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Working Papers

Working Papers

  • Description: Building upon Robert Moffit’s work on income volatility, this work seeks to track Volatility in Income Subsets.

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  • Description: Unpacking subsets of income, disaggregated by race to look for recent trends in disparities.

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  • Description: Analysis of California Small Claims Courts, and expansion upon a previous thesis which shows an increase in filing fees with lower courts results in a reduction in filings, with different claims showing different elasticities.

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CODE SAMPLES

  • This code replicates basic figures found in Scott Baker, Steven Davis and Jeff Levy Journal of Monetary Economics 2022, and visualizes the EPU Index with structural breaks.

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  • Description: Evaluates Piketty, Saez, & Zucman and Auten & Splinter post-tax income estimates relative to tax data, and visualizes various structural breaks. The code uses both Python and R, and imports data from host websites.

    This project is complemented by a visual site.

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  • The line graph of wealth inequality in the U.S. from the GC Wealth Project, as depicted by various authors, presents a striking visual representation of the increasing inequality over several decades. This project is possible because of data compiled by the GC Wealth Project.

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