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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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- 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
- Local Economic Development, Agglomeration Economies and the Big Push: 100 Years of Evidence from the Tennessee Valley Authority
- It Takes a Regime Shift: Recent Developments in Japan through the Lens of the Great Depression
- The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation
- Worker Flows Over the Business Cycle: the Role of Firm Quality
- Does Entrepreneurship Pay? The Michael Bloombergs, the Hot Dog Vendors, and the Returns to Self-Employment
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Valuing The Vote: Evidence from the Voting Rights Act of 1965
From Elizabeth Cascio and Ebonya Washington: The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) has been called one of the most effective pieces of civil rights legislation in U.S. history, having generated dramatic increases in black voter registration across the South. We show … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil Rights, Ebonya Washington, Elizabeth Cascio, Political Economy, Politics, US History
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Great Questions from Paul Krugman
Why have profits been so strong in a weak economy? Why, with profits so high, don’t businesses find reason to invest more (equipment investment is actually fairly strong, but construction remains weak). (For the seriously wonkish, why do average and marginal … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporations, Equity Markets, Investment, Paul Krugman, Profits
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Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany
From Clemens Fuest, Andreas Peichl, and Sebastian Siegloch: Because of endogeneity problems very few studies have been able to identify the incidence of corporate taxes on wages. We circumvent these problems by using an 11-year panel of data on 11,441 German … Continue reading
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Tagged Andreas Peichl, Clemens Fuest, Corporate Taxes, Germany, Incidence, Sebastian Siegloch, Tax Incidence, Taxes, Wages
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Local Economic Development, Agglomeration Economies and the Big Push: 100 Years of Evidence from the Tennessee Valley Authority
Here’s an interesting paper from Pat Kline and Enrico Moretti on local economic development, agglomeration, and the Big Push. We study the long run effects of one of the most ambitious place based economic development policies in U.S. history: the … Continue reading
It Takes a Regime Shift: Recent Developments in Japan through the Lens of the Great Depression
A recent paper from Christy Romer (via Greg Mankiw).
The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation
From Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee, Rachel Glennerster, Cynthia G. Kinnan: ABSTRACT: This paper reports on the first randomized evaluation of the impact of introducing the standard microcredit group-based lending product in a new market. In 2005, half of 104 slums in Hyderabad, India were randomly … Continue reading
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Tagged Abhijit Banerjee, Cynthia Kinnan, Development Economics, Esther Duflo, Microfinaince, Rachel Glennerster
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Worker Flows Over the Business Cycle: the Role of Firm Quality
Lisa Kahn and Erika McEntarfer have an interesting paper on worker flows, firm quality, and the business cycle. They define firm quality as average pay (and their findings are robust to using other sensible definitions). Here’s one of their key … Continue reading
Does Entrepreneurship Pay? The Michael Bloombergs, the Hot Dog Vendors, and the Returns to Self-Employment
From an interesting paper by Ross Levine and Yona Rubinstein: We find that the incorporated self-employed earn much more per hour and work many more hours than salaried and unincorporated workers. After conditioning on standard Mincerian characteristics, the incorporated self-employed have … Continue reading
Large Variation in Hospital Billing: Three Preliminary Takeaways from New U.S. Data
The NYTimes has an interesting article on variation in hospital billing. In addition to highlighting substantial dispersion for the same procedure even within local areas (e.g. “a hospital in Livingston, N.J., charged $70,712 on average to implant a pacemaker, while … Continue reading
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Tagged Baumol's Cost Disease, CMS, Health Expenditures, Healthcare, Regional Variation
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Where the Jobs for the Young Are and Aren’t
David Leonhardt has a nice post with this graphic on regional variation epop among young adults aged 25-34.
