The authors say many states have structural deficits because they have failed to modernize their revenue systems; they suggest steps that states can take to shore up their tax systems. Those steps include taxing services and requiring combined reporting, the authors says

The author writes that total estate taxes will decline for all estates, whether the person leaving the estate lived in a state that has retained an estate tax or not. Also, the amount of state estate tax owed by estates that are large enough to be taxable is less than it might appear based on...

The authors point out that state tax systems have become more regressive in the past decade. Taxes in many states have become relatively more burdensome to low- and moderate-income families and relatively less burdensome on the affluent than they were before the last recession, the authors say....

New streams of data are being generated by a range of in-situ instrumentation, mobile sensing, and social media that can be integrated and analyzed to better understand urban activity and mobility patterns. While several studies have focused on understanding activity patterns and flows of people...

Most emergency medical services (EMS) systems send patients to the closest hospitals. This long-standing principle, while maximizing patient welfare in usual times, can lead to hospital overloading and negative patient outcomes during unusual EMS demand shifts caused by events such as the...

The accurate estimation of workday length is essential to estimate total labor supply, and has a significant bearing on the assessment of labor productivity and worker well-being. Using probe request data from a 53 access-point, publicly-accessible Wi-Fi network in the Lower Manhattan district...

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