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I'm an Economics Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley focusing on public finance topics at the intersection of labor economics and macroeconomics. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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- The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective
- The Transitional Costs of Sectoral Reallocation: Evidence From the Clean Air Act and the Workforce
- Top economists on whether we should tax capital income less than labor income
- Corporate Tax Reform: Is broadening the base and lowering the rate always a good idea?
- Apple, Avoidance, and Corporate Tax Incidence
- Valuing The Vote: Evidence from the Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Great Questions from Paul Krugman
- Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany
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- Andrew Samwick
- Austin Goolsbee
- Brad Delong
- Calculated Risk
- Donald Marron
- Economist – Democracy in America
- Economist – Free Exchange
- Economix
- Ezra Klein
- Felix Salmon
- FiveThirtyEight
- Greg Mankiw
- Jared Bernstein
- Keith Hennessey
- Marginal Revolution
- Mark Thoma
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Monthly Archives: August 2012
Is Romney’s plan mathematically possible? Feldstein vs Tax Policy Center
Marty Feldstein has a 8/28 WSJ oped on the Romney tax plan in which he argues the Tax Policy Center‘s numbers are off and that Romney’s plan is mathematically possible. From a quick look, here are 3 reasons why they come to different conclusions: … Continue reading
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Tagged Deductions, Emmanuel Saez, Jonathan Grueber, Marty Feldstein, Math, Romney, Tax Expenditures, Tax Policy Center, Tax Reform, Taxes
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Corporate Tax Reform: Is broadening the base and lowering the rate always a good idea?
In a Bruegel post today, Jeremie Cohen-Setton and I weigh in on simulations of the Romney tax plan, new thinking on capital income taxation, and corporate tax reform. Base-broadening corporate tax reform Both candidates have roughly similar corporate tax plans … Continue reading
Why are health and education costs exploding? Clues from Long Run Relative Prices
This isn’t the prettiest chart I’ve ever made, but it’s quite important. It shows that health (shades of blue) and education (green) prices have increased nearly 7X more than durable goods prices (reddish colors) since early 1980s. This massive increase … Continue reading
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Tagged Baumol's cost, CPI, Education, Healthcare, inflation, Productivity
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Stunning “Market Share” Growth of US Health Care Spending since 1962
Source: OMB Historical Tables 16.1. HT to David Wessell who shows this graph in Red Ink, which is a nice quick read
Downsizing Government Employment Exacerbates the Downturn: Unemployment rate would be 7.1% without Gov’t Downsizing
The Hamilton project has a put out a nice analysis showing how harmful government layoffs have been on the employment situation. If you extrapolate the government employee to population ratio under President Bush, you’d have 1.7 million more government workers … Continue reading
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Tagged Government Spending, Hamilton Project, Jobs, Labor, Spending
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Romney’s economic plan is “mathematically impossible”
Ezra has a great article on one of the most important and substantive issues of the 2012 campaign
