Dear RSF:

Please join us in the library on Wednesday, December 11 at 11:00 for a presentation by Visiting Scholar Wojciech Kopczuk, “Intergenerational Wealth Formation Over the Life-Cycle: Evidence from Danish Wealth Records 1984-2013.”

Kopczuk received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 2001 and a B.A. in Economics and M.S. in Computer Science from Warsaw University in 1996.   He is currently a Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.  Kopczuk has held academic appointments at Columbia since 2003.  He is a member of the National Tax Journal’s Advisory Board and Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Economics. 

At RSF, Kopczuk is working on several articles measuring trends in income inequality.  Using corporate tax data from both the United States and the United Kingdom, he is analyzing the extent to which retained corporate earnings have affected prior measurements of income at the top of the distribution, and exploring how the movements of high-income and high skilled migrants have affected trends in income inequality in both their destination and origin countries.