Gutgsell Endowed Professor:
Don Fullerton

Don Fullerton received a BA from Cornell in 1974 and a PhD in Economics from U.C. Berkeley in 1978. He taught at Princeton University (1978-84), the University of Virginia (1984-91), Carnegie Mellon University (1991-94) and the University of Texas (1994-2008), before joining the University of Illinois in 2008. From 1985 to 1987, he served in the U.S. Treasury Department as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis. His early research in public economics focused on computable general equilibrium models of taxation, marginal effective tax rates, the marginal cost of public funds, and distributional effects of taxes on a lifetime basis. Recent research includes the distributional effects of social security. In environmental and energy economics, he works on household disposal of garbage and recycling, policies for green design, vehicle emission control policies, carbon taxes, and other second-best policies in the energy sector where direct environmental taxes are not feasible.

Professor Fullerton holds appointments in the Department of Finance, the Institute for Government and Public Affairs (IGPA), and the Center for Business and Public Policy (CBPP).