Income taxes are typically set to raise revenues and redistribute income at the lowest possible efficiency costs, which … result from the distortions in individual behaviors that taxes entail. Individuals can respond along many margins, such as … labor supply, tax avoidance and evasion, and geographic mobility. But one margin that taxes may affect -- innovation -- is …

use to think about income and estate taxes. To that end, I run large-scale online surveys and experiments on … to taxes: efficiency effects, distributional implications, and fairness considerations. But they also elicit broader … concerns that could influence policy views, such as misperceptions, views of government, perceived spillovers from taxes, and …

key policy goals with subsidies as opposed to using taxes to raise the price of pollution-related activities. In …