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Ben Sprung-Keyser

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Wharton School of Business
University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/
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Working papers

  1. Robert W. Hahn & Nathaniel Hendren & Robert D. Metcalfe & Ben Sprung-Keyser, 2024. "A Welfare Analysis of Policies Impacting Climate Change," NBER Working Papers 32728, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Ben Sprung-Keyser & Sonya Porter, 2023. "The Economic Geography of Lifecycle Human Capital Accumulation: The Competing Effects of Labor Markets and Childhood Environments," Working Papers 23-54, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
  3. William C. Boning & Nathaniel Hendren & Ben Sprung-Keyser & Ellen Stuart, 2023. "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution," NBER Working Papers 31376, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  4. Nathaniel Hendren & Ben Sprung-Keyser, 2022. "The Case for Using the MVPF in Empirical Welfare Analysis," NBER Working Papers 30029, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  5. Ben Sprung-Keyser & Nathaniel Hendren & Sonya Porter, 2022. "The Radius of Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Migration and Local Labor Markets," Working Papers 22-27, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
  6. Nathaniel Hendren & Ben Sprung-Keyser, 2019. "A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies," NBER Working Papers 26144, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

Articles

  1. William C Boning & Nathaniel Hendren & Ben Sprung-Keyser & Ellen Stuart, 2025. "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 140(1), pages 63-112.
  2. Nathaniel Hendren & Ben Sprung-Keyser, 2020. "A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 135(3), pages 1209-1318.

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  1. Nathaniel Hendren & Ben Sprung-Keyser, 2020. "A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 135(3), pages 1209-1318.

    Mentioned in:

    1. Where Governments Should Spend More
      by Steve Cecchetti and Kim Schoenholtz in Money, Banking and Financial Markets on 2020-12-09 12:53:36

Working papers

  1. Robert W. Hahn & Nathaniel Hendren & Robert D. Metcalfe & Ben Sprung-Keyser, 2024. "A Welfare Analysis of Policies Impacting Climate Change," NBER Working Papers 32728, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

    Cited by:

    1. Robert Metcalfe & Sefi Roth, 2025. "Making the Invisible Visible: The Impact of Revealing Indoor Air Pollution on Behavior and Welfare," Framed Field Experiments 00819, The Field Experiments Website.
    2. Swati Dhingra & Stephen Machin, 2025. "Citizen training and the urban waste footprint," CEP Discussion Papers dp2124, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
    3. Peter Levell & Martin O'Connell & Kate Smith, 2025. "The welfare effects of price shocks and household relief packages: evidence from an energy crisis," IFS Working Papers W25/55, Institute for Fiscal Studies.
    4. Chaurey, Ritam & Nayyar, Guarav & Sharma, Siddharth & Verhoogen, Eric, 2025. "Social Learning among Urban Manufacturing Firms: Energy-Efficient Motors in Bangladesh," IZA Discussion Papers 18183, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    5. Barreto, Yuri & Britto, Diogo & Carrillo, Bladimir & Da Mata, Daniel & Emanuel, Lucas & Sampaio, Breno, 2025. "Cisterns for Life: Climate Adaptation Policies for Water Provision and Rural Lives," IZA Discussion Papers 18250, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    6. Metcalfe, Robert & Roth, Sefi, 2025. "Making the invisible visible: the impact of revealing indoor air pollution on behavior and welfare," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 128514, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    7. Johannes Emmerling & Frank Venmans & David Reinstein & Ben Balmford, 2025. "Evaluation Summary and Metrics: "A Welfare Analysis of Policies Impacting Climate Change"," The Unjournal Evaluations 2025-21, The Unjournal.
    8. Andor, Mark Andreas & Hümmecke, Eva & Memmen, Marvin, 2024. "Präferenzen und Einstellungen zu vieldiskutierten verkehrspolitischen Maßnahmen: Ergebnisse der dritten Welle des RWI Klima-Mobilitäts-Panels aus dem Jahr 2022," RWI Materialien 169, RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung.
    9. Dalla-Zuanna, Antonio & Liu, Kai, 2025. "Using the MVPF to Allocate Treatment Under Imperfect Compliance and Supply-Side Constraints," IZA Discussion Papers 18259, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    10. Bryan Bollinger & Kenneth Gillingham & A. Justin Kirkpatrick, 2025. "Valuing Solar Subsidies," CESifo Working Paper Series 11627, CESifo.
    11. Andor, Mark A. & Dehos, Fabian T. & Gillingham, Kenneth T. & Hansteen, Sven & Tomberg, Lukas, 2025. "Public transport pricing: An evaluation of the 9-Euro ticket and an alternative policy proposal," Economics of Transportation, Elsevier, vol. 42(C).
    12. Peter Levell & Martin O'Connell & Kate Smith, 2025. "The welfare effects of price shocks and household relief packages: evidence from an energy crisis," IFS Working Papers W25/03, Institute for Fiscal Studies.
    13. Owen Kay & Michael David Ricks, 2025. "Time-Limited Subsidies: Optimal Taxation with Implications for Renewable Energy Subsidies," Working Papers 2530, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

