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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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- 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
- Great Questions from Paul Krugman
- Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany
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- The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective HT: @eoinmcguirk wp.me/p2otxR-mm 20 hours ago
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Tag Archives: Erik Hurst
Manufacturing Decline, Housing Booms, and Non-Employment
Kerwin Kofi Charles, Erik Hurst, and Matt Notowidigdo argue that the housing boom masked a structural decline in manufacturing employment in a recent paper. They estimate that 40% of the increase in non-employment from 2000-2011 can be attributed to the … Continue reading
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Tagged and Matt Notowidigdo, Erik Hurst, Housing, Kerwin Kofi Charles, Local Labor Markets, Manufacturing
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How Similar are Public and Private Equity Returns?
Tobias Moskowitz and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen have an AER paper that I recently came across that compares public and private equity returns. They find that on average private equity returns are no higher than public equity returns despite liquidity differences. They … Continue reading
Inequality, the Allocation of Opportunity, and U.S. Economic Growth
Chang-Tai Hsieh, Erik Hurst, Peter Klenow, and Chad Jones have a recent paper on the allocation of talent and US economic growth in which they measure the macroeconomic consequences of reduced “occupational frictions” faced by women and blacks in the labor … Continue reading
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Tagged Allocation of Opportunity, Chad Jones, Chang-Tai Hsieh, Education, Erik Hurst, Growth, inequality, Middle Class, Peter J. Klenow
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