Emmanuel Saez
saez@econ.berkeley.edu



University of California, Berkeley
Department of Economics
530 Evans Hall # 3880
Berkeley, CA 94720-3880
Tel:(510) 642-4631
Fax:(510) 643-0413
Office 623, 6th floor

EMMANUEL SAEZ

E. Morris Cox Professor of Economics
Director, Center for Equitable Growth

CURRICULUM VITAE

COURSES AND SEMINARS

Econ 230B: Graduate Public Economics, Spring 2012 (with downloadable lecture notes)
Econ 231: Public Economics Seminar, Spring 2012 (Berkeley Calendar) (Schedule in pdf)

WEBSITES

The World Top Incomes Database joint with Facundo Alvaredo, Tony Atkinson, and Thomas Piketty, January 2011

Book and tax reform website: Pour une Révolution Fiscale: Un Impôt sur le Revenu pour le XXIème Siècle (with Camille Landais and Thomas Piketty), Le Seuil (140 pages), January 2011 [in French]

PAPERS BY TOPIC

New or Recently Revised

NEW "Using Differences in Knowledge Across Neighborhoods to Uncover the Impacts of the EITC on Earnings" with Raj Chetty and John Friedman, preliminary slides, September 2011

NEW "Optimal Taxation of Top Labor Incomes: A Tale of Three Elasticities" with Thomas Piketty and Stefanie Stantcheva, NBER Working Paper No. 17616, November 2011 (Slides) (VOX summary for the broader public) (Data and Programs)

NEW "A Theory of Optimal Capital Taxation" with Thomas Piketty, preliminary draft, November 2011 (Slides)

NEW "Taxation and International Migration of Top Earners: Evidence from the Foreigner Tax Scheme in Denmark" with Henrik Kleven, Camille Landais, and Esben Schultz, preliminary draft, November 2011

REVISED "Optimal Unemployment Insurance over the Business Cycle" with Camille Landais and Pascal Michaillat, NBER Working Paper No. 16526, November 2010, revised August 2011 (Slides) (Matlab Code)

Income and Wealth Inequality

"Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998" with Thomas Piketty, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118(1), 2003, 1-39 (Longer updated version published in A.B. Atkinson and T. Piketty eds., Oxford University Press, 2007) (Tables and Figures Updated to 2008 in Excel format, July 2010)

Summary for the broader public "Striking it Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States", updated July 2010

Has Inequality Increased in the US? Response to Alan Reynolds' article in WSJ criticizing our estimates, January 2006

"Top Incomes in the Long Run of History" with Tony Atkinson and Thomas Piketty, Journal of Economic Literature, 49(1), 2011, 3-71 (Tables and Figures in Excel format) Data Website: The World Top Incomes Database.

FINALIZED "Inequality at Work: The Effect of Peer Salaries on Job Satisfaction" with David Card, Alex Mas, and Enrico Moretti, revised November 2011, forthcoming American Economic Review (older version NBER Working Paper No. 16396, revised April 2011) (Slides) (NBER Digest summary for the broader public)

"Earnings Inequality and Mobility in the United States: Evidence from Social Security Data since 1937" with Wojciech Kopczuk and Jae Song, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125(1), 2010, 91-128 (Supplementary Online Appendix) (Tables and figures in electronic format) (Older Version NBER Working Paper No. 13345, August 2007)

"The Evolution of Top Incomes: A Historical and International Perspective" with Thomas Piketty, American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 96(2), 2006, 200-205 (NBER Working Paper No. 11955 version) (Figures in Excel format) (NBER Digest summary for the broader public)

"Income and Wealth Concentration in Spain in a Historical and Fiscal Perspective" with Facundo Alvaredo, Journal of the European Economic Association 7(5), 2009, 1140–1167 (longer version published in A.B. Atkinson and T. Piketty eds., Oxford University Press, 2010) (Tables and Figures in Excel format)

"The Evolution of Income Concentration in Japan, 1886-2005: Evidence from Income Tax Statistics" with Chiaki Moriguchi, Review of Economics and Statistics 90(4), 2008, 713-734 (longer version published in A.B. Atkinson and T. Piketty eds., Oxford University Press, 2010) (Tables and Figures in Excel format)

"Income and Wealth Concentration in Switzerland over the 20th Century" with Fabien Dell and Thomas Piketty, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5090, May 2005 published in A.B. Atkinson and T. Piketty eds., Oxford University Press, 2007

"Income Concentration in a Historical and International Perspective", published in ed. A. Auerbach, D. Card, and J. Quigley, Public Policy and Income Distribution, 2006

"Top Incomes in the United States and Canada over the Twentieth Century", Journal of the European Economic Association, Papers and Proceedings, 3(2-3), 2005, 402-411

"The Evolution of High Incomes in Northern America: Lessons from Canadian Evidence" with Michael Veall, American Economic Review, 95(3), 2005, 831-849 (longer version "The Evolution of High Incomes in Canada, 1920-2000" published in A.B. Atkinson and T. Piketty eds., Oxford University Press, 2007) (All Tables and Figures in Excel format)

