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Ben Lockwood

@benlockwood.com

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Business Economics and Public Policy prof at Wharton. Optimal taxation, inequality, and behavioral economics. benlockwood.com bepp.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/benlo/

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Ben Lockwood @benlockwood.com · 13/03/2025

In contrast, the average American spends an estimated $210 and 11 hours to file their 1040 personal income tax return. Those are real costs—that time could be spent producing real goods and contributing to GDP. www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prio...

Table showing the time and money burden of tax filing for Americans

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Ben Lockwood @benlockwood.com · 17/11/2024

I’m mostly on here for econ talk and yimby takes, but for anyone into jazz piano, Jon Batiste released Beethoven Blues on Friday and it is fantastic. album.link/i/1769426743

Album cover for Jon Batiste’s “Beethoven Blues”

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Ben Lockwood @benlockwood.com · 03/09/2024

This JEP paper has a review of the historical economic evidence about migration in response to top tax rates from a variety of settings. scholar.harvard.edu/files/stantc...

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Ben Lockwood @benlockwood.com · 11/05/2024

My favorite (non-coding) application for LLMs so far: choose-your-own-adventure bedtime stories.

ChatGPT screenshot showing prompt for a Choose Your Own Adventure bedtime story.

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Ben Lockwood @benlockwood.com · 14/03/2024

π day on campus always makes me smile.

University sidewalk with the digits of π written out in chalk.

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Ben Lockwood @benlockwood.com · 18/11/2023

This is well worth a read. I remember the moment in grad school where I realized I should stop filling my unoccupied moments with audiobooks. Silence is where thinking—and often learning—happens.

Quote from article: “I believe unstructured time is an essential input into thinking.”

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Ben Lockwood @benlockwood.com · 19/10/2023

Is a big part of the 2019-2022 increase a reallocation from public to private balance sheets? Looks like government debt went up around $100k per family over that stretch.

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Ben Lockwood @benlockwood.com · 18/10/2023

Correcting the link here: www.federalreserve.gov/publications… Remarkable how the % growth was larger at lower net worths (and lower education, and among non-homeowners…) #EconSky 📉📈

Net worth in 2022 vs. 2019; growth was highest at lower net worth percentiles.

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Ben Lockwood @benlockwood.com · 17/10/2023

All these "Dear Algorithm" posts over at Threads are fun, but they highlight the promise of Bluesky's ecosystem of user-created algorithms ("feeds") over a one-size-fits-all master algorithm.

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Ben Lockwood @benlockwood.com · 14/10/2023

I love the end of this piece from @soumayakeynes.bsky.social on.ft.com/3txwo4u #EconSky 📉📈

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Ben Lockwood @benlockwood.com · 12/10/2023

Tap the “#” tab and search for “#NumbersDay” using the search field. You should be able to tap through and “Add+”, which will make it show up with your other feeds.

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