My new book with Richard Holden on Australia’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic, published by UNSW Press, is available now, at this link.

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C, a Faculty Affiliate at the Institute for International Economic Policy at GW, and a Visiting Fellow at the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute at the ANU.

I am a tax economist, and use administrative data to learn how people respond to policy changes, which can inform better policy design.

Latest research publication:

Rounded up: Using round numbers to identify tax evasion”, 2024, Journal of Public Economics, 238 (with Robert Breunig and Nathan Deutscher)

Latest working paper:

Early pension withdrawal as stimulus”, with Geoffrey Liu, Jorge Miranda-Pinto, and Tristram Sainsbury (September 8, 2023) 

Latest commentary:

Albanese and Chalmers make the same error as Biden and Harris”, The Australian Financial Review (November 11, 2024)