Huaqun Li Senior Economist Dr. Huaqun Li is a Senior Economist at the Tax Foundation. She focuses on developing and maintaining the Foundation’s Taxes and Growth Model, which models the budgetary and economic effects of changes to federal tax policy. She also uses the Taxes and Growth Model to model individual and corporate tax policy proposals and reform plans and helps with publishing the results. Before joining the Tax Foundation, she was a research economist at Regional Economics Models, Inc. at Amherst, MA, where she worked on model building, empirical analysis, and new product development on economic and demographic forecast models. Dr. Huaqun Li received her PhD in Public Policy Analysis from George Mason University. Her primary research areas include regional economic development, regional inequality, entrepreneurship and new firms, as well as regional development in China. Huaqun lives in Fairfax, Virginia. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, hiking, and doing yoga. Written Works Comparing Three Financing Options for President Biden’s Spending Proposals August 3, 2021 Dynamic Scoring of Infrastructure Spending Proposals Offsets Small Portion of the Cost July 20, 2021 The Impact of the Biden Administration’s Tax Proposals by State and Congressional District June 30, 2021 Details and Analysis of President Biden’s FY 2022 Budget Proposals June 16, 2021 Details and Analysis of President Biden’s American Jobs Plan June 4, 2021 Financing Infrastructure Spending with Corporate Tax Increases Would Stunt Economic Growth May 14, 2021 Details and Analysis of Tax Proposals in President Biden’s American Families Plan May 6, 2021 Making the Expanded Child Tax Credit Permanent Would Cost Nearly $1.6 Trillion March 19, 2021 House Ways and Means Committee Takes First Steps Toward Additional Coronavirus Relief Legislation February 10, 2021 Modeling Different Proposals for Round Three Direct Payments February 2, 2021 See Full List Back to Staff Page
