NBER profile: Wojciech Kopczuk.

Wojciech Kopczuk is a Faculty Research Fellow in the NBER's Public Economics Program. He is also an Associate Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

Kopczuk received his M.Sc. in Computer Science from Warsaw University (Poland) in 1996 and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan in 2001. Before moving to Columbia University in 2003, he was an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia.

Kopczuk was the recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2005) and--somewhat less proudly, but jointly with Joel Slemrod--of the 2001 IgNobel Prize in Economics. His research interests include behavioral...