Brookings Institution

• Do wage subsidies increase labor force participation? Evidence from around the world (May 23, 2025)

  • Summarizes evidence from dozens of countries that EITC-style wage subsidies consistently increase labor supply

• The Earned Income Tax Credit at 50: Past, present, and future (June 3, 2025)

  • Panel discussion (video)

  • Short summary

  • Detailed summary and program details

• Sun Bucks: A new chapter in the fight against child hunger (June 26, 2025)

  • The new Summer EBT program, branded “Sun Bucks,” provides $40 per month in grocery benefits to around 31 million low-income children each summer and represents a cost-effective, evidence-backed strategy to reduce child hunger, support families, boost local economies, and complement existing meal programs—yet its full potential remains unrealized as some states decline to participate.

R Street Institute

• Designing a Better Child Tax Credit (Feb 13, 2023)
  Outlines three CTC reform options—targeting workers only, universal, or a hybrid—and shows how each would impact child poverty, parental employment, and fiscal cost

  • Press release

  • Executive Summary

  • Full Paper

• Summarizing the Benefits of the 2021 CTC Expansion (Nov 13, 2024)

  • Reviews data showing the temporary 2021 CTC significantly reduced child poverty, improved household security, and bolstered mental health

• Reforming the Child Tax Credit: Family Security Act (Dec 5, 2024)

  • Evaluates the Romney-proposed Family Security Act’s expanded child tax credit and prenatal benefits, weighing its effects on family support, work participation, and policy sustainability; notes that the larger CTC would be partly paid for by reducing the EITC, resulting in net gains primarily for upper-middle income families

• How Does the Child Tax Credit Impact Employment? (Jan 13, 2025)

  • Explores how expansions of the EITC and CTC affect labor supply through short‑ and long‑term incentive mechanisms, namely via income and substitution effects

• Trump’s Proposed $5,000 Child Tax Credit (Feb 20, 2025)

  • Analyzes alternate ways policymakers could create a $5,000 CTC—alternate phase‑in and phase‑out rates, universality vs. earnings‑based—and highlights the trade‑offs between poverty relief, workforce incentives, and cost

White House Council of Economic Advisers (2023-24)

• I served as a senior economist in the Council of Economic Advisers from August 2023 to August 2024 and the following are a few notable things I worked on:

• Chapter 4 of the 2024 Economic Report to the President: Increasing the Supply of Affordable Housing: Economic Insights and Federal Policy Solutions

• Did Stabilization Funds Help Mothers Get Back to Work After the COVID-19 Recession? (Working Paper)

• Racial Disparities in Government Contracting (Issue Brief)

• Racial Discrimination in Contemporary America (Issue Brief prepared for the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act)

• Child Care is Infrastructure: Evidence from Universal Pre-K (Issue Brief)

• Impacts of the Expiration of Federal Child Care Stabilization Funding and the Mitigating Effects of State-Level Stopgap Funding (Issue Brief)

• Reforming Permitting Requirements to Lower the Cost of Building New Housing and Increase Housing Affordability (blog)

• The Anti-Poverty and Income-Boosting Impacts of the Enhanced CTC (blog)

• American Rescue Plan’s Child Care Stabilization Funds Stabilized the Industry While Helping Mothers Return to Work (blog)

• The 2022 Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Reports (blog)