Bren Fellow
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curriculum vitae

Expertise
• Taxes and economic behavior
   Capital income tax
   Saving and investment
   Fiscal policy responses to recession
• Tax design and tax reform
   Federal and state tax reform
   Federal-state relations
• Government budgets
   Budget imbalances
   Demographic change and government finances

Experience
Robert D. Burch Professor of Economics and Law, and Director of the Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance, University of California, Berkeley (1994-present). Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (1978-present). Editor, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (2007-present). Visiting Professor of Law, New York University (2009, 2006). Chair, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley (2001-2002, 1998). Deputy Chief of Staff, United States Joint Committee on Taxation (1992). Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania (1990-1995). Chair, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania (1988-1990). Visiting Professor of Economics, Harvard University (1986-1987). Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania (1985-1995). Associate Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania (1983-1985). Visiting Associate Professor of Economics and Irving Fisher Research Fellow, Yale University (1983). Associate Professor of Economics, Harvard University (1982-1983). Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard University (1978-1982).

Selected Publications
Ph.D. (1978), economics, Harvard University. M.A. (1974), economics and mathematics, Yale University.