Patrick Kennedy
patrick.kennedy@berkeley.edu cv
Appointments and Affiliations
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research
Economist, Joint Committee on Taxation
Assistant Professor of Economics, UCLA (July 2024 start)
Research
I work primarily in public economics. My research uses tools from public finance, labor, and trade to study the effects of public policies on firms, workers, and places.
Some of my interests include:
U.S. tax policy
Tariffs and protectionism
Place-based and local housing policies
Working Papers
The Efficiency-Equity Tradeoff of the Corporate Income Tax: Evidence from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
with Christine Dobridge, Paul Landefeld, and Jake Mortenson. Last update: March 2024. (Job Market Paper)
High-End Housing and Gentrification: Evidence from a San Francisco Lottery
with Harrison Wheeler. Last update: November 2023.
Neighborhood-Level Investment from the U.S. Opportunity Zone Program: Early Evidence
with Harrison Wheeler. Last update: April 2022.
The TCJA and Domestic Corporate Tax Rates
with Christine Dobridge, Paul Landefeld, and Jake Mortenson. Last update: September 2023.
Published and Forthcoming Papers
The US-China Trade War and Global Reallocations
accepted, American Economic Review: Insights (2023)
with Pablo Fajgelbaum, Penelopi Goldberg, Amit Khandelwal, and Daria Taglioni
The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2020). Lead article and editor's choice.
with Pablo Fajgelbaum, Penny Goldberg, and Amit Khandelwal
slides, replication, bibtex, vox
Where Do People Get Their News?
Economic Policy (2019).
with Andrea Prat
slides, replication, bibtex, vox,