Adam Auerbach

About

Adam Auerbach is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University. His research centers on local governance, urban politics, and the political economy of development, with a regional focus on South Asia and India in particular. He authored the book 'Demanding Development: The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India’s Urban Slums,' published by Cambridge University Press in 2020, which examines the uneven success of India’s slum residents in demanding and securing essential public services from the state. This project is based on over two years of fieldwork in Jaipur, Rajasthan, and Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, and the book received the Dennis Judd Best Book Award from the Urban and Local Politics Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA). The dissertation that underpins this work also earned three awards, including APSA’s Gabriel A. Almond Award for best dissertation in comparative politics. His second book, co-authored with Tariq Thachil and published by Princeton University Press in 2023, is titled 'Migrants and Machine Politics: How India’s Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness,' which has garnered multiple awards such as the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize, the Francine Frankel Prize, the Giovanni Sartori Book Award, and the Best Book Award from the Experimental Research Section of APSA. Auerbach’s research on governance and development in India has been published in numerous prestigious journals including the American…

Research topics

• Economics
• Market economy
• Macroeconomics
• Monetary economics
• Political Science
• Law and economics
• Geography
• Labour economics
• Public economics
• Law

Selected publications

• Public Finance Implications of Economic Inequality

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2025-04-01 · 1 citations

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  This paper considers questions about the implications of rising inequality for the theory and practice of public finance.It begins by addressing fundamental reasons why the distribution of income or wealth on an annual basis before taxes and transfers offers insufficient information: (1) it does not tell us what resources are actually available to households for consumption; and (2) in providing a snapshot of the resources available to individuals of different ages at a given moment in time, wit…

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• Tax and Fiscal Policy and Its Evaluation in the United States

  2025-05-22

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  Abstract This chapter evaluates U.S. tax and fiscal policies, focusing on sustainability, economic impact, contribution to inequality, and response to international tax competition. It argues that U.S. fiscal policy is unsustainable, worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, with political challenges limiting fiscal stimulus to recessions, which in the past has shown to be very effective. Despite rising inequality, U.S. fiscal policy helps mitigate it. This is particularly evident if one takes a lifeti…

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• Then and Now: A Look Back and Ahead at the Federal Budget

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2025-11-01

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  It is well-understood that the U.S. faces an unsustainable fiscal future.We review historical budget trends and basic fiscal processes.We provide new estimates of the budget outlook, incorporating the recently enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), and finding that the debt-GDP ratio will rise to 183% in 2054 under the OBBBA as legislated and to 199% if the temporary tax and spending provisions are made permanent.These figures compare to a current debt-GDP ratio of about 100% and a pre-OBBB…

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• Data from Extended Adjuvant Therapy with Neratinib Plus Fulvestrant Blocks ER/HER2 Crosstalk and Maintains Complete Responses of ER<sup>+</sup>/HER2<sup>+</sup> Breast Cancers: Implications to the ExteNET Trial

  2023-03-31

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  <div>AbstractPurpose:<p>The phase III ExteNET trial showed improved invasive disease-free survival in patients with HER2<sup>+</sup> breast cancer treated with neratinib versus placebo after trastuzumab-based adjuvant therapy. The benefit from neratinib appeared to be greater in patients with ER<sup>+</sup>/HER2<sup>+</sup> tumors. We thus sought to discover mechanisms that may explain the benefit from extended adjuvant therapy with neratinib.</…

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• Evolving views of the taxation of saving

  2023-09-14

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  The 125th anniversary of the Economic Journal provided an opportunity to look back on several of the journal’s important papers and reflect on how these papers altered our thinking about important economic issues and laid the groundwork for further progress in economic research. One such contribution was the 1980 paper by Anthony Atkinson and Agnar Sandmo, “Welfare Implications of the Taxation of Savings,” written at a time when the most commonly held objective of tax reform was the achievement…

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Frequent coauthors

• Laurence J. Kotlikoff

  278 shared

• Yuriy Gorodnichenko

  124 shared

• Michael Devereux

  66 shared

• William G. Gale

  Brookings Institution

  54 shared

• Jagadeesh Gokhale

  University of Pennsylvania

  50 shared

• Darryl Koehler

  45 shared

• Kevin A. Hassett

  38 shared

• Michael Keen

  The University of Tokyo

  37 shared

Awards & honors

• Dennis Judd Best Book Award from the Urban and Local Politic…
• APSA’s Gabriel A. Almond Award for best dissertation in comp…
• Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize from the Association for A…
• Francine Frankel Prize from the South Asia Section of APSA
• Giovanni Sartori Book Award from the Qualitative and Mixed-M…

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