Videos

Rick gave a Policy Simulation Library Demo Day webinar on, "How to Use OG-USA", on January 11, 2021.

Rick participated in a Baker Institute webinar, "2020 Election Series--Fiscal Policy and the U.S. Economy in the Wake of COVID-19: Taxes, Spending, and Economic Growth", with Joyce Beebe, Jorge Barro, John Diamond, and Maya MacGuineas, Center for Public Finance, Baker Institute webinar, October 13, 2020.

Rick participated in a webinar with Coiled.io, "Scaling Open Source Policy Models and Analyzing the Biden Plan", Science Thursday webcast with Matthew Rocklin and Hugo Bowne-Anderson, Coiled.io, September 3, 2020.

Rick gave a talk, "DeBacker-Evans OG-USA Model: Intro, Primer, Examples, and Contributor Guide," at the Policy Simulation Library (PSL) Meetup at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, January 29, 2019. [my talk starts at minute 10:29, slides]

American Enterprise Institute panel discussion, "Introducing the Open Source Policy Center: Making tax policy transparent, accessible, and collaborative," American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, April 14, 2016. (minutes 27:46 to 31:14) Jason DeBacker and I summarize the OG-USA overlapping generations model for dynamic revenue estimates. (minutes 47:38 to 50:25) Matt Jensen and I respond to the question from Michael Hendrix of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation asking "What does [OSPC] mean for how think tanks operate? And how does [OSPC] reflect Silicon Valley's influence on the policy process?"

Keynote presentation, entitled "The Mind of Pete Carroll: Tax Policy, Inequality, and State Competitiveness," at the Annual Dinner of the Washington Research Council, Seattle, Washington, May 28, 2015.

Here is a link to a HuffPost Live video segment I did, entitled "The Hurricane Sandy Baby Boom," from October 29, 2013. It references my research, "The Fertility Effect of Catastrophe: U.S. Hurricane Births."

BYU Kennedy Center talk, entitled "Is the Euro Toast?" joint with Wade Jacoby, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, October 5, 2011.