  2. Ben Sprung-Keyser & Sonya Porter, 2023. "The Economic Geography of Lifecycle Human Capital Accumulation: The Competing Effects of Labor Markets and Childhood Environments," Working Papers 23-54, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.

    Cited by:

    1. Raj Chetty & Will Dobbie & Benjamin Goldman & Sonya R. Porter & Crystal S. Yang, 2024. "Changing Opportunity: Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Growing Class Gaps and Shrinking Race Gaps in Economic Mobility," Working Papers 24-38, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.

  3. William C. Boning & Nathaniel Hendren & Ben Sprung-Keyser & Ellen Stuart, 2023. "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution," NBER Working Papers 31376, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

    Cited by:

    1. Keshav Choudhary & Bhanu Gupta, 2025. "Watchdogs or Accomplices? The Role of Third-Party Auditors in Corporate Tax Compliance," Working Papers tax-mpg-rps-2024-04, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance.
    2. Jarkko Harju & Kaisa Kotakorpi & Tuomas Matikka & Annika Nivala, 2024. "How Do Firms Respond to Risk-based Tax Audits?," Working Papers 22, Finnish Centre of Excellence in Tax Systems Research.
    3. Kastoryano, Stephen, 2025. "The Unintended Consequences of Tax Code Complexity," IZA Discussion Papers 17722, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    4. Simon Columbus & Lars P. Feld & Matthias Kasper & Matthew D. Rablen, 2023. "Behavioural Responses to Unfair Institutions: Experimental Evidence on Rule Compliance, Norm Polarisation, and Trust," CESifo Working Paper Series 10591, CESifo.
    5. Christiansen, Tobias Gabel, 2024. "Dynamic effects of tax audits and the role of intentions," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 234(C).
    6. Jess Grana & India Lindsay & Lucia Lykke & Max McGill & Alexander McGlothlin & Leigh Nicholl & Alan Plumley, 2025. "The specific indirect effect of IRS audits," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer;International Institute of Public Finance, vol. 32(4), pages 995-1029, August.
    7. Columbus, Simon & Feld, Lars P. & Kasper, Matthias & Rablen, Matthew D., 2025. "Institutional rules and biased rule enforcement," Freiburg Discussion Papers on Constitutional Economics 25/1, Walter Eucken Institut e.V..
    8. Cowx, Mary, 2025. "Tax enforcement and R&D credits," Journal of Accounting and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 80(1).
    9. Battaglini, Marco & Guiso, Luigi & Lacava, Chiara & Miller, Douglas L. & Patacchini, Eleonora, 2025. "Refining public policies with machine learning: The case of tax auditing," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 249(PC).
    10. Guzzardi, Demetrio & Morelli, Salvatore, 2024. "A New Geography of Inequality: Top Incomes in Italian Regions and Inner Areas," SocArXiv b2yue, Center for Open Science.

  4. Nathaniel Hendren & Ben Sprung-Keyser, 2022. "The Case for Using the MVPF in Empirical Welfare Analysis," NBER Working Papers 30029, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

    Cited by:

    1. Benjamin Collier & Sabrina T. Howell & Lea Rendell, 2024. "After the Storm: How Emergency Liquidity Helps Small Businesses Following Natural Disasters," Working Papers 24-20, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
    2. Britta Rude, 2024. "Middle-run educational impacts of comprehensive early childhood interventions: evidence from a pioneer program in Chile," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 37(2), pages 1-30, June.
    3. Spencer Bastani, 2025. "The marginal value of public funds: a brief guide and application to tax policy," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer;International Institute of Public Finance, vol. 32(4), pages 919-956, August.
    4. Goetz, Alexander & Mayr, Harald & Schubert, Renate, 2024. "One thing leads to another: Evidence on the scope and persistence of behavioral spillovers," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 236(C).
    5. Christiansen, Tobias Gabel, 2024. "Dynamic effects of tax audits and the role of intentions," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 234(C).
    6. Sébastien Montpetit & Luisa Carrer & Pierre-Loup Beauregard, 2025. "A Welfare Analysis of Universal Childcare: Lessons From a Canadian Reform," CHILD Working Papers Series 128 JEL Classification: D, Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) - CCA.
    7. Almlund, Mathilde & Andersen, Torben M., 2025. "Ranking public expenditure programs," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 250(C).
    8. Katarzyna Bilicka & Michael Devereux & İrem Güçeri & Katarzyna Anna Bilicka & Michael P. Devereux & Irem Guceri, 2024. "Tax Policy, Investment and Profit Shifting," CESifo Working Paper Series 11458, CESifo.
    9. Spencer Bastani, 2023. "The Marginal Cost of Public Funds: A Brief Guide," CESifo Working Paper Series 10322, CESifo.
    10. Joaquín Herrera & Martin González-Rozada & Hernan Ruffo, 2025. "The Fiscal Costs of Unemployment Insurance," Department of Economics Working Papers 2025_09, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.
    11. Tirole, Jean & Moisson, Paul-Henri & Dubois, Pierre, 2023. "The (Ir)Relevance of the Cooperative Form," TSE Working Papers 23-1453, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).

