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Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how tax and macroeconomic policies can promote stable and broad-based economic growth.

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A strong economy is one that operates at its potential and delivers a high standard of living to the entire population. Monetary, fiscal, and tax policy all play important roles in determining the level and distribution of income, wealth, and other, broader measures of economic wellbeing. Equitable Growth promotes research to improve our understanding of how these policy tools can ensure the economy works for everyone, and reduce the impact of economic downturns.

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The promise of equitable and pro-growth tax reform

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Allowing the 2017 estate tax changes to expire will reduce U.S. inequality and promote economic growth and opportunity

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Factsheet: What the research says about taxing pass-through businesses

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Closing the billionaire borrowing loophole would strengthen the progressivity of the U.S. tax code

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Doubling down on cuts to the IRS is bad for the federal budget and for tax fairness in the United States

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Why measuring inflation is surprisingly challenging

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Do pass-through owners pass tax burdens through to their workers?

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Wealth taxation and evasion: Quasi-experimental evidence from Colombia

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The macro-effects of unemployment insurance: A simulation-based discontinuity design approach

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Income-specific consumption baskets and the interaction between inequality and monetary policy

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California’s paid family leave policy is decreasing nursing home use and saving Medicaid dollars

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How the Tax Act increases inequality and reduces well-being for most Americans

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Supreme Court decision on credit cards undermines competition, celebrates price increases, and will contribute to economic inequality

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Karen Dynan joins Equitable Growth Steering Committee

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The lack of Federal Reserve maneuvering room is very worrisome

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The surprisingly constant “housing wealth effect” in the United States

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Housing wealth effects: The long view

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Unemployment and inflation once again…

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Recession Ready

Recession Ready

Edited by Heather Boushey, Ryan Nunn, and Jay Shambaugh

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Experts on the issue

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Xavier Jaravel

London School of Economics

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Karen Dynan

Harvard University

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Jacob Robbins

University of Illinois at Chicago

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Michael Ettlinger

University of New Hampshire

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Michael Barr

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

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