Mark Huggett

Mark Huggett is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Georgetown University and a member of the Markets Network at the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO).

His educational background:

• Ph.D. in Economics, University of Minnesota, 1991

Professor Huggett specializes in macroeconomics with research focused on idiosyncratic risk implications for aggregate wealth accumulation, wealth inequality, lifetime inequality, and asset pricing. His recent work develops a human capital interpretation of lifetime inequality. Primary research domains include Macroeconomics, Inequality, and Taxation, with specific investigations into optimal income taxation frameworks and cross-country analyses of top earners.

Through the Markets Network, he contributes to studies on human capital financing constraints, credit extension mechanisms, and policy interventions for underserved populations across the lifecycle.