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EMMANUELSAEZ
ProfessorofEconomics
Director,CenterforEquitableGrowth

C U RRI C U LU M V IT AE

COURSESANDSEMINARS

EmmanuelSaez
saez@econ.berkeley.edu

Econ230B:GraduatePublicEconomics,Spring2016(withdownloadablelecturenotes)
Econ131:UndergraduatePublicEconomics,Spring2015(withdownloadablelecturenotes)
Econ231:PublicEconomicsSeminarandLunch,Spring2016(BerkeleyCalendar)
WEBSITES
TheWorldWealthandIncomeDatabasejointwithFacundoAlvaredo,TonyAtkinson,ThomasPiketty,and
GabrielZucmansinceJanuary2011
Bookandtaxreformwebsite:PouruneRvolutionFiscale:UnImptsurleRevenupourleXXImeSicle
(withCamilleLandaisandThomasPiketty),LeSeuil(140pages),January2011[inFrench]

UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley
DepartmentofEconomics
530EvansHall#3880

TheEqualityofOpportunityProject,withRajChetty,NathanHendren,andPatrickKline,revisedJanuary
2014

Berkeley,CA947203880
Tel:(510)6424631
Fax:(510)6430413
Office623,6thfloor
OfficeHours,Mondays122pm

I ncom e and Wealt h I nequalit y

Em pirical Tax and Public
Policy St udies
M acro Business Cycle
Opt im al Taxat ion and
Transf er Program s
Ret irem ent Savings

PhotoinfoandBio

PAPERSBYTOPIC
NeworRecentlyRevised
FINAL"WealthInequalityintheUnitedStatessince1913:EvidencefromCapitalizedIncomeTaxData"with
GabrielZucman,revisedOctober2015,forthcomingQuarterlyJournalofEconomics(AppendixFiguresand
Tablesinpdf)(oldversion,NBERWorkingPaperNo.20625,October2014)(Slides)(ExcelDatainZip)
(WebsiteandDetails)(WCEGSummary)
REVISED"TheOptimalUseofGovernmentPurchasesforMacroeconomicStabilization"withPascal
Michaillat,NBERWorkingPaperNo.21322,July2015,revisedAugust2015(Slides)
REVISED"AnEconomicalBusinessCycleModel"withPascalMichaillat,NBERWorkingPaperNo.19777,
January2014,revisedApril2015(Slides)
REVISED"AMacroeconomicApproachtoOptimalUnemploymentInsurance:Theory"and"A
MacroeconomicApproachtoOptimalUnemploymentInsurance:Applications"withCamilleLandaisand
PascalMichaillat,revisedandresubmittedAmericanEconomicJournal:EconomicPolicy,December2015
(olderversionNBERWorkingPaperNo.16526,November2010,revisedFebruary2015)(Slides)
NEW"BehavioralResponsestoTaxation:PreliminaryEvidencefromthe2013TaxIncrease"slidespresentedat
theNationalTaxAssociationMeetings,November2015

