Jakob Brounstein is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Institute for Fiscal Studies working on issues in public and labor economics.
His research mainly deals with tax avoidance/evasion and inequality, but his work also extends more broadly to the application of microeconomic and econometric methods to learning about pertinent social issues. His tax-related focuses include anti tax haven policy evaluation, tax non-compliance, and individual and corporate usage of tax preparers. His non-tax-related research interests focus on different margins of inequality as well as applied urban topics, including work on the Pink Tax, Housing First program evaluation, and the long-run impacts of arts funding.
Education
PhD Public Economics and Labor Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 2023
BA Economics and Mathematics, Columbia University, 2017
BA Social Science, L’institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, 2016