Wojciech Kopczuk is a professor of economics at

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 ...

. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the ''

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''.

Biography

Kopczuk received his BA and Msc from the

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw ( pl, Uniwersytet Warszawski, la, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public university in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country offering 37 different fields o ...

in 1996. He then received his MA and PhD from 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 ...

. He taught at the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks among the top thre ...

before joining Columbia University's faculty in 2003. He is also a research associate with the

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's Public Economics program. His research has focused on tax policy and income and wealth inequality. Kopczuk is a critic of the

wealth tax A wealth tax (also called a capital tax or equity tax) is a tax on an entity's holdings of assets. This includes the total value of personal assets, including cash, bank deposits, real estate, assets in insurance and pension plans, ownershi ...

. Kopczuk became editor-in-chief of the ''

'' in September 2017. He received an

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in 2001 for discovering that people will try to postpone their own deaths to avoid the inheritance tax.

References

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