Danny Ferris Yagan is the Robert D. Burch Professor of Economics and Director of the Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance at the University of California, Berkeley.
He researches public sector economics and teaches it to undergraduate and PhD students. His core work uses applied microeconomics to study topics of macroeconomic importance: taxes, inequality, deficits, and recessions.
He is incoming Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Public Economics, the field’s top journal, and member of the Board of Editors of American Economic Review: Insights.
He is a Research Associate of the Public Economics Program and Member of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
He is Co-founder and Chief Economist of the Budget Lab at Yale, a non-partisan policy research center dedicated to providing in-depth analysis of federal policy proposals for the American economy.
He previously served as Chief Economist of the Office of Management and Budget (2021-22). He earned a BA and PhD in economics from Harvard.