I had a very fruitful & enjoyable visit to the #IAPR where I discussed how to estimate the #TaxGap using Administrative Microdata & #ML with officials from the Revenue Authority. Thanks to the Tax Gap & Analysis Depts. for the hospitality! #TARC @fundacioieb.bsky.social @bsebarcelona.bsky.social

Thanks to #A.Alexopoulos and the #AUEB for having me presenting our work with #C.Kotsogiannis, #JM.Durán, and #A.Esteller “Wealth Tax Enforcement: The Role of Tax and Institutional Design.” Great feedback and discussion from the audience! #TARC @bsebarcelona.bsky.social @fundacioieb.bsky.social

How lasting are the career costs of motherhood? At this week’s #BellaterraAppliedSeminar Erik Plug presented new evidence from IVF treatments, showing that women’s earnings recover over time, challenging the idea of a persistent child penalty @bsebarcelona.bsky.social #Labor #GenderEconomics

At this week's #BellaterraAppliedSeminar @prottoyakbar.bsky.social presented “Drivers of habit: Evidence of persistence from neighborhood moves” fascinating paper shedding light on the persistent role of early environmental exposure in shaping long-term habits and choices @bsebarcelona.bsky.social

📢 Today Manuel Arellano, visiting IAE/UFAE @bsebarcelona.bsky.social, delivered a seminar on "Nonlinear Micro Income Processes with Macro Shocks", a fascinating look at how aggregate and idiosyncratic shocks shape individual income dynamics and household risk over the business cycle

How does sexual harassment shape women’s academic careers? At today’s #BellaterraAppliedSeminar, @johannarickne.bsky.social kicks off the series with a fascinating analysis revealing how toxic environments hinder women’s progress and distort meritocracy. @bsebarcelona.bsky.social #GenderEconomics

Thanks to #PTommasino #MRomanelli & #MTasso for organizing the Workshop on Public Finance at the Banca d'Italia. Glad to present our paper w/ #JMDuran #AEsteller and #CKotsogiannis — and grateful to #AndrewHaughwout for an insightful discussion! @fundacioieb.bsky.social

Thanks to the organizers of the 2nd #Irish #PublicEconomics #Workshop #IPEW2025 at the @centralbankireland.bsky.social for putting together an outstanding programme (& for having me present our paper w/ #JMDuran #AEsteller and #CKotsogiannis. Very productive event! 👉 publiceconomics.ie/workshop/

Excited to co-edit this @jotajournal.bsky.social Special Issue with #EvangeliaChalioti & #ChristosKotsogiannis! 🚀 Exploring how #AI is reshaping #TaxSystems — from #TaxAudits & #Compliance to #Policy & #TaxpayerServices. 📝 Deadline: Jan 16, 2026 More info here 👉: jota.website/jota/announc...

Two days of rich discussion at the @taxobservatory.bsky.social - @fundacioieb.bsky.social Workshop on the #Economics of #Taxation (co-org with @manonf.bsky.social @dforemny.bsky.social @sofiaballadares.bsky.social @pnicolaides.bsky.social @gabrielzucman.bsky.social) wrapped up!

We’ve concluded an excellent 2nd and final day of the Workshop on the Economics of #Taxation, jointly organised by the IEB and @taxobservatory.bsky.social, with an insightful keynote by @dinapomeranz.bsky.social#Taxation, “Raising Money for the State: Challenges of Taxation in Developing Countries”.

Day 2 of the Workshop on the Economics of Taxation kept the momentum going!⚡️ Today’s spotlight: 🏠 property taxes, 🔄 profit shifting, 💻 digitalization of tax systems, 🌍 tax spillovers, and ⚖️ growing enforcement challenges in developing countries, among other topics.

📢 Keynote Spotlight! "As enforcement capacity grows, so do efforts to engage in more intensive evasion and avoidance, particularly among large firms and richer individuals, which leads to more regressivity." 💬 @dinapomeranz.bsky.social

“Raising Money for the State: Challenges of Taxation in Developing Countries”—insightful keynote by @dinapomeranz.bsky.social at the @fundacioieb.bsky.social – @taxobservatory.bsky.social WS on #Economics of #Taxation Promise & limits of third-party trails & need for strong traditional enforcement

@mateusamaciel.bsky.social presents “Digital Highways to Development” @taxobservatory.bsky.social @fundacioieb.bsky.social WS Using Brazil’s staggered 3G/4G rollout, he shows that better mobile internet boosts economic activity—and local tax revenues. Infrastructure as a path out of the poverty trap

#JohanneSøndergaard presents “Tax Evasion and Enforcement in a Digital Economy” at the @taxobservatory.bsky.social @fundacioieb.bsky.social Audit data from Denmark shows SMEs underreport mobile transfers. Third-party data raises detection fears—but firms shift flows to spouses instead of complying.

