the GOP in using Jews as a political weapon. puck.news/newsletter_con…

China's government is censoring what videos Americans can post on TikTok.

New NÉBER JÁNOS wp w/ Colleen Carey and Michael Daly uses #Medicare claims and CMS #OpenPayments Data to study effect of #cancer drug marketing payments to docs.

Special thanks to Aaron Mitchell for helpful insights!

UW School of Pharmacy #UWCHOICE Health Economics & Policy at Cornell

Stop giving attention to that idiot who thinks we don’t need the word “monotonic” becuase we can say “keeps going the way it’s going” every time instead

Started a new gig as Deputy Chief at the National Employment Law Project, and we’re hiring another — this one Research focused.

Dream job for the right person — high-variety, high-impact work driving labor advocacy all across the country.

Wanna be my wing(wo)man? 🤞🏼

So excited to announce that @natasharsarin and Danny Yagan and I are launching @the_budget_lab at Yale Law School. Budget scoring is an incredibly important part of the policy process and our hope is to bring a new perspective, with a focus on innovation and transparency. 1/

Former Kevin McCarthy: 'I'll give you the truth why I'm not speaker. It's because one person, a member of Congress, wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17-year-old ... Did he do it or not? I don't know.'

Is cheap chicken worth it? The great Debbie Berkowitz delivers the goods on why the people who process your chicken face routine injury on the job—from carpal tunnel to amputations. Must-listen edition of Unconfined podcast. clf.jhsph.edu/unconfined-pod…

On the heels of California’s new $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers, my co-author Max Risch of Carnegie Mellon University and I are posting our new working paper on the impact of minimum wage increases on independent businesses. [1/14]
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not an RCT so obviously can’t claim causality. If anything it’s probably bookings causing the eclipse

Lately in the NBERs: A fascinating study of WWII-era U.S. government decisions to distribute factories outside industrial centers found that kids born near one earned more as adults, likely because of the availability of better-paying manufacturing jobs. nber.org/papers/w32265

Why do we dislike inflation?

🚨New paper for The Brookings Institution revisits this long-standing question, already asked by Robert J Shiller in 1997, with current data and survey methods. Some key findings:🧵 1/10
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Free to read for a limited time! 'A Check for Rational Inattention' by Greg Howard at journals.uchicago.edu/stoken/default….
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