Title
Professor of Economics

Department
Dept of Economics


Faculty URL
http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~saez/

Email
saez@econ.berkeley.edu

Phone
(510) 642-4631

Fax
(510) 642-6615


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Research Expertise and Interest
inequality, taxation, redistribution

Research Description
Emmanuel Saez is the E. Morris Cox Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Equitable Growth at the University of California Berkeley. His research focuses on tax policy and inequality both from theoretical and empirical perspectives. Jointly with Thomas Piketty, he has constructed long-run historical series of income inequality in the United States that have been widely discussed in the public debate. He received his PhD in Economics from MIT in 1999.