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Book review of Cunningham’s Causal Inference: The Mixtape was accompanied by the unusual sight of multiple economists proudly posting photos (e.g. 1, 2, 3) on twitter of the arrival of the book at their houses like they had just scored tickets to a sold-out concert. This book has two fantastic features for readers interested in impact evaluation. First, Scott has provided a free online version of the book, as a compliment to the paper copy. Second, the book provides Stata and R code throughout, which both shortens the distance from theory to practice, and can serve as a great way of helping...

We're auditing about a third of the cases that we used to do for millionaires. so we're actually going in the wrong direction. we could do so, but we would have to decide to make a solid effort. >> megan? >> look, first of all, i think the idea that we can raise huge amounts of revenue through a wealth tax is pretty sketchy, as is the idea that -- warren's idea that we're going to raise a ton of money by cracking down to tax avoidance. i think that it is a good idea for the irs to have the resources to collect the taxes that it's owed. but if you look at the congressional budget office, they'r...