Jeffrey Rohaly is an economist with a background in tax policy, macroeconomics, and econometrics. He is currently the Director of Tax Modeling for the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center (TPC) and a senior research methodologist at the Urban Institute. His work in tax policy has focused on the alternative minimum tax, the estate tax, the distributional effects of the 2001-06 tax cuts, and the analysis of fundamental tax reform. His other research interests include the macroeconomic and long-run growth effects of tax policy. At the TPC, he is in charge of developing and enhancing the Center's large-scale microsimulation model of the U.S. federal tax system.

Prior to joining the Urban Institute, Rohaly worked as an economist in the personal income tax policy unit of the Ontario government's Ministry of Finance. He has also served as a lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley where he taught undergraduate econometrics and was the recipient of a distinguished teaching award.