I am an assistant professor in the Business Economics and Public Policy (BEPP) group at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. My research is in the fields of public economics and labor economics. I am a co-director at Policy Impacts. I received a PhD in Economics from Harvard.
My CV is here.
Publications
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A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution
William C. Boning, Nathaniel Hendren, Ben Sprung-Keyser and Ellen Stuart
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 140(1), 63-112, 2025.
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A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies
Nathaniel Hendren and Ben Sprung-Keyser
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 135(3), 1209-1318, 2020.
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Working Papers
- A Welfare Analysis of Policies Impacting Climate Change
Robert Hahn, Nathaniel Hendren, Robert Metcalfe and Ben Sprung-Keyser
NBER Working Paper, No. 32728
[Paper] [Executive Summary]
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The Economic Geography of Lifecycle Human Capital Accumulation: The Competing Effects of Labor Markets and Childhood Environments
Ben Sprung-Keyser and Sonya Porter
Job Market Paper
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State Taxes, Migration, and Capital Gains Realizations
Lucas Goodman and Ben Sprung-Keyser
Revision Requested, AEJ:Policy
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The Radius of Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Migration and Local Labor Markets
Ben Sprung-Keyser, Nathaniel Hendren, and Sonya Porter
Center for Economic Studies Working Paper Series, US Census Bureau, CES-22-27
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Notes
- The Case for Using the MVPF in Empirical Welfare Analysis
Nathan Hendren and Ben Sprung-Keyser
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