research

Publications in reversed chronological order.

2024

  1. JEP
    What Went Wrong with Federal Student Loans?
    Adam Looney and Constantine Yannelis
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2024
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  2. NTJ
    How Much Does College Cost and How Does it Relate to Student Borrowing?
    Adam Looney
    National Tax Journal, Sep 2024
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  3. Report
    Price Inflation and Cost of Living
    Adam Looney and David Stringfellow
    Economic Report to the Governor, Utah Economic Council, 2024
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2023

  1. REStat
    What is the Active Prevalence of COVID-19?
    Mu-Jeung Yang, Nathan Seegert, Adam Looney, Maclean Gaulin, Brian Orleans, Andrew T. Pavia, and 3 more authors
    Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023
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  2. WP
    Declining Fertility, Child Poverty, and the Wellbeing of Families and Children
    Adam Looney
    2023
    Working Paper
  3. WP
    The Double Benefit Myth: Disallowed Interest Expense and Inefficiency in the Municipal Bond Market
    Adam Looney
    2023
    Working Paper
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2022

  1. JFE
    The Consequences of Student Loan Credit Expansions: Evidence from Three Decades of Default Cycles
    Adam Looney and Constantine Yannelis
    Journal of Financial Economics, 2022
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  2. WP
    An Analysis of the EITC and Welfare Policies in the 1990s
    Adam Looney
    2022
    Working Paper
  3. TPC
    How Much Do Tax-Exempt Organizations Benefit from Tax Exemption?
    Adam Looney and Nathan Born
    Tax Policy Center Research Report, 2022
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2021

  1. PLOS ONE
    High Variability in Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 within Households and Implications for Control
    Damon J.A. Toth, Alexander B. Beams, Lindsay T. Keegan, Yue Zhang, Tom Greene, Brian Orleans, and 4 more authors
    PLOS ONE, 2021
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  2. EID
    Probability-Based Estimates of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Seroprevalence and Detection Fraction, Utah, United States
    Matthew Samore, Steven Alder, Andrew T. Pavia, Nathan Seegert, Adam Looney, Maclean Gaulin, and 3 more authors
    Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2021
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2020

  1. WP
    What Drives the Effectiveness of Social Distancing in Combating COVID-19 across U.S. States?
    Mu-Jeung Yang, Maclean Gaulin, Nathan Seegert, and Adam Looney
    2020
    Working Paper
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  2. WP
    Work and Opportunity before and after Incarceration
    Adam Looney and Nick Turner
    2020
    Working Paper
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  3. Book Ch.
    Middle-Class Redistribution: Tax and Transfer Policy for Most Americans
    Adam Looney, Jeff Larrimore, and David Splinter
    In Securing Our Economic Future, 2020
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  4. JPAM
    How to Fix Federal Student Loan Programs
    Adam Looney and Constantine Yannelis
    Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2020
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2019

  1. EER
    How Useful Are Default Rates? Borrowers with Large Balances and Student Loan Repayment
    Adam Looney and Constantine Yannelis
    Economics of Education Review, 2019
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2018

  1. Demography
    Same-Sex Married Tax Filers after Windsor and Obergefell
    Geof Gee, Robin Fisher, and Adam Looney
    Demography, 2018
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  2. WP
    Explaining Trends in Effective Tax Rates
    Ben Harris and Adam Looney
    2018
    Working Paper
  3. Milken Rev.
    Sharing the Risk: Forcing Colleges to Assume Part of the Default Tab Would Motivate Schools to Better Inspire Success
    Adam Looney and Tara Watson
    The Milken Institute Review, 2018

2017

  1. NBER WP
    Measuring Loan Outcomes at Postsecondary Institutions: Cohort Repayment Rates as an Indicator of Student Success and Institutional Accountability
    Tiffany Chou, Adam Looney, and Tara Watson
    2017
    NBER Working Paper 23118
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  2. OTA WP
    The Rise of Alternative Work Arrangements: Evidence and Implications for Tax Filing and Benefit Coverage
    Emilie Jackson, Adam Looney, and Shanthi Ramnath
    2017
    Office of Tax Analysis Working Paper 114
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  3. Hamilton
    A Risk Sharing Proposal for Student Loans
    Tiffany Chou, Adam Looney, and Tara Watson
    2017
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2016

  1. EER
    Measuring Inflation in Grades: An Application of Price Indexing to Undergraduate Grades
    Adam Looney and Rey Hernandez-Julian
    Economics of Education Review, 2016
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  2. Fisc. Stud.
    Changes in the Distribution of After-Tax Wealth in the US: Has Income Tax Policy Increased Wealth Inequality?
    Adam Looney and Kevin Moore
    Fiscal Studies, 2016
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  3. WP
    Are There Returns to Experience at Low-Skill Jobs? Evidence from Single Mothers in the United States Over the 1990s
    Adam Looney and Day Manoli
    2016
    Upjohn Working Paper No. 16-255
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  4. SIEPR
    Is High Student Loan Debt Always a Problem?
    Adam Looney and Constantine Yannelis
    SIEPR Policy Brief, Stanford University, 2016
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2015

  1. BPEA
    A Crisis in Student Loans? How Changes in the Characteristics of Borrowers and in the Institutions They Attended Contributed to Rising Loan Defaults
    Adam Looney and Constantine Yannelis
    Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2015
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2012

  1. Daedalus
    Paying Too Much for Energy? The True Costs of Our Energy Choices
    Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney
    Daedalus, 2012
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2011

  1. Issues S&T
    Renewing Economically Distressed American Communities
    Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney
    Issues in Science and Technology, 2011
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  2. Milken Rev.
    Trends: Reduced Earnings for Men in America
    Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney
    The Milken Institute Review, 2011
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2009

  1. AER
    Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment
    Raj Chetty, Adam Looney, and Kory Kroft
    American Economic Review, 2009
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2006

  1. JPubE
    Consumption Smoothing and the Welfare Consequences of Social Insurance in Developing Economies
    Raj Chetty and Adam Looney
    Journal of Public Economics, 2006
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  2. Book Ch.
    Income Risk and the Benefits of Social Insurance: Evidence from Indonesia and the United States
    Raj Chetty and Adam Looney
    In Fiscal Policy and Management, East Asia Seminar on Economics Vol. 16, 2006
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2005

  1. FEDS WP
    The Effect of Anticipated Tax Changes on Intertemporal Labor Supply and the Realization of Taxable Income
    Adam Looney and Monica Singhal
    2005
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2005-44
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  2. FEDS WP
    The Effects of Welfare Reform and Related Policies on Single Mothers’ Welfare Use and Employment
    Adam Looney
    2005
    Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2005-45
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2004

  1. NTA
    Family Composition and Marginal Tax Rates
    Adam Looney and Monica Singhal
    Proceedings of the 97th Annual Conference, National Tax Association, 2004
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