26 Research Items Found
August 19, 2021
The authors explore a causal relationship between the 2017 tax reform and a decline in wealth inequality.
May 05, 2021
Why have consumer credit scores gone up during the pandemic? In this brief, public finance fellow Joyce Beebe discusses the …
February 25, 2021
In this brief, public finance fellow Jorge Barro explains some of the long-term economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and …
November 30, 2020
While recent headlines announce that President Biden's proposed budget will drive the national debt past WWII levels, fellow Jorge Barro …
November 04, 2020
Public finance fellow Jorge Barro analyzes Federal Reserve survey data released in September 2020 that shows that U.S. wealth inequality …
John W. Diamond, Ph.D., is the Edward A. and Hermena Hancock Kelly Fellow in Public Finance and director of the Center for Public Finance at the Baker Institute, an adjunct professor of economics at Rice University and CEO of Tax …
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 …
