Youssef Benzarti
I am an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara; a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Director of UCSB's Tax Policy Lab.
Email: benzarti@ucsb.edu
You can download my CV here
WORKING PAPERS
"Tax Incidence Anomalies". August 2024. Prepared for the Annual Review of Economics. NBER Working Paper No. 32819.
"Can VAT Cuts and Anti-Profiteering Measures Dampen the Effects of Food Price Inflation?" with Santiago Garriga and Dario Tortarolo. June 2024. NBER Working Paper No. 32241.
"Modern US Workers’ Compensation and Work-Related Injury: No Evidence of Moral Hazard" with Emiliano Huet Vaughn. November 2020. NBER Working Paper No. 28187.
PUBLICATIONS
"Rising Income Tax Complexity" with Luisa Wallossek. National Tax Journal, Vol 77. No. 1, (2024). NBER Working Paper No. 31944.
"Playing Hide and Seek: How Lenders Respond to Borrower Protection". Review of Economics and Statistics, (2024) 106 (2): 384-393. NBER Working Paper No. 26382. Featured in: CardRates.com
"Can Payroll Tax Cuts Help Firms During Recessions?" with Jarkko Harju (VATT). Journal of Public Economics 200 (2021) 104472. NBER Working Paper No. 27485.
"Using Payroll Tax Variation to Unpack the Black Box of Firm-Level Production" with Jarkko Harju (VATT). Journal of the European Economic Association 19.5 (2021): 2737-2764. NBER Working Paper No. 26640.
"Do Value-Added Taxes Affect International Trade Flows? Evidence From 30 Years of Tax Reforms" with Alisa Tazhitdinova (UCSB). AEJ: Economic Policy, Vol 13 No. 4. NBER Working Paper No. 26195.
"Estimating the Costs of Filing Tax Returns and the Potential Savings from Policies Aimed at Reducing these Costs" Tax Policy and the Economy, Vol 35 2021. Featured in Marketplace.
"What Goes Up May Not Come Down: Asymmetric Incidence of Value Added Taxes" with Dorian Carloni (CBO), Jarkko Harju (VATT) and Tuomas Kosonen (LIER). Journal of Political Economy, December 2020. Publisher's link. NBER Working Paper No. 23849. Featured in Les Echos, L'Express, Capital, LCI, Ouest France, BFM, Bloomberg, Microeconomic Insights.
“How Taxing Is Tax Filing? Using Revealed Preferences to Estimate Compliance Costs” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, November 2020. Publisher's Link. NBER Working Paper No. 23903. Featured in the LA Times, Le Figaro, Time, the Blade, Quartz, Marketplace, Washington Post, the Economic Report of the President and the NBER Digest.
"Does Mandating Social Insurance Affect Entrepreneurial Activity?" with Jarkko Harju (VATT) and Tuomas Matikka (VATT). American Economic Review: Insights, June 2020. Publisher's Link. NBER Working Paper No. 25651. Featured in AEA Research Highlights.
"Who Really Benefits From Consumption Tax Cuts? Evidence From a Large VAT Cut in France" with Dorian Carloni (CBO). American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2019. Publisher's Link. NBER Working Paper No. 23848. Appendix. Vox Summary, IPP Policy Brief. Featured in Alternatives Economiques, Le Figaro, France 2, France 3, Liberation, AEA Chart of the Week.