Danny Yagan

Danny Yagan is the Robert D. Burch Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Economics. His research focuses on Public Economics, with particular interests in Taxes and investment, Income inequality, and Employment in recessions. Yagan is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Associate Director of the Berkeley Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance, and Faculty Co-Director of the Taxation and Inequality Initiative of the Berkeley Opportunity Lab. He joined the department after earning a BA summa cum laude and a PhD in economics from Harvard. Contact details are available via email at yagan@berkeley.edu.

Danny Yagan is an Associate Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley, specializing in economics with a focus on topics such as income segregation, intergenerational mobility, and tax policy. His research explores how early educational experiences, such as those in kindergarten, influence long-term earnings and how capital taxation affects the real economy. Yagan also investigates trends in spatial inequality, the role of pass-through businesses in the labor market, and the tax behavior of high-income individuals. His work often leverages administrative data to inform evidence-based policy, as seen in his analysis of the SOI Databank and the impact of the 2003 dividend tax cut. His research provides insights into the determinants of economic inequality and the effectiveness of fiscal policies.