Assistant Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago. My views are my own.
Joined September 2011
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Dmitri Koustas retweeted
21 Nov 2025
Meet the Harris Public Policy PhD candidates on the job market! They bring cutting-edge research, rigorous methods, and fresh insights across economics, political science, and public policy. Explore their profiles job market papers: har.rs/4oMgivt
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19 Nov 2025
Recidivism is a big problem, with 9/10 going back to prison. @daniellenems FOIA’d data on every prison visit in WA and finds quasi random assignment to prison closer to home => family visits ⬆️ and recidivism ⬇️. Great JMP that will be very influential for prison reform debates!
19 Nov 2025
Danielle Nemschoff's research shows that prison placement decisions matter. When people are housed closer to home, they receive more family visits, which significantly reduces recidivism. daniellenemschoff.github.io/
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Dmitri Koustas retweeted
Student loan forgiveness boosts short-term consumption, causing spikes in mortgage, auto, and credit card debt, while negatively affecting earnings and employment chances. New brief from @dkoust (@HarrisPolicy) and co-authors. ow.ly/uTXW50V7Pzp
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17 Feb 2025
We now have evidence on how ppl responded to student loan forgiveness, and it largely supports this view (except forgiveness was exempted from taxes). For every dollar of forgiveness, total up front spending inc by 9 cents. 🧵on our new paper here: x.com/dkoust/status/18911960…
16 Nov 2020
Student loan debt forgiveness likely has a multiplier close to zero.
Forgiveness is taxable. If this negative cash flow effect outweighs interest savings would even be net negative. And wealth effect small in short run.
Arbitrary/regressive $1T for ~$0 GDP, not a great idea.
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16 Feb 2025
Excited to share our new paper on the employment and consumption effects of recent student loan forgiveness with @mikedinerstein, Sam Earnest, and Constantine Yannelis 🧵👇
16 Feb 2025
Excited about this new paper with Sam Earnest, @dkoust, and Constantine Yannelis. We study the recent forgiveness of 7% (!) of student loan debt in the US 1/13
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Dmitri Koustas retweeted
5 Dec 2024
Econ RA/Predoc Opportunity!
Ben Feigenberg & I are looking for an RA to work with us on projects studying the impacts of restorative justice in schools. Apply here!
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ALT Professor Anjali Adukia (University of Chicago) and Professor Ben Feigenberg (University of Illinois at Chicago) seek a full-time research assistant with strong technical skills to work on large-scale social policy research projects designed to improve educational outcomes. The analyst will work on a portfolio of projects related to education and restorative justice in schools. The position is based in Chicago, IL. The successful candidate will have experience in applying a variety of statistical modeling and data analysis techniques to datasets in real-world settings. From project inception to delivery, the RA will contribute to all facets of data collection and cleaning, model development, and implementation. To apply, please submit a resume/CV, a letter of interest, the name of at least one reference, and an unofficial transcript through the UChicago Workday jobs portal.
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5 Sep 2024
Same here @GallenYana !
Thank you @equitablegrowth for generously supporting our research!
5 Sep 2024
Excited to work on this with the amazing @dkoust !!
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Dmitri Koustas retweeted
2 Sep 2024
On Labor Day, let’s celebrate how capitalism has provided people with more time to do things other than work
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Dmitri Koustas retweeted
15 Aug 2024
Econ professors have our work cut out for us this fall!
- Tariffs don’t lead to lower prices
- Price controls lead to less supply
- Eliminating some type of income from taxes is distortionary
- & so much more!
As my sister who is a personal trainer always says, LFG! 💪🏻
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We @HarrisPolicy are proud to launch our Public Sector Scholarship guaranteeing a minimum of $40,000 in scholarship to those with 3 years of public sector service. People dedicated to serving society should have access to the world's best policy education.
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Sealing criminal records from employer background checks has a limited impact on employment rates and earnings, from @amandayagan, @andy_garin, @dkoust, @AMLabEcon, and Crystal Yang nber.org/papers/w32394
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10 Feb 2024
Private sector solving problems the government has been unable to solve for decades
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Dmitri Koustas retweeted
10 Feb 2024
They asked Chiefs players about rate cut expectations and Justin Watson actually cooked
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1 Jan 2024
Google gives lyrical credit of Auld Lang Syne to Rod Stewart. Apropos of 2024, the year of artificial intelligence!
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Dmitri Koustas retweeted
8 Dec 2023
Here it is! Our new @Arnold_Ventures standing RFP for causal research proposals! This replaces our previous practice of invite-only submissions for most research.
Please RT and share with your networks, including PhD students.
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Dmitri Koustas retweeted
10 Nov 2023
1/8 It's official. The US gvt in analysis of the costs and benefits of any new regulation will now use long-run discount rates as low as 1.1%. All proposed regulation the Administration says has high costs today but high benefits in the future just got a BIG, unjusified boost.
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4 Nov 2023
Reminder: Starting soon!
2 Nov 2023
On Saturday 8:30-10:00 @JacksonEmilieA will present on the implications of the 1099-K gap for measurement and tax compliance in gig work. Closing the gap remains part of tax policy discussion, and our work helps clear up misconceptions and provides new revenue implications:
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2 Nov 2023
Later today Carl McPherson will be presenting new work with me, Ithai Lurie and Bob Kaestner on the ACA's effect on job lock and mortality in "Medicaid Matters", 3:45-5:15. Also in this session, you don't want to miss @HarrisPolicy PhD and job market candidate Angela Wyse (con't)
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2 Nov 2023
presenting her excellent JMP providing new evidence of Medicaid's effect on mortality across a surprisingly broad spectrum of the population. More about Angela's compelling and important research on Medicaid and homelessness here: angelawyse.com/research
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