  5. Ben Sprung-Keyser & Nathaniel Hendren & Sonya Porter, 2022. "The Radius of Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Migration and Local Labor Markets," Working Papers 22-27, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.

    Cited by:

    1. Riley Wilson, 2023. "The Isolated States of America: Home State Bias and the Impact of State Borders on Mobility," CESifo Working Paper Series 10724, CESifo.
    2. Hershbein, Brad & Stuart, Bryan A., 2023. "Place-based consequences of person-based transfers: Evidence from recessions," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 224(C).
    3. Ben Sprung-Keyser & Sonya Porter, 2023. "The Economic Geography of Lifecycle Human Capital Accumulation: The Competing Effects of Labor Markets and Childhood Environments," Working Papers 23-54, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
    4. David Autor & David Dorn & Gordon H. Hanson, 2023. "Trading places: Mobility responses of native and foreign-born adults to the China trade shock," POID Working Papers 074, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
    5. Benjamin Goldman & Jamie Gracie & Sonya R. Porter, 2024. "Who Marries Whom? The Role of Segregation by Race and Class," Working Papers 24-30, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
    6. Alastair Langtry, 2025. "More connection, less community: network formation and local public goods provision," Papers 2504.06872, arXiv.org.

  6. Nathaniel Hendren & Ben Sprung-Keyser, 2019. "A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies," NBER Working Papers 26144, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

    Cited by:

