🟦 Congratulations to Jacob Mortenson (Georgetown PhD ’16) on his new AER paper, “Corporate Tax Cuts, Firm Growth, and Workers’ Earnings.”
Key finding: 87% of short-run private-income gains from the 2017 corporate tax cuts flowed to the top 10%.
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Corporate Tax Cuts, Firm Growth, and Workers' Earnings
(September 2026) - We study the effects of the largest corporate income tax cut in US history on firms and workers. To identify causal effects, we use employer-employee matched tax records and event s...
