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Total impact
2,973
tracked impacts of your work
Surfaces covered
20+
corpora — academic, media, policy, legal
Your dashboard pulls together every place your work has landed —
the academic citations, the policy citations, the media coverage, and
the testimony that actually moves your field.
See where your impact actually lands
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a count next to each — all 2,973 impacts, sorted by where they
landed, and drill into any row to see the underlying citations.
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Media mentions (newspapers, magazines, broadcast)970
Each row clicks through to the source documents. The 17 federal
policy citations alone is a tenure-file talking point most scholars
never know exists.
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Fwd from: events@sba.gov
Fwd: request to speak at Small Business Administration webinar on May 28
Hi Professor — we’d like to invite you to keynote our
May 28 webinar on regulatory cost-benefit analysis for small
firms. 200–300 attendees from SBA constituency. Honorarium
available. Reply to confirm.
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Captured Activity
TitleSBA webinar keynote
DateMay 28, 2026
VenueSmall Business Administration
Audience200–300 SBA constituency
TopicRegulatory cost-benefit analysis for small firms
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Journal PubsMedia HitsPolicy Influence
Date
Outlet
Headline
2024-03-12
WSJ
Op-ed: regulatory budget
2023-11-04
NYT
Quoted on FTC noncompete rule
2023-08-19
Bloomberg
Cited on EPA cost-benefit
2023-04-07
Politico
Op-ed: regulatory reform
2022-12-01
NPR
Interview on regulation
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Impact count
1,823 impacts
2,973
+1,139
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WSJ · 3 hours ago
Senate Democrats Float New Tax on Carried Interest in Markup
Matched to your work
“The Welfare Cost of Capital-Gains Realization-Based Taxation” · J. Public Econ., 2019
Topical similarity
0.82
Claude-drafted lede
The Senate’s carried-interest markup this week is the right
fight, but the wrong reform. Five years ago I argued in the
Journal of Public Economics that taxing capital gains at
realization — not on the carried-interest carve-out
specifically — is what actually distorts the system.
The senators’ markup treats carried interest as if it were
a special privilege; in practice it’s a downstream symptom
of the realization rule that lets every long-horizon investor
defer tax on accrued gains for decades.
If Congress wants to raise revenue without a lock-in distortion,
there’s a cleaner instrument: a mark-to-market regime for
publicly traded assets above a threshold — the version I
modeled in 2019. Here’s what it would look like, and why
it scores three times as much revenue…
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JM
Justin Lahart · Wall Street Journal
Covers macro & capital-markets regulation; cited your 2019 carried-interest paper twice in 2023.
0.91journalist
CB
Sen. Cory Booker office · Senate Finance
Co-sponsor on carried-interest markup; staff requested testimony on this exact paper in 2024.
0.87legislator
LV
Prof. Laurence van Lent · Frankfurt School
Built on your data in three recent papers on accrual-based taxation; likely co-author candidate.
0.79peer
Frompatrick@trackimpact.app (DKIM-verified)
Tojustin.lahart@wsj.com
SubjectRe: carried-interest markup — the realization story you covered in 2023
Hi Justin — saw your Senate Finance piece this morning.
Your 2023 column cited my JPubE paper on
realization-based taxation; the markup this week is the natural
follow-on story. I’ve modeled the mark-to-market revenue
numbers if useful — happy to share on background or on
the record. — Pat
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This week · federal action
Executive Order 14211: Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting
Signed May 22, 2026 · White House · 27 pages
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Validates your 2022 paper
Improving the Regulatory Process through Regulatory Budgeting
Mercatus Working Paper · Aug 2022 · 4 chapters · 318 citations
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Policy influence portfolio
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State laws citing you8
Federal rules & RIAs17
Congressional hearings61
Regulatory comments72
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Works196
Impacts2,973
Media venues50+
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