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 A History and Analysis of Payroll Tax Holidays March 31, 2020 Congress Approves Economic Relief Plan for Individuals and Businesses March 30, 2020 Review and Analysis of House Democrats Coronavirus Response Bill March 24, 2020 Analysis of Capital Gains Tax Proposals Among Democratic Presidential Candidates March 18, 2020 Comparing the Growth and Income-Boosting Effects of Tax Reform Options March 9, 2020 Analysis of the Economic, Revenue, and Distributional Effects of Repealing Step-up in Basis February 24, 2020 Analysis of Sen. Warren and Sen. Sanders’ Wealth Tax Plans January 27, 2020 Measuring Marginal Effective Tax Rates on Capital Income Under Current Law January 15, 2020 Analysis of the Restoring Tax Fairness for States and Localities Act December 17, 2019 Comparing Wealth Taxation and Income Taxes December 9, 2019 See Full List Back to Staff Page
