Gordon Mermin is a principal research associate in the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center at the Urban Institute, where he focuses on the tax treatment of retirement saving, higher education, and health insurance. Mermin develops and maintains the Tax Policy Center’s microsimulation model of the federal tax system and is part of the effort to extend the model to state-level analysis. He has written extensively on retirement policy and work at older ages.

Mermin earned his BA from Stanford University and his MA in economics from the University of Michigan.