Jacob Goldin Leaves Stanford For Chicago

Jacob Goldin (Stanford; Google Scholar) has accepted a lateral offer from Chicago:

Trained as a lawyer and economist, his research focuses on the taxation of low income households and the application of behavioral economics to the design of policy. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty in 2016, Professor Goldin worked in the Office of Tax Policy at the U.S. Treasury Department and 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.

His recent publications include:

• Whose Child is this? Improving Child-Claiming Rules in Safety Net Programs, 131 Yale L. J. ___ (2022) (with Ariel Jurow Kleiman (Loyola-L.A.))
• The Claiming of Children on U.S. Tax Returns, 2017-2019 (with Geoffrey Gee (U.S. Treasury Department, Office of Tax Analysis), Joseph Hancuch (U.S. Treasury Department, Office of Tax Analysis), Ithai Lurie (U.S. Treasury Department, Office of Tax Analysis) & Vedant Vohra (Stanford))
• Health Insurance and Mortality: Experimental Evidence from Taxpayer Outreach, 136 Q. J. Econ. (2021) (with Ithai Z Lurie (U.S. Treasury Department, Office of Tax Analysis) & Janet McCubbin (U.S. Treasury Department, Office of Tax Analysis))

• Estimating the Net Fiscal Cost of a Child Tax Credit Expansion (NBER 2021) (with Elaine Maag (Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center) & Katherine Michelmore (Michigan))
• Who Benefits from the Child Tax Credit (NBER 2021) (with Katherine Michelmore (Michigan))
• Sharp Lines and Sliding Scales in Tax Law, 73 Tax L. Rev. 237 (2020) (with Edward Fox (Michigan))
• Communicating Tax Penalties to Delinquent Taxpayers: Evidence from a Field Experiment, 73 Nat'l Tax J. 331 (2020) (with Taylor Cranor (Yale), Tatiana Homonoff (NYU) & Lindsay Moore (Behavioral Insights Team))
• How Much to Save? Decision Costs and Retirement Plan Participation, 191 J. Pub. Econ. 1 (2020) (with Tatiana Homonoff (NYU), Richard Patterson (BYU) & William Skimmyhorn (William & Mary))
• Tax Benefit Complexity and Take-Up: Lessons from the Earned Income Tax Credit, 72  72 Tax L. Rev. 59 (2019)