Education
He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in 1973 and a Doctor of Philosophy in economics from Harvard University in 1980.
He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in 1973 and a Doctor of Philosophy in economics from Harvard University in 1980.
He has been at Michigan since 1987 and does research on taxation, with a focus on taxation of personal income. He is co-author with Jon Bakija of Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen"s Guide to the Great Debate over Tax Reform and is editor of Does Atlas Shrug? The Economic Consequences of Taxing the Rich. He is currently the chair of the Economics department at the University of Michigan.
Doctor Slemrod also serves as Director of the Office of Tax Policy Research, which is a research center at the University of Michigan on matters of tax policy.