Joel Brian Slemrod (born July 14, 1951) is an American economist and academic, currently serving as a professor of economics at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

and the Paul W. McCracken Collegiate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the

Education

He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

in 1973 and a Ph.D. in economics from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of highe ...

in 1980.

Career

Slemrod has served on the faculty of the

since 1987, and does research on taxation, with a focus on taxation of personal income. He is co-author of ''Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen's Guide to the Great Debate over Tax Reform'' and the editor of Does Atlas Shrug? The Economic Consequences of Taxing the Rich. Slemrod also serves as Director of the Office of Tax Policy Research, which is a research center at the University of Michigan on matters of tax policy. In 2001, Slemrod shared an

Ig Nobel Prize The Ig Nobel Prize ( ) is a satiric prize awarded annually since 1991 to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. Its aim is to "honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." The name o ...

with

Wojciech Kopczuk Wojciech Kopczuk is a professor of economics at Columbia University. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the ''Journal of Public Economics''. Biography Kopczuk received his BA and Msc from the University of Warsaw in 1996. He then received hi ...

, of

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

, for a paper concluding that people find a way to postpone their deaths if that would qualify them for a lower rate on the

inheritance tax An inheritance tax is a tax paid by a person who inherits money or property of a person who has died, whereas an estate tax is a levy on the estate (money and property) of a person who has died. International tax law distinguishes between an e ...

. In 2012, Slemrod was awarded the Daniel M. Holland Medal by the National Tax Association. Slemrod has authored op-ed articles for ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

'' and ''The Hill''. He has also been featured on

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and

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External links

Personal Website at the University of Michigan
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