Kim Rueben
Adjunct Fellow
Expertise: State and local finance
Kim Rueben is an adjunct fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California and a senior advisor to the Land and Fiscal Systems impact area of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and also first vice president of the National Tax Association. Her work examines state and local public finance and focuses on state budget and tax issues, intergovernmental relations, fiscal institutions, and the economics of education, including federal and state financing of K–12 and postsecondary education and how decisions affect individuals in different states. She has served on several state tax advisory boards and has testified before congressional and state legislative committees. Previously, she was the Sol Price Fellow and director of the State and Local Finance Initiative at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center and also a research fellow at PPIC. She received a BS in applied math–economics from Brown University, an MS in economics from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
