Wojciech Kopczuk
Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs
Personal Details
Focus areas: Tax policy, income and wealth inequality
Wojciech Kopczuk is a professor at SIPA and the Department of Economics. Kopczuk's research focus is on issues related to tax policy and income and wealth inequality. His work has been published in top economics journals, including American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy and Review of Economic Studies. He is a co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics and associate editor of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Click here for a full list of publications.
Kopczuk holds a BA in Economics and an MSc in Computer Science from Warsaw University, and an MA and PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan.
Education
- PhD in Economics, University of Michigan
- MA in Economics, University of Michigan
- MSc in Computer Science, Warsaw University
- BA in Economics, Warsaw University
Research And Publications
In The Media
Barnwal’s work examined an Indian government program that subsidizes the purchase of cooking gas for home use.
Subject “has received a lot of renewed attention,” says SIPA’s Jan Svejnar.
The honor, which recognizes young scholars for “distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field,” brings $50,000 in research support.
Each year SIPA faculty members publish scholarly articles and new books on a wide range of subjects.