    1. Aiello, Darren & Bernstein, Asaf & Kargar, Mahyar & Lewis, Ryan & Schwert, Michael, 2025. "The marginal value of public pension wealth: Evidence from border house prices," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 172(C).
    2. David S. Lee & Pauline Leung & Christopher J. O'Leary & Zhuan Pei & Simon Quach, 2019. "Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance," Working Papers 2019-3, Princeton University. Economics Department..
    3. Pfeiffer, Friedhelm & Stichnoth, Holger, 2020. "Fiscal and individual rates of return to university education with and without graduation," ZEW Discussion Papers 20-016, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
    4. Joseph P. Newhouse, 2020. "An Ounce of Prevention," NBER Working Papers 27553, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    5. Fenizia, Alessandra & Li, Nicholas Y. & Citino, Luca, 2025. "The (In)effectiveness of Targeted Payroll Tax Reductions," IZA Discussion Papers 18233, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    6. Martha J. Bailey & Hilary W. Hoynes & Maya Rossin-Slater & Reed Walker, 2020. "Is the Social Safety Net a Long-Term Investment? Large-Scale Evidence from the Food Stamps Program," NBER Working Papers 26942, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    7. Jacob E. Bastian, 2024. "The EITC in rural and economically distressed areas: More bang per buck?," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer;International Institute of Public Finance, vol. 31(1), pages 136-159, February.
    8. David Koll & Dominik Sachs & Fabian Stürmer-Heiber & Hélène Turon, 2025. "Quantifying Okun’s Leaky Bucket: The Case of Progressive Childcare Subsidies," Bristol Economics Discussion Papers 25/799, School of Economics, University of Bristol, UK.
    9. Gemmell, Norman, 2021. "Economic Lessons for Tax Policy Advisers," Working Paper Series 21109, Victoria University of Wellington, Chair in Public Finance.
    10. Peter Levell & Martin O'Connell & Kate Smith, 2025. "The welfare effects of price shocks and household relief packages: evidence from an energy crisis," IFS Working Papers W25/55, Institute for Fiscal Studies.
    11. Petit, Gillian & Tedds, Lindsay M., 2020. "Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA+) of the Current System of Income and Social Supports in British Columbia," MPRA Paper 105942, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    12. Anna Aizer & Shari Eli & Adriana Lleras-Muney & Keyoung Lee, 2020. "Do Youth Employment Programs Work? Evidence from the New Deal," NBER Working Papers 27103, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    13. Barreto, Yuri & Britto, Diogo & Carrillo, Bladimir & Da Mata, Daniel & Emanuel, Lucas & Sampaio, Breno, 2025. "Cisterns for Life: Climate Adaptation Policies for Water Provision and Rural Lives," IZA Discussion Papers 18250, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    14. Francesco Capozza & Krishna Srinivasan & Mattie Toma, 2025. "Science by Consensus: Eliciting Citizens’ and Experts’ R&D Spending Priorities," CESifo Working Paper Series 12235, CESifo.
    15. Sébastien Montpetit & Luisa Carrer & Pierre-Loup Beauregard, 2025. "A Welfare Analysis of Universal Childcare: Lessons From a Canadian Reform," CHILD Working Papers Series 128 JEL Classification: D, Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) - CCA.
    16. Jens Ludwig & Sendhil Mullainathan & Sophia L. Pink & Ashesh Rambachan, 2025. "Algorithms As a Vehicle to Reflective Equilibrium:‬ Behavioral Economics 2.0," NBER Chapters, in: The Economics of Transformative AI, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    17. Joshua D. Gottlieb & Maria Polyakova & Kevin Rinz & Hugh Shiplett & Victoria Udalova, 2020. "Who Values Human Capitalists' Human Capital? Healthcare Spending and Physician Earnings," Working Papers 20-23, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
    18. Elira Kuka & Na'ama Shenhav, 2020. "Long-Run Effects of Incentivizing Work After Childbirth," Working Papers 2020-10, The George Washington University, Institute for International Economic Policy.
    19. Michel Strawczynski, 2020. "Optimal EITC in the Presence of Cultural Barriers for Labor Market Participation," Journal of Labor Research, Springer, vol. 41(3), pages 233-259, September.
    20. Flor, Christian Riis & Grell, Kevin Berg, 2025. "Subsidizing uncertain investments: The role of production technology and imprecise learning," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 94(C).
    21. Aslim, Erkmen G. & Fu, Wei & Tekin, Erdal & You, Shijun, 2025. "From syringes to dishes: Improving food sufficiency through vaccination," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 247(C).
    22. Bastian, Jacob E. & Jones, Maggie R., 2021. "Do EITC expansions pay for themselves? Effects on tax revenue and government transfers," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 196(C).
    23. Katinka Kristine Holtsmark & Åsmund Sunde Valseth, 2025. "The Marginal Equity-Adjusted Cost of Public Funds," CESifo Working Paper Series 12228, CESifo.
    24. Dhingra, Swati & Kondirolli, Fjolla & Machin, Stephen, 2025. "Citizen Training and the Urban Waste Footprint," IZA Discussion Papers 18124, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    25. João Nicolau & Pedro Raposo & Paulo M. M. Rodrigues, 2023. "Measuring wage inequality under right censoring," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 61(2), pages 377-401, April.
    26. Janet Currie, 2020. "Child health as human capital," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 29(4), pages 452-463, April.

Articles

  1. William C Boning & Nathaniel Hendren & Ben Sprung-Keyser & Ellen Stuart, 2025. "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 140(1), pages 63-112.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  2. Nathaniel Hendren & Ben Sprung-Keyser, 2020. "A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 135(3), pages 1209-1318.
    See citations under working paper version above.Sorry, no citations of articles recorded.

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  1. NEP-GEO: Economic Geography (2) 2022-10-10 2023-12-04. Author is listed
  2. NEP-PBE: Public Economics (2) 2023-07-24 2024-08-26. Author is listed
  3. NEP-URE: Urban and Real Estate Economics (2) 2022-10-10 2023-12-04. Author is listed
  4. NEP-ACC: Accounting and Auditing (1) 2023-07-24
  5. NEP-ENE: Energy Economics (1) 2024-08-26
  6. NEP-ENV: Environmental Economics (1) 2024-08-26
  7. NEP-HEA: Health Economics (1) 2019-08-19
  8. NEP-IAS: Insurance Economics (1) 2019-08-19
  9. NEP-IUE: Informal and Underground Economics (1) 2023-07-24
  10. NEP-LMA: Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages (1) 2023-12-04
  11. NEP-MIG: Economics of Human Migration (1) 2022-10-10
  12. NEP-PUB: Public Finance (1) 2023-07-24
  13. NEP-REG: Regulation (1) 2024-08-26

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