Jon Bakiga

Assistant Professor of Economics

Office: Seeley 4
Webpage: http://wso.williams.edu/~jbakija
E-mail: Jon.M.Bakija@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-2325
Fax: (413)-597-4045
Department of Economics
Williams College
Fernald House
Williamstown, MA 01267

Education

University of Michigan, PhD, Economics, 2000
Wesleyan University, B.A., Government, 1990
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Fields of Specialization

Public finance
labor economics
applied econometricsm
economic effects of taxation
tax reform and social security reform
charitable giving.

Research

Jon Bakija, (with Joel Slemrod) Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen's Guide to the Debate Over Taxes. Cambridge: MIT Press. 1st edition published 1996; 2nd edition published 2000; 3rd edition 2004; Japanese language edition published 2003 by Konnichisha of Tokyo.

__________, (with Eugene Steuerle) Retooling Social Security for the 21st Century, Urban Institute Press, 1994

__________, (with William Gale and Joel Slemrod), "Charitable Bequests and Taxes on Inheritances and Estates: Aggregate Evidence from across States and Time," American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2003.

__________. (with William Gale). "Effects of Estate Tax Reform on Charitable Giving." Tax Notes. June 23, 2003, p. 1841. (also published as UrbanÐBrookings Tax Policy Center Issues and Options Paper No. 6, July 2003).

___________. (with Joel Slemrod). "Do the Rich Flee from High State Taxes: Evidence from Federal Estate Tax Returns." NBER Working Paper No. 10645, July 2004 (under review at Journal of Public Economics.)

__________, (with Joel Slemrod) "Growing Inequality and Decreased Tax Progressivity" in Kevin Hassett and R. Glenn Hubbard, eds., Inequality and Tax Policy, American Enterprise Institute Press, 2001.

__________, (with Eugene Steuerle) "Retooling Social Security for the 21st Century," Social Security Bulletin, Vol. 60, No. 2, 1997.

__________, (with Eugene Steuerle) "Social Security Disability Insurance: Fiscal Imbalance and Lifetime Value," Urban Institute Project Report, 1993.

__________, (with Eugene Steuerle) "Individual Income Taxation Since 1948," National Tax Journal, Vol. XLIV, No. 4, Part 2, 1991.

__________, "Distinguishing Transitory and Permanent Price Elasticities of Charitable Giving with Pre-Announced Changes in Tax Law," Williams College, 2000. (Revise and resubmit requested at Journal of Public Economics)

__________, "The Effect of Taxes on Portfolio Choice: Evidence from Panel Data Spanning the Tax Reform Act of 1986," Williams College, 2000. (Revise and resubmit requested at National Tax Journal).

Other

Selected Work Experience

Visiting Associate Analyst, Congressional Budget Office, 2003-2004.

Model-Okun Visiting Fellow in Economic Studies The Brookings Institution, 2002-2003.

Graduate Student Research Assistant Office of Tax Policy Research, University of Michigan School of Business, 1994-1998.

Research Associate The Urban Institute, 1990-1993.