"Top Wealth Shares in the United States, 1916-2000: Evidence from Estate Tax Returns" with Wojciech Kopczuk, short version National Tax Journal, 57(2), Part 2, June 2004, 445-487 (long NBER Working Paper No. 10399, March 2004) (All Tables and Figures in excel format)

Empirical Tax and Public Policy Studies

NEW "Using Differences in Knowledge Across Neighborhoods to Uncover the Impacts of the EITC on Earnings" with Raj Chetty and John Friedman, preliminary slides, September 2011

NEW "Taxation and International Migration of Top Earners: Evidence from the Foreigner Tax Scheme in Denmark" with Henrik Kleven, Camille Landais, and Esben Schultz, preliminary draft, November 2011

"Taxation and International Mobility of Superstars: Evidence from the European Football Market" with Henrik Kleven and Camille Landais, revised June 2011 (Slides) (Older Version NBER Working Paper No. 16545, November 2010) (NBER Digest summary for the broader public)

"Earnings Determination and Taxes: Evidence from a Cohort Based Payroll Tax Reform in Greece" with Manos Matsaganis and Panos Tsakloglou, Quarterly Journal of Economics 127(1), 2012, 493-533

"Teaching the Tax Code: Earnings Responses to an Experiment with EITC Recipients" with Raj Chetty, revised April 2011 (older version NBER Working Paper No. 14836, April 2009) (NBER Digest summary for the broader public)

Book and tax reform website: Pour une Révolution Fiscale: Un Impôt sur le Revenu pour le XXIème Siècle (with Camille Landais and Thomas Piketty), Le Seuil (140 pages), January 2011 [in French]

"How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project STAR", with Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Nathaniel Hilger, Diane Schanzenbach, and Danny Yagan, Quarterly Journal of Economics 126, 2011, 1593-1660 (with supplementary appendix) (Slides) (Kappan article summary for the broader public)

"The Elasticity of Taxable Income with Respect to Marginal Tax Rates: A Critical Review" with Joel Slemrod and Seth Giertz, revised in August 2010 forthcoming Journal of Economic Literature (older version NBER Working Paper No. 15012, May 2009)

"Unwilling or Unable to Cheat? Evidence from a Tax Audit Experiment in Denmark" with Henrik Kleven, Martin Knudsen, Claus Kreiner, and Soren Pedersen, Econometrica 79(3), 2011, 651-692 (older version NBER Working Paper No. 15769, February 2010) (NBER Digest summary for the broader public)

"Expanding Access to Administrative Data for Research in the United States" with David Card, Raj Chetty, and Martin Feldstein, NSF white paper, September 2010 (An Open Letter on Expanding Access to Administrative Data for Research in the United States, July 2010)

"Do Taxpayers Bunch at Kink Points?" American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 2(3), 2010, 180-212 (earlier version NBER-TAPES conference draft, June 2002) (older version NBER Working Paper No. 7366, 1999)

"Earnings Responses to Increases in Payroll Taxes" with Jeff Liebman, September 2006

"How Progressive is the U.S. Federal tax system? A Historical and International Perspective" with Thomas Piketty, Journal of Economic Perspectives , 21(1), 3-24, Winter 2007 (longer version NBER Working Paper No. 12404, July 2006) (All Tables and Figures in excel format)

"The Effect of the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut on Corporate Behavior: Interpreting the Evidence" with Raj Chetty, American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 96(2), 2006, 124-129

"The Effects of Taxes on Market Responses to Dividend Announcements and Payments: What Can we Learn from the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut?" with Raj Chetty and Joe Rosenberg, NBER Working Paper No. 11452, June 2005 published in A. Auerbach and J. Slemrod, eds. Taxing Corporate Income in the 21st Century, Cambridge University Press, 2007

"Dividend Taxes and Corporate Behavior: Evidence from the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut" with Raj Chetty, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120(3), 2005, 791-833 (longer version NBER Working Paper No. 10841, October 2004) (older preliminary version, NBER Working Paper No. 10572, June 2004) (Some Tables and Figures updated to 2006-Q2, November 2006) (NBER Digest summary for the broader public)

"Reported Incomes and Marginal Tax Rates, 1960-2000: Evidence and Policy Implications" Ed. J. Poterba Tax Policy and the Economy 18, 2004, 117-172 (longer version NBER Working Paper No. 10273, January 2004) (All Tables and Figures in Excel format)

"The Effect of Marginal Tax Rates on Income: A Panel Study of 'Bracket Creep'" Journal of Public Economics, 87, 2003, 1231-1258

"The Elasticity of Taxable Income: Evidence and Implications" with Jon Gruber, Journal of Public Economics, 84, 2002, 1-32 (Longer version NBER Working Paper No. 7512 with Optimal Tax Simulations) (NBER Digest summary for the broader public)

