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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. My current research focus is on the interaction of corporate taxation, firm location decisions, and the location and scale of economic activity. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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- Taxation and the Allocation of Talent
- On Keeping Your Powder Dry: Fiscal Foundations of Financial and Price Stability
- Why Politicians Love Getting on TV: Words Rewarded Just as Much as Results
- One thing I learned in Hanover this weekend – UK Housing Subsidies Edition
- Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Great Britain and the United States since 1850
- Burying Supply-Side Once and for All by Neera Tanden
- Will Housing Save the U.S. Economy? by Amir Sufi
- Betsey Stevenson appointed to CEA
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- RT @ryanavent: Important to remember that fiscal effects of immigration are basically meaningless next to massive welfare gain to migrants … 14 hours ago
- On Keeping Your Powder Dry: Fiscal Foundations of Financial and Price Stability wp.me/p2otxR-nZ 15 hours ago
- RT @qz: A startup’s plan to make US health care cheaper: Tell people what it costs qz.com/95516 1 day ago
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Tag Archives: Emmanuel Saez
The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective
From Facundo Alvaredo, Anthony B. Atkinson, Thomas Piketty, and Emmanuel Saez: The top 1 percent income share has more than doubled in the United States over the last thirty years, drawing much public attention in recent years. While other English speaking … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Atkinson, Emmanuel Saez, Facundo Alvaredo, inequality, Middle Class, Tax Reform, Thomas Piketty, top 1 percent
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Taxation and International Mobility of Superstars
I posted yesterday and Neil Irwin posted today about tax evasion and incentives for millionaires, so I thought I’d highlight an interesting paper that will be coming out in AER by Kleven, Landais and Saez that uses tax incentives among soccer … Continue reading
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Tagged Camille Landais, Emmanuel Saez, Henrik Jacobsen Kleven, Neil Irwin, Tax Evasion
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How Elastic Are Preferences for Redistribution?
Ilyana Kuziemko, Michael Norton, Emmanuel Saez, & Stefanie Stantcheva have a new NBER paper on inequality and preferences for redistribution: “This paper analyzes the effects of information about inequality and taxes on preferences for redistribution using randomized online surveys on … Continue reading
My Teaching Philosophy
As a first time Graduate Student Instructor this fall, we had to write a teaching philosophy. As I’m getting ready to put materials together for my class this spring, Econ 131: Public Economics by Emmanuel Saez, I took a look … Continue reading
Washington’s Definition of Middle Class
I saw this proposal in Lori Montgomery’s article on fiscal cliff talks yesterday: Fresh tax revenue, generated in part by raising rates on the wealthy, as Obama wants, and in part by limiting their deductions, as Republicans prefer. The top … Continue reading
Should We Increase Dividend Taxation? 3 Views
In the NYTimes this morning, Steven Rattner joined a number of others (e.g. Laura Tyson) in calling for higher dividend tax rates. There are three main views on the efficiency costs of dividend taxation: Old View: The old view (Poterba … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Auerbach, Dividend Taxation, Emmanuel Saez, Jim Poterba, Kevin Hassett, larry summers, Laura Tyson, Raj Chetty, Steve Rattner, Tax Reform, Taxes
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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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