Dans Bullshit Jobs, le regretté David Graeber soutient une thèse qui a rencontré un large
écho: une part croissante et élevée des emplois n'a ni sens ni utilité et rend malades celles …

We characterize the factors that determine who becomes an inventor in the United States,
focusing on the role of inventive ability (“nature”) versus environment (“nurture”). Using …

This paper derives optimal top tax rate formulas in a model where top earners respond to
taxes through three channels: labor supply, tax avoidance, and compensation bargaining …

This article examines the labor market payoffs to different types of postsecondary education,
including field and institution of study. Instrumental variables (IV) estimation of the payoff to …

This article addresses the modern optimal tax progressivity literature, which clarifies the key
role of the behavioral response to taxation and accounts for the incomes of the superrich …

We study favoritism via hometown ties, a common source of favor exchange in China, in
fellow selection of the Chinese Academies of Sciences and Engineering. Hometown ties to …

Objective To examine the design characteristics, risk of bias, and reporting adequacy of
pivotal randomised controlled trials of cancer drugs approved by the European Medicines …

We study optimal redistribution and insurance in a life-cycle economy with private
idiosyncratic shocks. We characterize Pareto optima, show the forces determining optimal …

I study the optimal taxation of robots, other capital, and labor income. I show that it is optimal
to distort robot adoption. The robot tax (or subsidy) exploits general-equilibrium effects to …

The achievements and limitations of the classical theory of optimal labor-income taxation
based on social welfare functions are now well known. Even though utilitarianism still …