William G. Gale is the Arjay and Frances Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy and the former vice president and director of the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution

Brookings Institution

The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, D.C., in the United States. One of Washington's oldest think tanks, Brookings conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, and...

. He conducts research on a variety of economic issues, focusing particularly on tax policy, fiscal policy, pensions and saving behavior. He is also co-director of the Tax Policy Center

Tax Policy Center

The Tax Policy Center is a non-partisan joint venture of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution. Based in Washington D.C., it aims to provide independent analyses of current and longer-term tax issues and to communicate its analyses to the public and to policymakers in a timely and...

, a joint venture of the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute

Urban Institute

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. Gale attended Duke University

Duke University

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 and the London School of Economics

London School of Economics

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 and received his Ph.D. from Stanford University

Stanford University

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 in 1987.

Prior to joining Brookings in 1992, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California

University of California

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, Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

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, and a senior staff economist for the Council of Economic Advisers

Council of Economic Advisers

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 under President George H.W. Bush.

Publications

Gale co-authored or co-editored several books, including Taxing the Future: Fiscal Policy in the Bush Administration (Brookings, 2006); Aging Gracefully: Ideas to Improve Retirement Security in America (Century Foundation, 2006); The Evolving PensionTax Policy Center System: Trends, Effects, and Proposals for Reform (Brookings, 2005); Private Pensions and Public Policy (Brookings, Los Angeles, California 2004); Rethinking Estate and Gift Taxation (Brookings, 2001), and Economic Effects of Fundamental Tax Reform (Brookings, 1996).

He has also written numerous scholarly research articles, including publications in the American Economic Review

American Economic Review

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, Journal of Political Economy

Journal of Political Economy

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, and Quarterly Journal of Economics

Quarterly Journal of Economics

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, and has served as editor and editorial board member of several academic journals. He has also written extensively in policy-related publications and newspapers. Gale has served on advisory boards for the Government Accountability Office

Government Accountability Office

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, the Internal Revenue Service

Internal Revenue Service

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, the Joint Committee on Taxation and the Board of the Center on Federal Financial Institutions.

External links

• Gale's homepage at the Brookings Institution