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2025, Paper: "We estimate the returns to IRS audits of taxpayers across the income distri- bution. We find an additional $1 spent auditing taxpayers above the 90th income…
June 2022, Paper: "Targeting programs during childhood is the best way to increase upward economic mobility. A defining feature of the American Dream is upward mobility—the…
May 2022, Paper: "This paper outlines the case for using the Marginal Value of Public Funds (MVPF) in empirical welfare analysis. It compares the MVPF approach with more…
May 2021, Paper: "The willingness to pay for insurance captures the value of insurance against only the risk that remains when choices are observed. This article develops tools to…
January 2021, Video; "Each week five experts give their 8- minute pitch for a big question, important finding, promising policy solution, or research frontier for the next…
September 2020, Paper: "Should choice be offered in social insurance programs? The paper presents a conceptual framework that identifies the key forces determining the value of…
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice. Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Lawrence Katz, August 2019, Paper, "Low-income families in…
A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies. Nathaniel Hendren, August 2018, Paper, "We conduct a comparative welfare analysis of 133 historical policy changes over the past…
Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective. Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, March 2018, Paper, "We study the sources of racial and ethnic…
Efficient Welfare Weights. Nathaniel Hendren, October 2017, Paper, "How should we measure economic efficiency? The canonical measure is an unweighted sum of willingnesses to pay.…