#PedroCavalcanti presents @taxobservatory.bsky.social - @fundacioieb.bsky.social WS: “Property Taxation and Environmental Management” Decentralizing Brazil’s rural land tax boosted revenues, increased reported protected areas, supported land redistribution—property taxes as tools for sustainability

#ZhengmingLi is next presenting at the @taxobservatory.bsky.social - @fundacioieb.bsky.social Workshop: “Golden Visas and Real Estate Markets” Spain’s investor visa raised housing prices—non-EU buyers paid €9,228 more near the threshold with spillovers across the market

2nd day @taxobservatory.bsky.social bservatory.bsky.social‬ - @fundacioieb.bsky.social b.bsky.social��� WS starts w/ @isabelmico.bsky.social ‬with “The Anatomy of the Property Tax Pass-Through in Rental Markets” When property taxes go up rents go up even more Large landlords shift the full burden

Day 1 of the Workshop on the Economics of Taxation wraps up! Co-organised by the IEB and @taxobservatory.bsky.social and hosted at @ubeconomics.bsky.social, this two-day event dives into key issues in #taxation. 📷 Today’s keynote: “#Tax Incidence Anomalies” by Youssef Benzarti (UC Santa Barbara)

A fantastic Day 1 at the Workshop on the Economics of Taxation! From corporate tax & offshore wealth to inheritance, inequality & tax incidence, researchers & PhD students are diving deep into the big questions. Co-organised with @fundacioieb.bsky.social!

“Tax Incidence Anomalies” fascinating keynote by Y. Benzarti @taxobservatory.bsky.social [email protected] WS on the #Economics of #Taxation An insightful review of empirical evidence challenging key predictions of canonical tax incidence model—calling for a rethink of long-held assumptions

Eva Davoine presents at the @taxobservatory.bsky.social - @fundacioieb.bsky.social WS: “The Political Costs of Taxation” Enforcing the salt tax in early modern France led to a 20-fold rise in state–citizen conflict effects lasting until the French Revolution Tax enforcement has deep political costs

#FCapozza presents at the @taxobservatory.bsky.social - @fundacioieb.bsky.social Workshop: “Who Should Get Money?” The paper elicits the welfare weights Americans assign to others—revealing stronger support for redistribution than current U.S. policies reflect, but weaker than academic norms assume.

#E_Rubolino presents @taxobservatory.bsky.social [email protected] Workshop: The Market Externalities of Tax Evasion📉Using Italian firm-level data, paper shows evading firms harm their compliant competitors—lowering revenue, productivity, wages Fighting evasion boosts fairness & efficiency.

@jackbrusco.bsky.social presents at the @taxobservatory.bsky.social - @fundacioieb.bsky.social Workshop “Guess Who’s Evading on Dinner?” A field experiment in Italian restaurants shows producers capture all the gains from #VATevasion no price break for consumers Room for informer-based enforcement

#ElisaCasi closes the #TaxAudits session of @taxobservatory.bsky.social - @fundacioieb.bsky.social Workshop with “Lost in Information” 🌍 Global tax transparency works—but only when countries enforce it CRS led to cash repatriation only from havens with strong implementation Digital capacity matters

Next up at the @taxobservatory.bsky.social - @fundacioieb.bsky.social Workshop @chiaralac.bsky.social with “Local Governors as Tax Enforcers” the Certified Warnings Program raised declared income—and boosted mayors’ re-election chances by 8.9pp. Local tax enforcement works, politically and fiscally.

A. Ferreira starts the #TaxAudits session at the @taxobservatory.bsky.social - @fundacioieb.bsky.social Workshop “Algorithms and Bureaucrats Evidence from Tax Audit Selection in Senegal”💡Inspector-chosen audits detect more evasion than algorithm-selected—human expertise matters in data-poor settings

D. Bhering presents now @ the @taxobservatory.bsky.social - @fundacioieb.bsky.social Workshop “Equity vs Efficiency of Indirect Taxes Evidence from VAT Cut in India” A 10pp VAT cut led to full price pass-through +5pp in reported sales No evidence of relabelling—supporting redistributive VAT design

Kicking off the @taxobservatory.bsky.social- @fundacioieb.bsky.social Workshop on the Economics of Taxation! Pascal Zamorsky presents sharp evidence on spillovers of VAT cuts Evidence shows cut VAT on menstrual products, prices dropped but complementary products (like panty liners) went up 5–10%

⏰ Reminder: 1 week left to submit! The Workshop on the Economics of Taxation is calling for papers! Don't miss the chance to present your research on corporate tax, inequality, offshore wealth & more. Submission deadline: 14 March 2025 ⏳ 🔗 taxobservatory.eu/event/worksh...

