David Joulfaian

David Joulfaian is an Adjunct Professor of Economics at Georgetown University and an economist at the Office of Tax Analysis at the US Department of the Treasury. Previously, he taught at George Washington University, Middlebury College, and Yerevan State University (as a Fulbright Senior Specialist). He has also served as a Treasury technical advisor to the Slovak and Armenian ministries of finance.

His research focuses on behavioral responses to taxes, including topics like charitable giving, labor supply, entrepreneurship, retirement saving, and tax evasion. He authored the book The Federal Estate Tax (MIT Press) and has published works such as Sticking it Out: Entrepreneurial Survival and Liquidity Constraints, The Carnegie Conjecture: Some Empirical Evidence, and Choosing between gifts and bequests: How taxes affect the timing of wealth transfers.