Assistant Professor of Business Econ and Public Policy @Wharton. Tax policy, inequality, behavioral economics. I have mostly switched to “the other place”.
Joined June 2009
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Benjamin Lockwood retweeted
I'm thrilled to be launching Econvitals today. It's been the main way in which I have been tracking and understanding the economy over the last several months. And I decided I might as well share it with all of you--for free.
Has a combo of website, email lists & social media.
Benjamin Lockwood retweeted
Happy 4th of July everyone.
I came here as a kid at 9 years old, not knowing a single word of english, lived on food stamps in section 8 housing. My parents cleaned houses while my sister and I collected cans for recycling. Our clothing was all donated and our furniture was things we found on the curb (here I am in front of our "tv set", the broken one being used as a stand for the little working b/w one).
But this country gave us an opportunity--to learn, to work hard and earn something for it. "Grateful" does not begin to cover it. I owe this country and its people everything I have.
Thank you America, happy 250 to the idea.
Benjamin Lockwood retweeted
This is a fantastic and rare (!) example of authors of a published paper and the author of a comment on that paper working together to fix the scientific record. Kudos to all involved. This is not easy, even with good faith all around. I hope to see the AER follow suit before too long. @davidroodman @AEAJournals @I4Replication
Benjamin Lockwood retweeted
Dear followers,
after witnessing the deterioration of Twitter/X, I have just created an account on Bluesky. My handle there is @DAcemogluMIT.bsky.social
I might try to post a few things on both platforms for a while, but I'm hoping to slowly transition to Bluesky over time.
Benjamin Lockwood retweeted
Looking for a predoc position for next year? I’m hiring!
Come work with me at @Wharton BEPP. You will work on a variety of topics related to upward mobility, local labor markets, migration, and the effectiveness of government policy. Apply by May 31:
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Benjamin Lockwood retweeted
📢Just *4 more days* to apply to be a pre-doctoral researcher at Business Economics and Public Policy at @Wharton @Penn! The deadline is December 1. Your application can be general interest or specify one of the fields below📢👇
More information here:
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Business Economics and Public Policy at @Wharton @Penn is hiring 4 pre-doctoral researchers, in:
1) energy and the environment
2) public economics
3) industrial organization
4) behavioral and experimental economics
More info here:
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Benjamin Lockwood retweeted
Over 400 Economists agree! Put simply, the Child Tax Credit expansion is good policy and we should make it permanent!
Thank you to everyone who signed.
You can find the final letter with list of signers here:
hilaryhoynes.com/s/Economist…
#EconTwitter
Congress is now considering whether to extend the Child Tax Credit expansion. If you are an economist, please consider signing this open letter to Congress, highlighting the enormous social value this policy would generate. Sign here (by COB Tues): forms.gle/sst1P54EJ5f2SEgF9
Celebrate tax day by [rushing to submit your return and then] submitting your public finance papers for the National Tax Association conference in November! xitter.cf/and_joy_/status/137329…
Submit your public finance papers to the @NatlTax Association Conference. @bblockwood and I are looking forward to reading about how to design tax systems.
Benjamin Lockwood retweeted
Behavioral economists via text message: “Did you know that most other ships have already gotten their act together”
Benjamin Lockwood retweeted
Listen up folks: By “Major Biden tax hikes” I mean “significant” or “consequential” — not that Major Biden, who is a dog rather than a tax collector, will be deciding tax rates
Benjamin Lockwood retweeted
Submit your public finance papers to the @NatlTax Association Conference. @bblockwood and I are looking forward to reading about how to design tax systems.
I am honored to be serving as co-chair of the 2021 @NatlTax Association Conference with @jacobsgoldin and Alex Rees-Jones in Detroit Nov 18-20. This year's theme is "Improving the US Safety Net". Call for papers is open now thru May 31. Please submit!
ntanet.org/2021/03/114th-ann…
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Spread the word! Please retweet!
The economics dep't at @Wharton, and specifically @femonomics, #ShingYiWang, @bblockwood and I, are hiring a full-time predoctoral research fellow. Start date: July 1. @econ_ra #EconTwitter
For more details & to apply: bit.ly/3trJB9z
Benjamin Lockwood retweeted
And now for something different:
A paper on how to think about the optimal size of world population from the perspective of souls who go through multiple incarnations.
Sounds crazy, you say? Hear me out.
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Benjamin Lockwood retweeted
Hard agree. It's shameful how the vaxx registration has rolled out.
However...failures in gov IT prevent people from accessing critical gov services EVERY DAY (e.g. SNAP, unemployment). The "scandal" isn't that this happened with vaxx rollout. The scandal is that it's so common.
The federal government learned a lot from the HealthCare.gov fiasco. State governments (and DC) — not so much.
It's been obvious for a year we were going to need vaccine sign-up sites that worked. It's a scandal that so little was done, and so many are failing.
Benjamin Lockwood retweeted
Monday 22nd at 1pm EST (19:00 Paris time), @bblockwood will present "The Optimal Taxation of Lotteries: Who P(l)ays and Who Wins?" joint with Hunt Allcott and @DTaubinsky.
Register to the seminar mailing list here: sites.google.com/view/welfar…
Interesting back-and-forth going on about the Romney child allowance proposal and its employment effects: in particular Scott Winship’s AEI post worries that income effects will reduce labor supply among low-income families. Time for some tax theory... 1/n aei.org/poverty-studies/the-…
What matters is the sum of these two effects. So, Lesson 2: if you have an internality-offsetting EITC (Lesson 1!) these two things sum to ~0, so there is no distortion from an income transfer, *even if there is an income effect on labor supply*. 10/n