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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
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- Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany
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Tag Archives: books
Railroaded & The Effectiveness of Historical Government Infrastructure Investments
A historian recently recommended this book to me – it takes a pretty critical view of subsidies for infrastructure historically and sounds like a good book.
What I’m Reading
Michael Lind’s Land of Promise, which David Leonhardt reviewed here.
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Books I’m looking forward to reading: The Cost Disease
As I explained in a previous post, the effects of heterogenous productivity growth across sectors has huge impacts on the economy and on the cost of providing government services. Here’s Larry Summers on this issue: Third, increases in the price … Continue reading
Thomas Jefferson on Promoting High-Skilled Immigration
I’ve been reading Michael Lind‘s book, Land of Promise, and found this Jefferson quote on page 39: Jefferson opposed Hamilton’s policy of promoting skilled immigration, because of his prejudice against urban mechanics and factory workers. He wrote that such ‘ephemeral … Continue reading
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Books that I’m looking forward to reading
Amazon.com: The New Geography of Jobs (9780547750118): Enrico Moretti: Books.
