Youssef Benzarti


​I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
​I am currently visiting the Department of Economics at Brown University.
Email: youssef.benzarti@gmail.com

​​You can download my CV here.

PUBLICATIONS:

“How Taxing Is Tax Filing? Using Revealed Preferences to Estimate Compliance Costs” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Forthcoming. NBER Working Paper No. 23903. Featured in the LA Times, Le Figaro, Time, the Blade, Quartz, NPR, Washington Post, the Economic Report of the President  and the NBER Digest.
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​"Does Mandating Social Insurance Affect Entrepreneurial Activity?" with Jarkko Harju (VATT) and Tuomas Matikka (VATT). American Economic Review: Insights, Forthcoming. NBER Working Paper No. 25651.
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​"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. 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.
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WORKING PAPERS:

​​​Revised "What Goes Up May Not Come Down: Asymmetric Incidence of Value Added Taxes" with Dorian Carloni (CBO), Jarkko Harju (VATT) and Tuomas Kosonen (LIER). Revised and Resubmitted (3rd round), Journal of Political Economy. NBER Working Paper No. 23849. February 2020. Featured in Les Echos, L'Express, Capital, LCI, Ouest France, BFM.
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Revised "Do Value-Added Taxes Affect International Trade Flows? Evidence From 30 Years of Tax Reforms" Revise and Resubmit, AEJ: Economic Policy. NBER Working Paper No. 26195 with Alisa Tazhitdinova (UCSB). August 2019.
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​​​New "Using Payroll Tax Variation to Unpack the Black Box of Firm-Level Production" with Jarkko Harju (VATT) January 2020. NBER Working Paper No. 26640.
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​​​New "Playing Hide and Seek: How Lenders Respond to Borrower Protection" January 2020. NBER Working Paper No. 26382.
Featured in: NBER Research Spotlight, CardRates.com
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"Should I Stay Or Should I Go? The Migration Patterns of High-Skilled Workers: Evidence From Alumni Databases." October 2015.