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Welcome! My name is Chengdai Huang, and I am a sixth-year PhD student in economics at NYU.
I will be on the 2026–27 job market. My job market paper studies the implications of non-Gaussian and nonlinear income dynamics for the optimal design of the income tax system in the United States.
Research interests: Macroeconomics, labor economics
You can contact me at ch3586@nyu.edu
Publications
Publications
Testing and Reopening in an SEIR Model with David Berger, Kyle Herkenhoff, and Simon Mongey.
Review of Economic Dynamics, 2022
Working Papers
Working Papers
Rising Income Risk at the Top with J. Carter Braxton, Kyle Herkenhoff, Michael Nattinger, Jonathan Rothbaum, and Lawrence Schmidt
Work in Progress
Work in Progress
"Optimal Income Tax under Nonlinear Income Dynamics" (JMP) draft coming soon
"Bankruptcy Facts and Puzzles" with J. Carter Braxton, Kyle Herkenhoff, Gordon Phillips, and Lawrence Schmidt
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