Gabriel Zucman was born on 30 October 1986 and is a French economist who is currently an associate professor of public policy and economics at the University of California, Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy.
18 Facts About Gabriel Zucman
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The author of The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens, Zucman is known for his research on tax havens and corporate tax havens.
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Gabriel Zucman's papers are some of the most cited papers on research into tax havens.
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Gabriel Zucman is known for his work on the quantification of the financial scale of base erosion and profit shifting tax avoidance techniques employed by multinationals in corporate tax havens, through which he identified Ireland as the world's largest corporate tax haven in 2018.
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In 2018, Gabriel Zucman was the recipient of the Prize for the Best Young Economist in France, awarded by the Cercle des economistes and Le Monde in recognition of his research on tax evasion and avoidance and their economic consequences.
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Gabriel Zucman was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 2023, a prize for economists under the age of 40.
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Gabriel Zucman was born in Paris in 1986, and is the son of two French doctors.
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Gabriel Zucman's mother is an immunology researcher while his father treats HIV patients.
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In interviews, Gabriel Zucman describes the "traumatic political event of my youth", as being when Jean-Marie Le Pen reached the final rounds of the 2002 French presidential election, when Gabriel Zucman was 15.
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From 2005 to 2010, Gabriel Zucman attended the Ecole normale superieure de Cachan, one of France's prestigious Grandes Ecoles.
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Besides his research and teaching activities, Gabriel Zucman has refereed for several economic journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, Econometrica, and the Journal of Political Economy.
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Gabriel Zucman is recognized as one of the world's leading experts on tax evasion, but has made contributions to the field of public economics more broadly.
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Much of Gabriel Zucman's research is on issues of economic inequality.
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In 2015 in his book, The Hidden Wealth of Nations, Gabriel Zucman uses the systematic anomalies in international investment positions to show that the net foreign asset positions of rich countries are generally underestimated because they don't capture most of the assets held by households in offshore tax havens.
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Gabriel Zucman is frequently quoted in the leading global news media.
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Gabriel Zucman is married to the French economist Claire Montialoux, whom he met in 2006.
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In May 2020, Gabriel Zucman criticized White House Advisor Kevin Hassett's usage of the term "human capital stock", claiming it "only makes sense in the context of slave societies".
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Twitter users discovered that Gabriel Zucman himself used the term in his own academic work, which has since been revised.