🚨 Job opportunity 🚨 CUNEF's department of Economics is opening new full-time research assistant positions for the next academic year. More info here: econjobmarket.org/positions/11... (requires free login to EconJobMarket) If you want to gain experience in economics research, APPLY!

This month, we are celebrating all things #informality and #tax - an ICTD research theme led by @maxgallien.bsky.social and Vanessa van den Boogaard. Why not start by watching this interview with them both? www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxrO...

🚨 Updated paper alert! 🚨 Switzerland, the world’s most infamous tax haven, has seen a strong shift in tax compliance. How? A global crackdown on offshore tax evasion: the Automatic Exchange of Information (AEoI). 🌍💰 Here’s what I found 👇 (🧵)

❗️📢Deadline approaching! Just a few weeks left to submit your best paper to the Workshop on the Economics of Taxation, jointly organized by @taxobservatory.bsky.social & @fundacioieb.bsky.social Join us in Barcelona this June! 🌍📑 Super keynote speakers: @dinapomeranz.bsky.social & Youssef Benzarti

Don't miss the deadline!!! Just 3 days left to submit your best paper to the #BSE #SummerForum - Workshop on #PublicEconomics... Join us!!!

The CfP for the #German #Development #Economics (GDE) conference 2025 is out, hosted by #Goethe university in #Frankfurt on June 12-13 (keynote: Lori Beaman). Send us your best development papers: events.gwdg.de/e/gde2025. @heidland.bsky.social @langlotzsarah.bsky.social

1/n Excited to announce that the 'Symposium on Fiscal Capacity, Tax Compliance and Development' is out in CESifo Economic Studies @cesifo.org!🎉Huge thanks to #ChristosKotsogiannis for inviting me to co-organize this enriching effort—I learned a lot! Check out our intro here: doi.org/10.1093/cesi...

Holy forking shirt balls "Denial of a wanted abortion has both immediate and lasting effects. It increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months, mainly due to unsafe abortion procedures, and raises the likelihood of carrying the pregnancy to term by 31 p.p. "

Our paper on the effects of (failed) government policies on trust and the demand for health services (w/ D Zejcirovic and @ffernandezbazan) is out at AEJ Policy @AEAjournals ! www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

⏳ One month left to submit - we are looking forward to your paper! Scientific Chairs: Shafik Hebous and @fgerard.bsky.social + 35 committee members; Local Organizers: Amos Njuguna (USIU), @dinapomeranz.bsky.social + team; Keynotes: Rema Hanna, Niels Johannesen, Ravi Kanbur, @oyebolaoo.bsky.social .

Barcelona in June + great Public Econ?🌞📊Submit to the #PublicEconomics #Workshop (16-17 June) #BSE #SummerForum! Excited to co-organize with @MBesfamille, @ninabob.bsky.social, @pierrecboyer.bsky.social, @Amedeo_Piolatto & @silviavannutell! CfP: events.bse.eu/live/files/5... Deadline: Feb 28

Tuoretta varallisuustutkimusta esitellään Tampereella 23.-24.1. Mukana yli 30 tutkijaa eri puolilta Eurooppaa, keynote-puhujana Daniel Waldenström. Tutkimustyötä ja tilaisuutta tukee @koneensaatio.fi 🙏

📣 Call for Papers: submission deadline 14 Mar Workshop on the Economics of Taxation 🗓️ 3-4 June 📍Barcelona Topics: #CorporateTax, inequality, #OffshoreWealth & more Keynotes: @dinapomeranz.bsky.social (University of Zurich) & Youssef Benzarti (UC Santa Barbara) 👉 taxobservatory.eu/event/worksh...

Here we go again!! Together with @sergijm64.bsky.social and @cristina-belles.bsky.social we are organizing the Workshop “Policy Evaluation in Health and Labor”, as part of the BSE Summer Forum 2025! Deadline to send papers February 28!! Join us in Barcelona, June 3 & 4!! 👇👇🎉🎉

🚨The call for the 2025 #edition of the #BSE #SummerForum workshop on #DevelopmentEconomics is out (co-organised with P. Bustos, G. DeGiorgi, G. Leon and D. Yang). Send us your best papers (deadline: FEB 28) and join us in beautiful Barcelona on June 18-19. events.bse.eu/live/files/5...

Don’t forget to send your papers to the Fourth Catalan Economic Society Congress that will be held at the beautiful Building of @iec.cat in Barcelona, May 9 & 10, 2025! ‼️📍Deadline approaching: January 14th!! @lidiafarre.bsky.social

I've decided to collect my DiD materials in a single place. psantanna.com/did-resources There, you will find - 14 lectures of my comprehensive DiD course - Shorter lectures/talks I have given on DiD - My DiD R/Stata/Python packages - Some DiD checklists - DiD materials from my friends Enjoy!