New York, NY  – Lorenzo Pessina, a 4th year Ph.D. student in the Department of Economics, has been awarded the Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation.  The project will help quantify the benefits and costs of tax incentives offered to attract high income individuals.  The results will help inform policy debates and will demonstrate how large administrative data sets can offer useful information for tax policies. 

on about this NSF Grant, visit: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1919322&HistoricalAwards=false.