Richard Prisinzano

Richard Prisinzano is currently the Director of Policy Analysis at The Budget Lab. Previously, he was the Director of Policy Analysis at the Penn Wharton Budget Model (PWBM). His work at PWBM included evaluating federal fiscal policy. The group’s work was cited regularly by major media outlets (New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, Fox, ABC, CBS, Bloomberg among others). He also served in the Office of Tax Analysis at the U.S. Department of Treasury (OTA). While at OTA, he worked on the taxation of pass-through entities and small businesses and co-authored Treasury Reports on the owners of pass-through businesses and helped develop Treasury’s methodology for identifying small businesses from tax return data.

Dr. Prisinzano has published papers on gasoline taxes, tax migration of millionaires, and major league baseball managers and has also taught econometrics and sports economics at Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University and George Washington University. He holds a B.S. in Economics and Political Science from James Madison University, an M.A. in Economics from Miami University, and a Ph.D. and M.S. in Economics from the University of Texas.