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George Zodrow

George  Zodrow

Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline Chair of Economics, Rice University; International Research Fellow, Centre for Business Taxation, Oxford University; Rice Scholar, Tax and Expenditure Policy Program

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Email: zodrow@rice.edu
Office Phone: 713.348.4891
Office Fax: 713.348.3141
Research URL: http://economics.rice.edu/~zodrow/
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Biography:

George R. Zodrow, Ph.D., is the Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline Professor of Economics at Rice University and a Rice scholar in the Tax and Expenditure Policy Program at the Baker Institute. He also holds an appointment as an international research fellow at the Centre for Business Taxation at Oxford University.

Zodrow’s primary research areas are tax reform in the United States, including the use of computational models to examine the effects of tax changes; and state and local public finance, including the effects of the property tax and interjurisdictional tax competition. He has published more than 100 articles on taxation, authored or edited several books, and is currently editor of the National Tax Journal. He was a visiting economist at the U.S. Treasury Office of Tax Analysis during the preparation of the reports that led to the Tax Reform Act of 1986, has served as a consultant in both the public and private sectors, and has been involved in tax reform projects in a wide range of countries.

In 2009, Zodrow received the Steven D. Gold Award, presented by the National Tax Association, the National Conference of State Legislatures and the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. The award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to state and local fiscal policy, and who have demonstrated a capacity to cross the boundaries between academic research and public policymaking.

Courses

  • ECON 483 — Public Finance: Tax Policy
  • ECON 522 — Public Economics: Tax Policy
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