Adam Looney

Director, Marriner S. Eccles Institute | University of Utah | Brookings Institution

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Department of Finance

Garff 3426

1731 E Campus Center Dr

Salt Lake City, UT 84112

I am Director of the Marriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis at the University of Utah, a clinical professor in the Division of Quantitative Analysis of Markets and Organizations, and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. My research examines the effects of government programs, with a particular focus on tax and student loan policy.

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selected publications

  1. JEP
    What Went Wrong with Federal Student Loans?
    Adam Looney and Constantine Yannelis
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2024
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  2. NTJ
    How Much Does College Cost and How Does it Relate to Student Borrowing?
    Adam Looney
    National Tax Journal, Sep 2024
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  3. JFE
    The Consequences of Student Loan Credit Expansions: Evidence from Three Decades of Default Cycles
    Adam Looney and Constantine Yannelis
    Journal of Financial Economics, 2022
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  4. BPEA
    A Crisis in Student Loans? How Changes in the Characteristics of Borrowers and in the Institutions They Attended Contributed to Rising Loan Defaults
    Adam Looney and Constantine Yannelis
    Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2015
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  5. AER
    Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment
    Raj Chetty, Adam Looney, and Kory Kroft
    American Economic Review, 2009
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