173 Research Items Found
October 07, 2019
Soda taxes have been proposed to help curb consumption and improve health outcomes. Fellow Joyce Beebe reviews recent attempts at …
September 30, 2019
Given the disjointed federal policy debates over paid family leave, the U.S. should allow individual states to lead the way …
September 27, 2019
Fellow Jorge Barro gave the presentation below (PDF) to the Quantitative Society for Pensions and Saving at the Huntsman School …
September 17, 2019
The results of the European Commission's decision that Ireland unlawfully issued favorable tax rulings to Apple will have broad ramifications, …
September 09, 2019
Given the uncertainty surrounding the economic effects and the poorly targeted benefits and burdens of a minimum wage, it is …
Jorge Barro, Ph.D. is a fellow in public finance at the Baker Institute. His area of research involves the development of dynamic macroeconomic models for fiscal policy evaluation. Prior to joining the Baker Institute, Barro was an economist at the …
George R. Zodrow is the Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline Chair of Economics at Rice University. He is also a Rice faculty scholar at the Baker Institute and an international research fellow at the Centre for Business Taxation at Oxford University. Zodrow …
