2025 Joint Statistical Research Program application window postponed
The Internal Revenue Service Statistics of Income Division is currently postponing the 2025 Joint Statistical Research Program application window and is not accepting new proposals at this time, with a re-evaluation of the program's status to occur at a later date to be determined.
2018 Statistics of Income Joint Statistical Research Program projects
Adding to the Databank: Creating Measures of Employer and Job Quality
- Bruce Sacerdote - Dartmouth College
The Analysis of Benefit Program Interactions and Potential Outreach to Improve EITC Take-Up
- Dayanand Manoli - University of Texas at Austin
Analysis to Understand and Improve Taxpayer Compliance and Enforcement Related to Refundable Tax Credits
- Dayanand Manoli - University of Texas at Austin
Analyzing the Growth of Small Businesses, 2000–2016
- Richard Prisinzano - Penn-Wharton Budget Model
- Elena Patel - University of Utah
Behavioral Responses and Tax Compliance with Retirement Savings Contributions Limits
- Dayanand Manoli - University of Texas at Austin
- Alan Auerbach - University of California, Berkeley
Big Data Analytics and IRS Criminal Investigation
- Eugene Soltes - Harvard University
Classification of Firms, Workers, and Return to Successful Innovation
- Joel Slemrod - University of Michigan
- Max Risch - Princeton University
- Stefanie Stantcheva – Harvard University
- Paul Organ - University of Michigan
Creation of a Data Set of Unrealized Capital Gains and Haig-Simons Income
- Jacob Robbins - Brown University
Determinants of Corporate Organizational Structure
- Ashish Agarwal - University of Texas at Austin
- Steven Utke - University of Connecticut
- Shannon Chen - University of Arizona
Do U.S. Multinationals Compete on Foreign Tax Evasion?
- Michele Mullaney - University of North Carolina
Effects of Foreign Tax Costs on Domestic Investment
- Rosanne Altshuler - Rutgers University
- Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato - Duke University
FACTA: Effects on Bank Secrecy, U.S. Financial Institutions, Industry Composition, and the Quality of Foreign Financial Institutions’ Reporting
- Andrew Belnap - University of North Carolina
- Braden Williams - University of Texas
- Jacob Thornock - Brigham Young University
Firm-Worker Relationships and Responses to Policy Incentives
- Nirupama Rao - University of Michigan
- Max Risch - Princeton University
The Impact of Outreach on Delinquent Tax Files
- Matthias Kasper - Tulane University
- James Alm - Tulane University
- Erich Kirchler - University of Vienna
The Impact of State Income Tax Rates on Migration Between Major Core-Based Statistical Areas: A Tale of Six Cities
- Anton Haidorfer - Center for Housing Risk Research
Income Volatility, Tax Payments, and Tax Refunds
- Dan Silverman - Arizona State University
- Michael Gelman - Claremont McKenna College
- Dawn Zinsser - University of Michigan
- Shachar Kariv - University of California, Berkeley
- Mathew Shapiro - University of Michigan
Individual Trading Behavior
- Jeff Hoopes - University of North Carolina
Patterns of Horizontal and Vertical Equity of the U.S. Individual Income Tax, 1966–2017
- Robert Strauss - Carnegie Mellon University
Public Scrutiny and Tax Compliance: The Case of the Unrelated Business Income Tax
- Brian Galle - Georgetown University Law Center
- Benjamin Marx - University of Illinois Urbana
The Role of Foreign Financial Intermediaries in Offshore Tax Compliance
- Andrew Belnap - University of North Carolina
- Braden Williams - University of Texas
- Jacob Thornock - Brigham Young University
Salience and Strategic Income Acquisition: Lessons in Taxpayer Behavior From Retirement Account Distributions
- Ellen Stuart - University of Michigan
Social Security Revenue Options: Lessons About Costs and Distributional Effects From Longitudinal Tax Data
- Melissa Favreault - Urban Institute
- Karen Smith - Urban Institute
- Richard W Johnson - Urban Institute
Tax Administration of the Platform Economy and Response to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
- Matthew Denes - Carnegie Mellon University
- Spyridon Lagaras - University of Pittsburgh
- Margarita Tsoutsoura - Cornell University
Tax Behavior Following Mergers and Acquisitions
- Katherine Waldock - Georgetown University
Tax Compliance of Intangible-Intensive Businesses
- Ellen McGrattan - University of Minnesota
- Anmol Bhandari - University of Minnesota
Tax Incentives and Retirement Savings
- Geoffrey Sanzenbacher - Boston College
- Gal Wettstein - Boston College
- Anqi Chen - Boston College
Tax Reform and the Real Economy: The Case of Passthroughs
- Eric Zwick - University of Chicago
- Danny Yagan - University of California, Berkeley
- Owen Zidar - Princeton University
U.S. Country-by-Country Reporting
- Erin Towery - University of Georgia
- Michelle Nessa - Michigan State University
- Mary Vernon - University of Wisconsin
- Jane Song - University of Georgia
- Anh Persson - Michigan State University
Using Tax Data and Information Returns to Examine Nonfilers and Income Distribution Among Low-Income Filing Units: A Time-Series Analysis
- Robert Moffitt - Johns Hopkins University