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Sara LaLumia

Assistant Professor of Economics

Office: Schapiro Hall Rm. 206
Webpage: http://lanfiles.williams.edu/~sl2l
E-mail: Sara.Lalumia@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-4886
Fax: (413)597-4045
Department of Economics
Williams College
24 Hopkins Hall Drive
Williamstown, MA 01267

Education

University of Michigan, Ph.D., 2006
Youngstown State University, B.A., 2000
Curriculum Vitae

Fields of Specialization

Income and Taxation Policies
Public Finance

Publications

“The Effects of Joint Taxation of Married Couples on Labor Supply and Non-wage Income.” Journal of Public Economics. July 2008. 92(7): 1698-1719.

“The Earned Income Tax Credit and Reported Self-Employment Income.” National Tax Journal. June 2009. 62(2): 191-217.

Winner of the Richard Musgrave Prize for best article published in the National Tax Journal in 2009.

“Tax Preferences for Higher Education and Adult College Enrollment.” National Tax Journal, Forthcoming.

“Responses of the Self-Employed to the 2001 Tax Act.” Proceedings of the 101st Annual Conference of the National Tax Association. 2008: 141-148.

Book review of “The Tiebout Model at Fifty: Essays in Public Economics in Honor of Wallace Oates,” edited by William A. Fischel. Journal of Regional Science. May 2009. 49(2).

Book review of “Why The Garden Club Couldn’t Save Youngstown: The Transformation of the Rust Belt,” by Sean Safford. Journal of Regional Science. February 2011. 51(1).

Works in Progress

“The Value of Honesty: Empirical Estimates from the Case of the Missing Children.” With James M. Sallee. NBER Working Paper 17247. Under Review.

“The EITC, Tax Refunds and Unemployment Spells.” Under Review.

Selected Work Experience

Joint Committee on Taxation, U.S. Congress, Visiting Fellow, Summer 2007.

College of William and Mary, Department of Economics, Assistant Professor, August 2006 -May 2007.