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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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- Horrible Situation, Interesting Economics Experiment
- A Modern Corporate Tax
- 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
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Tag Archives: Crime
Punishment Severity & Criminal Activity
Here’s an interesting paper by Benjamin Hansen on punishment severity and deterrence. I exploit discrete thresholds that determine both the current as well potential future punishments for first-time and repeat offenders. Specifically, in WA a blood alcohol content (BAC) measured above … Continue reading
Gun Ownership and Gun Homicide Rates
Pascal Noel put together this striking chart on Gun Ownership & Homicide Rates
New research questions Guiliani’s “Broken Windows” approach to crime
Vikram Maheshri and Gregorio Caetano have a new paper that uses great high frequency data and a control function approach to test two central aspects of the Broken Windows theory of crime: Does past light crime (i.e. one broken window) lead to more light … Continue reading
