John Iselin

John Iselin is an Associate Director of Economic Analysis at the Budget Lab. He is an applied public and labor economist, whose work focuses on topics of taxation and fiscal policy. He conducted research on topics including state tax credits, the migration responses of older adults to tax changes, high-income tax evasion, and the cyclicality of the social safety net. Prior to starting at the Budget Lab, he worked for the Congressional Budget Office as an associate analyst, as a staff economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, as a research fellow at the California Policy Lab, and as a research assistant at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. He holds a B.A. in economics from Reed College, an MPP from U.C. Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland.