ALISA TAZHITDINOVA

​Assistant Professor of Economics at UC Santa Barbara 
Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research

​My research interests are in public economics, labor economics, and psychology and economics. 
​​Contact Information:
​Department of Economics, UCSB
2127 North Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9210
​Email: tazhitda [at] ucsb.edu
​How to pronounce my last name? "tah-zheet-DEE-noh-vah," where "zh" is pronounced as "s" in "leisure"

​WORKING PAPERS:

​"Difference-in-Differences  with Unequal Baseline Treatment Status" (with Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare)​   
 NBER Working Paper 31063

"Permanent and Transitory Responses to Capital Gains Taxes: Evidence from a Lifetime Exemption in Canada" 
 (with Adam Lavecchia)​     NBER Working Paper 28514     Non-technical summary      Slides    Featured in: Globe and Mail
​
"What Drives Tax Policy? Political, Institutional and Economic Determinants of State Tax Policy" 
​(with Sarah Robinson)​   NBER Working Paper 31268​

PUBLICATIONS:

​ "Corporate Political Spending and State Tax Policy: Evidence from Citizens United" 
​​(with Cailin Slattery and  Sarah Robinson)​, Journal of Public Economics, 2023 volume 221 (May), 104859.    
Publisher's Link    NBER Working Paper 30352         Featured in: Wall Street Journal,  Harvard Law School Forum

​"Increasing Hours Worked: Moonlighting Responses to a Large Tax Reform" 
​American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2022, 14(1): 473-500.  Publisher's Link    NBER Working Paper 27726

​"Do Value-Added Taxes Affect International Trade Flows? Evidence from 30 Years of Tax Reforms," ​
​(with Youssef Benzarti), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021, 13(4): 469-489.  
Publisher's Link   NBER Working Paper 26195      Featured in: Future Directions (Australia)

​​"Are Changes of Organizational Form Costly? Income Shifting and Business Entry Responses to Taxes"
Journal of Public Economics, 2020, volume 186 (June), 104187.    Publisher's Link    Slides

​"Do Only Tax Incentives Matter? Labor Supply and Demand Responses to an Unusually Large and Salient Tax Break," Journal of Public Economics, 2020, volume 184 (April), 104162.  Publisher's Link   Winner of the 2016 IIPF Peggy and Richard Musgrave Price 

​​"Reducing Evasion Through Self-Reporting: Evidence from Charitable Contributions,"  
 Journal of Public Economics, 2018, volume 165 (September), pp. 31-47.    Publisher's Link     Slides


​WORK IN PROGRESS:

"One Hundred Years of Taxation" (with Sarah Robinson)

 ​"Understanding Capital Gains Responses to Taxes using Transaction-Level Data" (with Sreeraahul Kancherla)​

​"Social Insurance and Entrepreneurs" (with Youssef Benzarti, Jarkko Harju, Tuomas Matikka and Ella Mattinen)

"Taxation and Regular Folks’ Migration: Evidence from 35 Years of Canadian Immigration Data" (with Adam Lavecchia) 

"The Disposition Effect and the Character of Reference Dependence: Theory and Evidence" (with Youssef Benzarti, Alexander M. Gelber, Sreeraahul Kancherla, Patrick Langetieg, and Daniel Reck) 
​​
​"The Welfare Consequences of Income Taxation with Savings Incentives and Optimization Frictions" (with Adam Lavecchia and Derek Messacar)