Akcan Balkir
University of California, Berkeley Economics

I am a Ph.D. candiate in the economics department at the University of California, Berkeley. My research focus is in public finance, labor economics, and environmental economics.
Research
"How Much Tax do US Billionaires Pay? Evidence from Administrative Data" with Emmanuel Saez, Danny Yagan, and Gabriel Zucman, NBER Working Paper, 2025.
"Estimating Tax Burdens by Wealth Groups" with Emmanuel Saez, Danny Yagan, and Gabriel Zucman, IRS SOI Working Paper, 2025.