Anders Jensen is Associate Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and Research Co-Director of the State Programme at the International Growth Centre (IGC). He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), an International Research Associate at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), an Affiliated Researcher of the Digital Identification and Finance Initiative in Africa, J‐PAL2020, a Faculty Affiliate at the Center for African Studies (Harvard), and a Faculty Associate of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (Harvard).

His research focuses on public economics and development economics. One set of projects seeks to study the factors that shape the capacity to tax and the choice of tax policy over the long run of development. A second line of work consists in working with tax authorities and other government departments in developing countries - these projects study what governments can do, given constrained capacity to tax, to incrementally improve tax administration, tax enforcement, tax policy, and tax morale. Internationally respected, his work has received substantial support, notably from the International Growth Centre, J-PAL, and the USAID Development Innovation Ventures. 

Anders Jensen's website

He will present a paper, joint with James Dzansi, David Lagakos, and  Henry Telli, at the next Departmental Seminar on the topic:

Technology and Tax Capacity: Evidence from Local Governments in Ghana (read paper, PDF xx MB)

The next Departmental Seminar will host Leonard GOFF (University of Calgary) on December 8th.