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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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- Top economists on whether we should tax capital income less than labor income
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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
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Tag Archives: Betsey Stevenson
Debt Ceiling Deja Vu – What Happened Last Time?
This Stevenson & Wolfers op-ed from the last time games were played with not raising the debt ceiling has some informative, unpleasant graphs on consumer confidence and employment growth:
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Tagged Betsey Stevenson, Congress, debt ceiling, Justin Wolfers
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Are We Sending the Best and Brightest to College?
Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers have an interesting column today in Bloomberg View: The real crisis in American higher education is that our best colleges never see a large chunk of our smartest students. In an important recent study, the economists Caroline … Continue reading
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Tagged Betsey Stevenson, Caroline Hoxby, Christopher Avery, College, Education, inequality, Justin Wolfers, Middle Class, NBER, Sarena Goodman
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