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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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- 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
- Great Questions from Paul Krugman
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- What do top economists think about infrastructure? igmchicago.org/igm-economic-e… 19 hours ago
- RT @ezraklein: Have U.S. states figured out a way to avoid a global race to the bottom on taxes? wapo.st/13NOeLr 21 hours ago
- RT @evansoltas: Here it is: The case for abolishing corporate taxation. bloom.bg/10OKXGt @BloombergView 21 hours ago
- The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective HT: @eoinmcguirk wp.me/p2otxR-mm 23 hours ago
- RT @MarkThoma: Equity Extraction and Mortgage Default - FRB Working Papers federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2013… 1 day ago
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- Andrew Samwick
- Austin Goolsbee
- Brad Delong
- Calculated Risk
- Donald Marron
- Economist – Democracy in America
- Economist – Free Exchange
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- Ezra Klein
- Felix Salmon
- FiveThirtyEight
- Greg Mankiw
- Jared Bernstein
- Keith Hennessey
- Marginal Revolution
- Mark Thoma
- Matthew Yglesias
- Miles Kimball
- Noah Smith
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Tag Archives: Google Fiber
Value of Infrastructure: Silicon Prairie Edition
I recently visited the headquarters of Google Fiber, which is a large infrastructure investment google has been rolling out in Kansas City that provides 100x faster internet. The tour guide claimed that home values in the green zone have increased … Continue reading
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Tagged Enrico Moretti, Google Fiber, infrastructure, Michael Greenstone, Richard Hornbeck, spillovers
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