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Bill Gale, Vice President and Director of Economic Studies for the Brookings Institution. Bill Gale is the vice president and director of Economic Studies and holds the Arjay and Frances Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy. He conducts research on a variety of economic issues, including tax policy, fiscal policy, pensions and savings behavior. He is also co-director of the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of Brookings and the Urban Institute. Before joining Brookings, Gale was an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California at Los Angeles, and a senior staff economist for the Council of Economic Advisers. He has also served as a consultant to the General Accounting Office and the World Bank.
Gale is co-editor of Private Pensions and Public Policy (2004), Rethinking Estate and Gift Taxation (2001), Economic Effects of Fundamental Tax Reform (1996), the Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs (1999-present) and The Evolving Pension System: Trends, Effects, and Proposals for Reform (forthcoming), all published by Brookings.
Gale is author or co-author of numerous academic articles including: "An Economic Evaluation of EGTRRA," National Tax Journal (2002), "Perspectives on the Budget Surplus," National Tax Journal (2000), "The Adequacy of Retirement Saving," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (1999), "The Effects of Pensions on Household Wealth," Journal of Political Economy, (August 1998), "The Illusory Effects of Saving Incentives on Saving," Journal of Economic Perspectives (Fall, 1996) and "IRAs and Household Saving," American Economic Review (December, 1994).
He contributes a regular column called "Tax Break," which appears in Tax Notes magazine, and has published in a wide variety of popular media outlets, including the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.
Gale has received grants from the National Institute on Aging, the National Science Foundation, Smith-Richardson Foundation, the Social Security Administration, the American Council on Life Insurance, the Lumina Foundation, the John M. Olin Foundation, TIAA-CREF Institute, the Department of Labor, the Institute for Research on Poverty, and the Center for American Politics and Public Policy.
Gale received his B.A. in economics from Duke University and his Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. He also studied for a year as an undergraduate at the London School of Economics. He lives in Fairfax, VA, with his wife, two children, and golden retriever.
