Emmanuel Saez

Professor

Fields: Public Economics

Research interests: Dynamics of income inequality; retirement plan decisions; capital income taxation; behavioral responses to taxation; optimal income taxation; social insurance

Emmanuel Saez joined the Berkeley faculty in 2002 as assistant professor. He became a full professor in 2005. Currently he is a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies at Stanford. He was a national fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution in 2004-2005. Professor Saez also is a research associate with NBER and a research fellow with CEPR and CESifo. He recently won the Purvis Memorial Prize of the Canadian Economic Association for best publication of the year on the Canadian economy for his 2005 publication "The Evolution of High Incomes in Northern America: Lessons from the Canadian Evidence" (with Michael Veall). His other honors include a nomination for the Best Young French Economist Prize, recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Research fellowship, the CESifo prize in Public Economics for best paper by a young scholar for "Optimal Income Transfer Programs: Intensive Versus Extensive Labor Supply Responses," and winner of the Best Graduate Teacher Award from the Berkeley Economic Graduate Students Association. Professor Saez is currently editor of the Journal of Public Economics and associate editor of International Tax and Public Finance. He earned his PhD at MIT in 1999. Prior to coming to Berkeley he taught at Harvard.