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A complex tax code places burdens on taxpayers to navigate a myriad of rules, as well as on bureaucrats to correctly enforce these rules. Often, tax code complexity is the unwanted collateral of many laws enacted over prolonged periods that make sense at the time but lack overall coherence. In this ...

Social scientists frequently perform statistical decompositions of wage gaps, attributing group differences in wages to group differences in worker characteristics. Since the survey datasets used to estimate these decompositions are small, the included characteristics are typically low-dimensional, e.g. summary statistics about job history. These low-dimensional summaries risk ...