Commentary

Popular writing

• Don’t Fear the Inheritocracy (with Eric Zwick), The Economist, By Invitation, September 16, 2026
• Americans Don’t Understand Who’s Rich (with Eric Zwick), The Atlantic, September 14, 2026
• The American Dream Is Alive. And It’s Minting Millionaires (with Eric Zwick), The Wall Street Journal, September 4, 2026
• Inside the Lives of the Main Street Millionaires (with Eric Zwick), Chicago Booth Review, September 2026
• Trump’s Capital Gains Tax Cut Would Be More Expensive Than ExpectedFortune, October 3, 2020
• A Modest Tax Reform Proposal to Roll Back Federal Tax Policy to 1997 (with Eric Zwick), Vision 2020, Washington Center for Equitable Growth, February 18, 2020
• Who Benefits from Corporate Tax Cuts? Evidence from Local US Labour MarketsMicroeconomic Insights, November 2, 2017
• Do Not Abolish the Corporate TaxThe Washington Post, Wonkblog, January 21, 2014
• Labs of Democracy and Today’s Fiscal Policy DebatesThe New York Times, Economix, February 28, 2013
• The Growing Burden of Payroll TaxesThe New York Times, Economix, November 28, 2012
• Tax Cuts for Job Creators (with Laura Tyson), The New York Times, Economix, October 19, 2012

Eric Zwick and I also write about wealth, business owners, and tax policy at The Everywhere Millionaire on Substack.

Discussions

• Social Security Trends in Inequality by Catherine, Miller, and Sarin. BYU Red Rock Conference, September 2020.
• Who Values Human Capitalists’ Human Capital? Healthcare Spending and Physician Earnings by Gottlieb, Polyakova, Rinz, Shiplett, and Udalova. NBER Summer Institute, Health Care, July 2020.
• Sources of U.S. Wealth Inequality: Past, Present, and Future by Hubmer, Krusell, and Smith. NBER Macroeconomics Annual, April 2020. SlidesWritten Discussion
• Taxation and Innovation in the 20th Century by Akcigit, Grigsby, Nicholas, and Stantcheva. AEA Meetings, January 2020.
• Property Taxation, Housing, and Local Labor Markets: Evidence from German Municipalities by Löffler and Siegloch. NBER Summer Institute, Urban and Real Estate, July 2018.
• More COPS, Less Crime by Mello. AEA Meetings, January 2018.
• Capital Tax Incidence and Inequality. University of Chicago Harris School lecture and discussion on tax incidence and the income distribution, May 2017.
• The Impact of Consumer Credit Access on Employment, Earnings, and Entrepreneurship by Herkenhoff, Phillips, and Cohen-Cole. Washington Center for Equitable Growth Conference, September 2016.
• To Cut or Not to Cut? On the Impact of Corporate Taxes on Employment and Income by Ljungqvist and Smolyansky. NBER Conference on State Business Taxation, May 2016.
• Property Taxation, Local Labor Markets, and Rental Housing by Löffler and Siegloch. ZEW, 2014.
• The Business Investment Response to the Domestic Production Activities Deduction by Ohrn. National Tax Association, 2014.