Slemrod has served on the faculty of the
University of Michigan since 1987, and does research on taxation, with a focus on taxation of personal income. He is co-author of ''Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen's Guide to the Great Debate over Tax Reform'' and the editor of Does Atlas Shrug? The Economic Consequences of Taxing the Rich. Slemrod also serves as Director of the Office of Tax Policy Research, which is a research center at the University of Michigan on matters of tax policy. In 2001, Slemrod shared an
Ig Nobel Prize with
Wojciech Kopczuk, of
Columbia University, for a paper concluding that people find a way to postpone their deaths if that would qualify them for a lower rate on the
inheritance tax. In 2012, Slemrod was awarded the
Daniel M. Holland Medal by the
National Tax Association. ==See also==