Optimal Taxation and Transfer Programs

NEW "Optimal Taxation of Top Labor Incomes: A Tale of Three Elasticities" with Thomas Piketty and Stefanie Stantcheva, NBER Working Paper No. 17616, November 2011 (Slides) (VOX summary for the broader public) (Data and Programs)

NEW "A Theory of Optimal Capital Taxation" with Thomas Piketty, preliminary draft, November 2011 (Slides)

REVISED "Optimal Unemployment Insurance over the Business Cycle" with Camille Landais and Pascal Michaillat, NBER Working Paper No. 16526, November 2010, revised August 2011 (Slides) (Matlab Code)

FINALIZED "The Case for a Progressive Tax: From Basic Research to Policy Recommendations" with Peter Diamond, Journal of Economic Perspectives 25(4), Fall 2011, 165-190

"Optimal Minimum Wage in Competitive Labor Markets", with David Lee, revised January 2010 (older version NBER Working Paper No. 14320, September 2008)

"Why Can Modern Governments Tax So Much? An Agency Model of Firms as Fiscal Intermediaries" with Henrik Kleven and Claus Kreiner, NBER Working Paper No. 15218, August 2009

"Optimal Progressive Capital Income Taxes in the Infinite Horizon Model" NBER Working Paper No. 9046, July 2002

"Dividend and Corporate Taxation in an Agency Model of the Firm" with Raj Chetty, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 2(3), 2010, 1-31 (older version "An Agency Theory of Dividend Taxation" NBER Working Paper No. 13538, October 2007)

"Optimal Taxation and Social Insurance with Endogenous Private Insurance", joint with Raj Chetty, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 2(2), 2010, 85-116 (older version NBER Working Paper No. 14403, October 2008)

"The Optimal Income Taxation of Couples" with Henrik Kleven and Claus Kreiner, Econometrica 77(2), 2009, 537-560 (longer version CESifo Working Paper No. 2092, September 2007) (Earlier version NBER Working Paper No. 12685, November 2006)

"Means Testing and Tax Rates on Earnings", joint with Michael Brewer and Andrew Shephard, in The Mirrlees Review: Reforming the Tax System for the 21st Century, Oxford University Press, 2010

"Welfare Reform in European Countries: A Micro-Simulation Analysis", with Herwig Immervoll, Henrik Kleven, and Claus Kreiner, Economic Journal 117(1), 2007, 1-44 (older version, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 4324, March 2004) (Simulation File in Excel format, October 2005) (Press Release summary for the broader public)

"Redistribution Toward Low Incomes in Richer Countries", Chapter 13, in A. Banerjee, R. Benabou, and D. Mookherjee eds. Understanding Poverty (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2006

"The Optimal Treatment of Tax Expenditures" Journal of Public Economics, 88(12), 2004, 2657-2684

"Direct or Indirect Tax Instruments For Redistribution: Short-Run Versus Long-Run" Journal of Public Economics, 88, 2004, 503-518

"Optimal Income Transfer Programs:Intensive Versus Extensive Labor Supply Responses" Quarterly Journal of Economics, 117, 2002, 1039-1073

"The Desirability of Commodity Taxation Under Non-Linear Income Taxation and Heterogeneous Tastes" Journal of Public Economics, 83, 2002, 217-230

"Using Elasticities to Derive Optimal Income Tax Rates" Review of Economic Studies, 68, 2001, 205-229

Retirement Savings

"Details Matter: The Impact of Presentation and Information on the Take-up of Financial Incentives for Retirement Saving", American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 1(1), 2009, 204-228 (Earlier Version CEPR Discussion Paper No. 6386, July 2007)

"Saving Incentives for Low- and Middle-Income Families: Evidence from a Field Experiment with H&R Block", with Esther Duflo, William Gale, Jeffrey Liebman, and Peter Orszag, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 121(4), 1311-1346, 2006 (Longer version NBER Working Paper No. 11680) (NBER Digest summary for the broader public)

"Savings Incentives for Low- and Moderate-Income Families in the United States: Why is the Saver's Credit Not More Effective?", with Esther Duflo, William Gale, Jeffrey Liebman, and Peter Orszag, Journal of the European Economic Association, Papers and Proceedings, 5(2-3), 647-661, 2007

"The Role of Information and Social Interactions in Retirement Plan Decisions: Evidence From a Randomized Experiment" with Esther Duflo, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118, 2003, 815-842 (Longer version NBER Working Paper No. 8885)

"Implications of Information and Social Interactions for Retirement Saving Decisions", with Esther Duflo, Pension Research Council Working Paper 2003-13 published in O. Mitchell and S. Utkus, eds., Pension Design and Structure: New Lessons from Behavioral Finance, 2004

"Participation and Investment Decisions in a Retirement Plan: the Influence of Colleagues' choices" with Esther Duflo, Journal of Public Economics, 85, 2002, 121-148