Expertise
Budget and fiscal policy;Public and private pensions;Saving behavior;Tax policy;Transfers of wealth between generations
Background
Past Positions
Joseph A. Pechman Fellow, Brookings (1992-2001);Senior Staff Economist, President's Council of Economic Advisers (1991-92);Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles (1987-91)
Education
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1987;B.A., Duke University, 1981
"The thing about taxes is we will have to do something in the first 2 years of the next administration. We will either let the tax cuts expire, we'll extend them, or we'll change the tax system around."