Gabriel Zucman
Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality
University of California, Berkeley
Gabriel Zucman is associate professor of public policy and economics at the University of California, Berkeley and director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality. He is also Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics and the Ecole Normale Supérieure.
Since 2015, he has worked as co-director of the World Inequality Lab and World Inequality Database, a database aiming at the provision of access to extensive data series on the world distribution of income and wealth. His research focuses on the accumulation, distribution, and preservation of wealth, in a global and historical perspective.
His research papers have been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Journal, and Journal of Public Economics, among other outlets. He earned his Ph.D. from the Paris School of Economics.
Funded Research
Authored by Gabriel Zucman
Tax evasion at the top of the U.S. income distribution and how to fight it (opens in a new tab)
Blog MAR 22, 2021
By: Daniel Reck, Max Risch, Gabriel Zucman
To prevent a long-term recession, make the U.S. government the payor of last resort now (opens in a new tab)
Blog MAR 27, 2020
By: Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman
Republican tax plan slams workers and job creators in favor of the rich and inherited wealth (opens in a new tab)
Blog NOV 7, 2017
By: Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman
Economic growth in the United States: A tale of two countries (opens in a new tab)
Issue Briefs DEC 6, 2016
By: Emmanuel Saez, Thomas Piketty, Gabriel Zucman
Exploding wealth inequality in the United States (opens in a new tab)
Blog OCT 20, 2014
By: Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman
Media Mentions
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s tax hike is not about soaking the rich (opens in a new tab)
In the News JAN 22, 2019
Media Mention in:
The New York Times
Gabriel Zucman’s Working Papers
Tax Evasion at the Top of the Income Distribution: Theory and Evidence (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers MAR 22, 2021
By: John Guyton, Patrick Langetieg, Daniel Reck, Max Risch, Gabriel Zucman
Simplified distributional national accounts (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers JAN 28, 2019
By: Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman
Distributional national accounts: Methods and estimates for the United States (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers DEC 6, 2016
By: Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman
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