Wojciech Kopczuk
{{Short description|Polish economist and academic}}
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University of Michigan (MA, PhD)
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Wojciech Kopczuk is a professor of economics at Columbia University.{{Cite web |title=Wojciech Kopczuk {{!}} Columbia SIPA |url=https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/wojciech-kopczuk |access-date=2022-05-17 |website=www.sipa.columbia.edu |language=en}} He is currently the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Economics.{{Cite web |date=2019-04-03 |title=Friedman named Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Public Economics |url=https://opportunityinsights.org/updates/friedman-named-editor-in-chief-of-journal-of-public-economics/ |access-date=2022-05-17 |website=Opportunity Insights}}
Biography
Kopczuk received his BA and Msc from the University of Warsaw in 1996. He then received his MA and PhD from the University of Michigan. He taught at the University of British Columbia before joining Columbia University's faculty in 2003.{{Cite web |title=Wojciech Kopczuk |url=http://www.columbia.edu/~wk2110/bin/cv.pdf |access-date=May 17, 2022}} He is also a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research's Public Economics program.{{Cite web |title=Wojciech Kopczuk |url=https://www.nber.org/people/wojciech_kopczuk |access-date=2022-05-17 |website=NBER |language=en}} His research has focused on tax policy and income and wealth inequality.{{Cite web |date=2020-05-12 |title=A Conversation on Wealth Inequality And Wealth Tax |url=https://economics21.org/html/conversations-e21-wojciech-kopczuk-wealth-taxes-3541.html |access-date=2022-05-17 |website=Economics21 |language=en}} Kopczuk is a critic of the wealth tax.{{Cite news |last1=Kopczuk |first1=Wojciech |last2=Schrager |first2=Allison |date=2022-01-18 |title=The Inequality Illusion |language=en-US |url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2014-05-15/inequality-illusion |access-date=2022-05-17 |issn=0015-7120}}{{Cite web |title=Taxing the rich |url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/taxing-rich |access-date=2022-05-17 |website=Penn Today |date=22 October 2021 |language=en}}{{Cite news |last1=Tankersley |first1=Jim |last2=Casselman |first2=Ben |date=2020-02-21 |title=The Liberal Economists Behind the Wealth Tax Debate |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/21/us/politics/the-liberal-economists-behind-the-wealth-tax-debate.html |access-date=2022-05-17 |issn=0362-4331}}
Kopczuk became editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Economics in September 2017.
He received an Ig Nobel Prize in 2001 for discovering that people will try to postpone their own deaths to avoid the inheritance tax.{{Cite news |date=2016-10-12 |title=The Ig Nobel prizes: in praise of ridiculous research |work=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/eec04586-8b4d-11e6-8cb7-e7ada1d123b1 |access-date=2022-05-17}}{{Cite web |title=Business prof wins not so noble Nobel |url=https://ur.umich.edu/0102/Oct15_01/12.htm |access-date=2022-05-17 |website=ur.umich.edu}}
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Category:University of Warsaw alumni
Category:University of Michigan alumni
Category:Academic staff of the University of British Columbia