IncomeandWealthInequality
"IncomeInequalityintheUnitedStates,19131998"withThomasPiketty,QuarterlyJournalofEconomics,
118(1),2003,139(LongerupdatedversionpublishedinA.B.AtkinsonandT.Pikettyeds.,OxfordUniversity
Press,2007)(TablesandFiguresUpdatedto2014inExcelformat,June2015)
Summaryforthebroaderpublic"StrikingitRicher:TheEvolutionofTopIncomesintheUnitedStates",
updatedJune2015
FINAL"WealthInequalityintheUnitedStatessince1913:EvidencefromCapitalizedIncomeTaxData"with
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GabrielZucman,revisedOctober2015,forthcomingQuarterlyJournalofEconomics(AppendixFiguresand
Tablesinpdf)(oldversion,NBERWorkingPaperNo.20625,October2014)(Slides)(ExcelDatainZip)
(WebsiteandDetails)(WCEGSummary)
"TopIncomesintheLongRunofHistory"withTonyAtkinsonandThomasPiketty,JournalofEconomic
Literature,49(1),2011,371(TablesandFiguresinExcelformat)DataWebsite:TheWorldTopIncomes
Database.
SummaryArticle"InequalityintheLongRun"withThomasPiketty,Science344,2014,838843
SlidePresentation"IncomeandWealthInequality:EvidenceandPolicyImplications"NeubauerCollegium
Lecture,Chicago,October2014
"WhereistheLandofOpportunity?TheGeographyofIntergenerationalMobilityintheUnitedStates"with
RajChetty,NathanHendren,andPatrickKline,QuarterlyJournalofEconomics129(3),2014,15531623
(Slides)(WebsiteandData)(Summary)
"IstheUnitedStatesStillaLandofOpportunity?RecentTrendsinIntergenerationalMobility''withRaj
Chetty,NathanHendren,PatrickKline,andNicholasTurner,NBERWorkingPaperNo.19844,January2014
(shorterpublishedversionAmericanEconomicReview,PapersandProceedings,104(5),2014,141147)
(Slides)(WebsiteandData)(Summary)
OverviewArticle"TheTop1PercentinInternationalandHistoricalPerspective"withFacundoAlvaredo,
TonyAtkinsonandThomasPiketty,JournalofEconomicPerspectives27(3),2013,320
"TopIncomesandtheGreatRecession:RecentEvolutionsandPolicyImplications"withThomasPiketty,
InternationalMonetaryFundEconomicReview61(3),2013,456478
"InequalityatWork:TheEffectofPeerSalariesonJobSatisfaction"withDavidCard,AlexMas,andEnrico
Moretti,AmericanEconomicReview,102(6),2012,29813003(olderversionNBERWorkingPaperNo.
16396,revisedApril2011)(Slides)(NBERDigestsummary)
"EarningsInequalityandMobilityintheUnitedStates:EvidencefromSocialSecurityDatasince1937"with
WojciechKopczukandJaeSong,QuarterlyJournalofEconomics,125(1),2010,91128(Supplementary
OnlineAppendix)(Tablesandfiguresinelectronicformat)(OlderVersionNBERWorkingPaperNo.13345,
August2007)
"IncomeandWealthConcentrationinSpaininaHistoricalandFiscalPerspective"withFacundoAlvaredo,
JournaloftheEuropeanEconomicAssociation7(5),2009,11401167(longerversionpublishedinA.B.
AtkinsonandT.Pikettyeds.,OxfordUniversityPress,2010)(TablesandFiguresinExcelformat)
"TheEvolutionofIncomeConcentrationinJapan,18862005:EvidencefromIncomeTaxStatistics"with
ChiakiMoriguchi,ReviewofEconomicsandStatistics90(4),2008,713734(longerversionpublishedinA.B.
AtkinsonandT.Pikettyeds.,OxfordUniversityPress,2010)(TablesandFiguresinExcelformat)
"IncomeandWealthConcentrationinSwitzerlandoverthe20thCentury"withFabienDellandThomas
Piketty,CEPRDiscussionPaperNo.5090,May2005publishedinA.B.AtkinsonandT.Pikettyeds.,Oxford
UniversityPress,2007
