This was a huge year-long undertaking by the tireless researchers at EU Tax Observatory and our biggest data launch ever: a one stop shop for data on tax rates, profit shifting and offshore wealth

Common misconceptions around regressions with interactions are causing us to systematically over-detect treatment effects! Especially in multi-armed RCTs!!

Amazing work by Mauricio Romero Karthik Muralidharan and Kaspar Wüthrich

Published in Restat & full text here: mauricio-romero.com/pdfs/papers/Fa…

New Institute for Fiscal Studies report out today by David Sturrock and me, looking at #inheritancetax , which has been in the news a bit lately

A short 🧵 on what we find

SPOILER: Inheritance tax is useful, but not for the reason you think…

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🎉The German Economic Association’s (Verein für Socialpolitik) most prestigious academic award, conferred annually to the best economist under age 45 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, goes to our very own David Dorn. Congratulations!

Using a large tax reform affecting a subset of migrants to the UK, Arun Advani David Burgherr & Andy Summers find a relatively modest & precisely estimated emigration response of 0.26pp increase in emigration for 1% decline in net of tax rate. newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/res…

Time to report that our work with Xavier Jaravel and Jann Spiess on diff-in-diff imputation has recently been accepted The Review of Economic Studies!

Final draft of 'Revisiting Event Study Designs: Robust and Efficient Estimation' here: arxiv.org/abs/2108.12419

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Read the new analysis by Arun Advani Andy Summers Anna Powell-Smith and César Poux, which finds significant flaws in laws meant to prevent oligarchs from hiding their wealth.

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The LSE/Cambridge/Oxford/UCL/Warwick econ mentoring programme is back againfor our 4th year. We invite anyone from under-represented backgrounds who wants to pursue a PhD in economics to apply! #EconTwitter (1/N)

How much tax do the rich really pay? Arun Advani (@WarwickEcon) Andy Summers and Helen Hughson utilise data on UK taxpayers to highlight inequality in effective average tax rates and the impact of lower rates on tax revenue.
Read their thoughts below: doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/…

Working on the IO or macro or labor of market power? Consider submitting your work/coming to the Oct 6-7 UZH Econ Market Power Workshop. Keynotes from Nathan Miller and Tommaso Valletti. Submission deadline today! (I'm late as ever😳) sites.google.com/view/marketpow…

The new OxRep, ‘Taxing the Rich (more)’ has just been launched!

Kicking off the PhD in style. Super excited to get started!

This but unironically

This is really important from Anna Powell-Smith, Arun Advani & Andy Summers

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Just released a new working paper on mental health in European Economics Departments joint w. Clara Sievert, Valentin Bolotnyy🇺🇸🇺🇦, and Paul Barreira. Follow this thread for an overview of our research and key findings.

Please, read the full working paper here: docs.iza.org/dp16309.pdf

Dan Neidle This is based on some of our work using tax records. Will differ across time & this isn't modelling future income profiles... but based on data for the 1963 cohort, about 3 times as many were in TOP 1% (higher than 100k) at some point than in a year

We use admin data from Denmark and exploit variation in the timing of pill initiation in an event study design. One quarter after the first pill prescription, the prob of a psychiatric visit and a depression diagnosis ⬆️ by 17% and 40%. The prob of antidepressant use⬆️ by 65%.