Lucas Goodman

Aug 13, 2024 | aei.org | Sita Slavov |Adam Bloomfield |Lucas Goodman |Manita Rao

By Adam Bloomfield, Lucas Goodman, Manita Rao, and Sita SlavovAbstractSeveral states have recently attempted to boost retirement saving by adopting “auto-IRA” policies that require employers not currently offering an employer-sponsored retirement plan (ESRP) to either (1) establish an ESRP or (2) enroll employees in state-facilitated Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs).

Aug 9, 2024 | nber.org | Adam Bloomfield |Lucas Goodman |Manita Rao |Sita Slavov

Skip to main content We are grateful to Kim Olson, Christine Cheng, and Angela Antonelli for helpful input regarding policy details. This research was conducted while Goodman was an employee at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or the official positions of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, AARP, FDIC, or the U.S. Government.

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.