Jacob Goldin

Jacob Goldin is the Richard M. Lipton Professor of Tax Law at the University of Chicago Law School, a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Trained as a lawyer and economist, much of Goldin’s research focuses on U.S. tax administration and on tax policy affecting low-income households. Goldin previously worked in the Office of Tax Policy at the U.S. Treasury Department and was a professor of law at Stanford Law School. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.