"TheEvolutionofTopIncomes:AHistoricalandInternationalPerspective"withThomasPiketty,American
EconomicReview,PapersandProceedings,96(2),2006,200205(NBERWorkingPaperNo.11955version)
(FiguresinExcelformat)(NBERDigestsummary)
"IncomeConcentrationinaHistoricalandInternationalPerspective",publishedined.A.Auerbach,D.Card,
andJ.Quigley,PublicPolicyandIncomeDistribution,2006
"TopIncomesintheUnitedStatesandCanadaovertheTwentiethCentury",JournaloftheEuropean
EconomicAssociation,PapersandProceedings,3(23),2005,402411
"TheEvolutionofHighIncomesinNorthernAmerica:LessonsfromCanadianEvidence"withMichaelVeall,
AmericanEconomicReview,95(3),2005,831849(longerversion"TheEvolutionofHighIncomesinCanada,
19202000"publishedinA.B.AtkinsonandT.Pikettyeds.,OxfordUniversityPress,2007)(AllTablesand
FiguresinExcelformat)
"TopWealthSharesintheUnitedStates,19162000:EvidencefromEstateTaxReturns"withWojciech
Kopczuk,shortversionNationalTaxJournal,57(2),Part2,June2004,445487(longNBERWorkingPaper
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No.10399,March2004)(AllTablesandFiguresinexcelformat)
EmpiricalTaxandPublicPolicyStudies
NEW"BehavioralResponsestoTaxation:PreliminaryEvidencefromthe2013TaxIncrease"slidespresentedat
theNationalTaxAssociationMeetings,November2015
"HowElasticarePreferencesforRedistribution?EvidencefromRandomizedSurveyExperiments"withIlyana
Kuziemko,MichaelNorton,andStefanieStantcheva,AmericanEconomicReview105(4),2015,14781508
(Slides)(WCEGSummary)(DataandPrograms)
"WhatPoliciesIncreaseProsocialBehavior?AnExperimentwithRefereesattheJournalofPublicEconomics"
withRajChettyandLaszloSandor,JournalofEconomicPerspectives28(3),2014,169188(VOXsummary)
(Slides)(DataandPrograms)
"MigrationandWageEffectsofTaxingTopEarners:EvidencefromtheForeigners'TaxSchemeinDenmark"
withHenrikKleven,CamilleLandais,andEsbenSchultz,QuarterlyJournalofEconomics129(1),2014,333
378(oldversionNBERWorkingPaperNo.18885,March2013)(Slides)(VOXsummary)
"UsingDifferencesinKnowledgeAcrossNeighborhoodstoUncovertheImpactsoftheEITConEarnings"
withRajChettyandJohnFriedman,AmericanEconomicReview103(7),2013,26832721(Longerversion
NBERWorkingPaperNo.18232,July2012,revisedFebruary2013)(Slides)
"TaxationandInternationalMobilityofSuperstars:EvidencefromtheEuropeanFootballMarket"withHenrik
KlevenandCamilleLandais,AmericanEconomicReview103(5),2013,18921924(Slides)(Olderversion
NBERWorkingPaperNo.16545,November2010)(NBERDigestsummary)(DataandPrograms)
"TeachingtheTaxCode:EarningsResponsestoanExperimentwithEITCRecipients"withRajChetty,
AmericanEconomicJournal:AppliedEconomics5(1),2013,131(olderversionNBERWorkingPaperNo.
14836,April2009)(NBERDigestsummary)
"EarningsDeterminationandTaxes:EvidencefromaCohortBasedPayrollTaxReforminGreece"withManos
MatsaganisandPanosTsakloglou,QuarterlyJournalofEconomics127(1),2012,493533
"TheElasticityofTaxableIncomewithRespecttoMarginalTaxRates:ACriticalReview"withJoelSlemrod
andSethGiertz,JournalofEconomicLiterature50(1),2012,350(olderversionNBERWorkingPaperNo.
15012,May2009)
Bookandtaxreformwebsite:PouruneRvolutionFiscale:UnImptsurleRevenupourleXXImeSicle
(withCamilleLandaisandThomasPiketty),LeSeuil(140pages),January2011[inFrench]
"HowDoesYourKindergartenClassroomAffectYourEarnings?EvidencefromProjectSTAR",withRaj
