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Biography
Jacob Goldin is the Richard M. Lipton professor of tax law at the University of Chicago Law School and a research professor at the American Bar Foundation. Trained as a lawyer and economist, Goldin focuses on US tax administration and how tax policy affects low-income households. Goldin previously worked in the Office of Tax Policy at the US Treasury Department and was a professor of law at Stanford Law School. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. He holds a JD from Yale Law School and a PhD in economics from Princeton University.