Laurence Kotlikoff

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Laurence Kotlikoff
Born	Laurence Jacob Kotlikoff (1951-01-30) January 30, 1951 (age 73)
Education	University of Pennsylvania (BA) Harvard University (MA, PhD)
Academic career
Field	Public finance
Institution	Boston University
Influences	Martin Feldstein
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Laurence Jacob Kotlikoff (born January 30, 1951) is an American economist who has served as a professor of economics at Boston University since 1984.^[1] A specialist in macroeconomics and public finance, he has contributed to a range of fields, including climate change and carbon taxation, the global macroeconomic transition and the future of economic power, inequality, fiscal progressivity, economic guides to personal financial behavior, banking reform, marginal taxation and labor supply, healthcare reform, and social security.^[2] He is the author of over 20 books, and his scholarly articles have been published in a range of journals, including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Political Economy.^[3][4]

Born in 1951, Kotlikoff received a BA in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1973, and a PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1977.^[1] After three years as a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA, he taught as an assistant professor at Yale University from 1980 to 1981, and then as an associate professor at Yale till 1984, during which time he was a research associate at the Cowles Foundation (1980-1984), and served on the Council of Economic Advisers as a senior economist (1981-1982).^[1] He became a professor of economics at Boston University in 1984, where he twice chaired its Department of Economics, and was named a William Warren Fairfield Professor in 2009.^[1]

Kotlikoff has been a research associate at the NBER since 1980, and a research fellow at CESifo since 1999.^[1] He was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1992, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.^[1][5][6]

Kotlikoff has commented regularly on contemporary issues and public affairs. His columns have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes, the PBS NewsHour, the Financial Times, the Boston Globe, Yahoo, CNBC, and other major outlets. Kotlikoff is a frequent guest on numerous podcasts and radio shows, and is routinely quoted by the media on a wide range of economic issues. Over the years, Kotlikoff has testified to Congress on tax reform, generational policy, and other economic issues on 19 occasions.^[1]

Kotlikoff attempted to run for President of the United States in 2012, and sought the nominations of the advocacy group Americans Elect^[7] and the Reform Party of the United States, before ending his campaign in May 2012, when Americans Elect ceased operations. Kotlikoff ran for president in 2016 as an independent alongside his vice president, Dr. Edward Leamer, a renowned economist at UCLA. He achieved ballot-access in 38 states, making him one of only six people in the country that could be legally elected president. His campaign garnered major press from Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, and other major outlets. Kotlikoff's stated goal in running for president was to provide an economics-based policy-reform platform. After the 2016 election, Kotlikoff released his platform on his website in the form of a monograph entitled You're Hired!^[8]