Chetty,JohnFriedman,NathanielHilger,DianeSchanzenbach,andDannyYagan,QuarterlyJournalof
Economics126,2011,15931660(withsupplementaryappendix)(Slides)(Kappanarticlesummary)
"UnwillingorUnabletoCheat?EvidencefromaTaxAuditExperimentinDenmark"withHenrikKleven,
MartinKnudsen,ClausKreiner,andSorenPedersen,Econometrica79(3),2011,651692(olderversionNBER
WorkingPaperNo.15769,February2010)(NBERDigestsummary)
"ExpandingAccesstoAdministrativeDataforResearchintheUnitedStates"withDavidCard,RajChetty,and
MartinFeldstein,NSFwhitepaper,September2010(AnOpenLetteronExpandingAccesstoAdministrative
DataforResearchintheUnitedStates,July2010)
"DoTaxpayersBunchatKinkPoints?"AmericanEconomicJournal:EconomicPolicy2(3),2010,180212
(earlierversionNBERTAPESconferencedraft,June2002)(olderversionNBERWorkingPaperNo.7366,
1999)
"HowProgressiveistheU.S.Federaltaxsystem?AHistoricalandInternationalPerspective"withThomas
Piketty,JournalofEconomicPerspectives,21(1),324,Winter2007(longerversionNBERWorkingPaperNo.
12404,July2006)(AllTablesandFiguresinexcelformat)
"EarningsResponsestoIncreasesinPayrollTaxes"withJeffLiebman,September2006
"TheEffectsofTaxesonMarketResponsestoDividendAnnouncementsandPayments:WhatCanweLearn
fromthe2003DividendTaxCut?"withRajChettyandJoeRosenberg,NBERWorkingPaperNo.11452,June
2005publishedinA.AuerbachandJ.Slemrod,eds.TaxingCorporateIncomeinthe21stCentury,Cambridge
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UniversityPress,2007
"TheEffectofthe2003DividendTaxCutonCorporateBehavior:InterpretingtheEvidence"withRajChetty,
AmericanEconomicReview,PapersandProceedings,96(2),2006,124129
"DividendTaxesandCorporateBehavior:Evidencefromthe2003DividendTaxCut"withRajChetty,
QuarterlyJournalofEconomics,120(3),2005,791833(longerversionNBERWorkingPaperNo.10841,
October2004)(olderpreliminaryversion,NBERWorkingPaperNo.10572,June2004)(SomeTablesand
Figuresupdatedto2006Q2,November2006)(NBERDigestsummary)
"ReportedIncomesandMarginalTaxRates,19602000:EvidenceandPolicyImplications"Ed.J.PoterbaTax
PolicyandtheEconomy18,2004,117172(longerversionNBERWorkingPaperNo.10273,January2004)(All
TablesandFiguresinExcelformat)
"TheEffectofMarginalTaxRatesonIncome:APanelStudyof'BracketCreep'"JournalofPublicEconomics,
87,2003,12311258
"TheElasticityofTaxableIncome:EvidenceandImplications"withJonGruber,JournalofPublicEconomics,
84,2002,132(LongerversionNBERWorkingPaperNo.7512withOptimalTaxSimulations)(NBERDigest
summary)
MacroBusinessCycle
REVISED"TheOptimalUseofGovernmentPurchasesforMacroeconomicStabilization"withPascal
Michaillat,NBERWorkingPaperNo.21322,July2015,revisedAugust2015(Slides)
REVISED"AnEconomicalBusinessCycleModel"withPascalMichaillat,NBERWorkingPaperNo.19777,
January2014,revisedApril2015(Slides)
FINAL"AggregateDemand,IdleTime,andUnemployment"withPascalMichaillat,QuarterlyJournalof
Economics,130(2),2015,507569(Slides)(VOXsummary)(DataandPrograms)
REVISED"AMacroeconomicApproachtoOptimalUnemploymentInsurance:Theory"and"A
MacroeconomicApproachtoOptimalUnemploymentInsurance:Applications"withCamilleLandaisand
PascalMichaillat,revisedandresubmittedAmericanEconomicJournal:EconomicPolicy,December2015
(olderversionNBERWorkingPaperNo.16526,November2010,revisedFebruary2015)(Slides)

