Bruce Sacerdote

Nov 3, 2023 | thedartmouth.com | Bruce Sacerdote

Dartmouth students should continue participating in dialogue around tough issues. Re: College hosts two community forums to discuss Israel-Hamas WarEach morning, my inbox now fills with stories of antisemitism and islamophobia unleashed or brought to the surface by the Israel-Hamas War. The largest number of emails sent to me are public letters of justifiable outrage (usually written by people my age) over excesses, violence and threats of violence on college campuses.

Oct 30, 2023 | journals.uchicago.edu | Lucas Goodman |Katherine Lim |Bruce Sacerdote |Andrew E. Whitten

Each year, Americans spend more than 1.7 billion hours and $33 billion preparing individual tax returns, and these filing costs are regressive. To lower and redistribute the filing burden, researchers and policy makers have proposed having the Internal Revenue Service prepopulate tax returns for individuals. We evaluate this hypothetical policy using a large, nationally representative sample of returns filed for tax year 2019.