OptimalTaxationandTransferPrograms
FINAL"GeneralizedSocialMarginalWelfareWeightsforOptimalTaxTheory"withStefanieStantcheva,
AmericanEconomicReview106(1),2016,2445(Slides)(DataandPrograms)
FINAL"WhyCanModernGovernmentsTaxSoMuch?AnAgencyModelofFirmsasFiscalIntermediaries"
withHenrikKlevenandClausKreiner,revisedDecember2015,forthcomingEconomica(olderNBERWorking
Paperversion,August2009)
"OptimalTaxationofTopLaborIncomes:ATaleofThreeElasticities"withThomasPikettyandStefanie
Stantcheva,AmericanEconomicJournal:EconomicPolicy6(1),2014,230271(Slides)(VOXsummary)
(DataandPrograms)
"ATheoryofOptimalInheritanceTaxation"withThomasPiketty,Econometrica81(5),2013,18511886
(longerversion"ATheoryofOptimalCapitalTaxation",NBERWorkingPaperNo.17989,April2012)(Slides)
(excelfile)(DataandPrograms)
"OptimalLaborIncomeTaxation"withThomasPiketty,NBERWorkingPaperNo.18521,revisedDecember
2012,publishedinHandbookofPublicEconomics,Volume5,2013,391474
"OptimalProgressiveCapitalIncomeTaxesintheInfiniteHorizonModel"JournalofPublicEconomics97,
2013,6174
"OptimalMinimumWagePolicyinCompetitiveLaborMarkets"withDavidLee,JournalofPublicEconomics
96,2012,739749(olderversionNBERWorkingPaperNo.14320,September2008)
"TheCaseforaProgressiveTax:FromBasicResearchtoPolicyRecommendations"withPeterDiamond,
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JournalofEconomicPerspectives25(4),Fall2011,165190
"DividendandCorporateTaxationinanAgencyModeloftheFirm"withRajChetty,AmericanEconomic
Journal:EconomicPolicy2(3),2010,131(olderversion"AnAgencyTheoryofDividendTaxation"NBER
WorkingPaperNo.13538,October2007)
"OptimalTaxationandSocialInsurancewithEndogenousPrivateInsurance",jointwithRajChetty,American
EconomicJournal:EconomicPolicy2(2),2010,85116(olderversionNBERWorkingPaperNo.14403,
October2008)
"MeansTestingandTaxRatesonEarnings",jointwithMichaelBrewerandAndrewShephard,inThe
MirrleesReview:ReformingtheTaxSystemforthe21stCentury,OxfordUniversityPress,2010
"TheOptimalIncomeTaxationofCouples"withHenrikKlevenandClausKreiner,Econometrica77(2),2009,
537560(longerversionCESifoWorkingPaperNo.2092,September2007)(EarlierversionNBERWorking
PaperNo.12685,November2006)
"WelfareReforminEuropeanCountries:AMicroSimulationAnalysis",withHerwigImmervoll,Henrik
Kleven,andClausKreiner,EconomicJournal117(1),2007,144(olderversion,CEPRDiscussionPaperNo.
4324,March2004)(SimulationFileinExcelformat,October2005)(PressReleasesummary)
"RedistributionTowardLowIncomesinRicherCountries",Chapter13,inA.Banerjee,R.Benabou,andD.
Mookherjeeeds.UnderstandingPoverty(Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress),2006
"TheOptimalTreatmentofTaxExpenditures"JournalofPublicEconomics,88(12),2004,26572684
"DirectorIndirectTaxInstrumentsForRedistribution:ShortRunVersusLongRun"JournalofPublic
Economics,88,2004,503518
"OptimalIncomeTransferPrograms:IntensiveVersusExtensiveLaborSupplyResponses"QuarterlyJournal
ofEconomics,117,2002,10391073
"TheDesirabilityofCommodityTaxationUnderNonLinearIncomeTaxationandHeterogeneousTastes"
JournalofPublicEconomics,83,2002,217230
"UsingElasticitiestoDeriveOptimalIncomeTaxRates"ReviewofEconomicStudies,68,2001,205229
RetirementSavings
"DetailsMatter:TheImpactofPresentationandInformationontheTakeupofFinancialIncentivesfor
RetirementSaving",AmericanEconomicJournal:EconomicPolicy,1(1),2009,204228(EarlierVersion
CEPRDiscussionPaperNo.6386,July2007)
"SavingIncentivesforLowandMiddleIncomeFamilies:EvidencefromaFieldExperimentwithH&RBlock",
withEstherDuflo,WilliamGale,JeffreyLiebman,andPeterOrszag,QuarterlyJournalofEconomics,121(4),
13111346,2006(LongerversionNBERWorkingPaperNo.11680)(NBERDigestsummary)
"SavingsIncentivesforLowandModerateIncomeFamiliesintheUnitedStates:WhyistheSaver'sCredit
NotMoreEffective?",withEstherDuflo,WilliamGale,JeffreyLiebman,andPeterOrszag,Journalofthe
EuropeanEconomicAssociation,PapersandProceedings,5(23),647661,2007
"TheRoleofInformationandSocialInteractionsinRetirementPlanDecisions:EvidenceFromaRandomized
Experiment"withEstherDuflo,QuarterlyJournalofEconomics,118,2003,815842(LongerversionNBER
WorkingPaperNo.8885)
"ImplicationsofInformationandSocialInteractionsforRetirementSavingDecisions",withEstherDuflo,
PensionResearchCouncilWorkingPaper200313publishedinO.MitchellandS.Utkus,eds.,PensionDesign
andStructure:NewLessonsfromBehavioralFinance,2004
"ParticipationandInvestmentDecisionsinaRetirementPlan:theInfluenceofColleagues'choices"with
EstherDuflo,JournalofPublicEconomics,85,2002,121148

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