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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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- RT @ezraklein: Have U.S. states figured out a way to avoid a global race to the bottom on taxes? wapo.st/13NOeLr 1 day ago
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Tag Archives: Healthcare Costs
Links I liked: Health Premium Increases, Immigration, and Closemindedness
1. With health law looming, one large insurer wants a 25 percent premium hike by Sarah Kliff 2. 5 ways immigration reform will help low wage workers by Ezra Klein 3. Why well informed people are also close minded by … Continue reading
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Tagged Cass Sunstein, Ezra Klein, Healthcare Costs, Immigration, Sarah Kliff
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Short post: Good News, Bad News
Good News: Obama taps Brian Deese for Deputy Budget Director Bad News: HHS scraps proposed cuts to private Medicare plans
Regional Variation in Health Insurance Premia, Wages, & Health Costs
While I’m certainly not the first to point these features out, it is astounding to look at how quickly health insurance premia have grown overtime, especially when you compare this growth to that of average wages, total Medicare spending per … Continue reading
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Tagged Healthcare, Healthcare Costs, Medicaid, Medicare, Regional Variation in Health Costs, Wages
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The Effect of U.S. Health Insurance Expansions on Medical Innovation
Here’s an interesting recent paper by Jeff Clemens on the effect of health insurance expansions on medical innovation. Abstract: I study the effect of health insurance expansions on medical innovation. Innovation by practitioners creates important roles for local patient flows and payment … Continue reading
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Tagged Health Costs, Health Insurance, Healthcare Costs, Jeff Clemens, Medicaid, Medicare, patents
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Accounting for the Cost of US Healthcare
I read Steven Brill’s healthcare piece recently and wanted to get a better high-level view of where dollars in the healthcare system are spent. I find aggregate data more informative than anecdotes about hospital bill line items (not that I … Continue reading
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Tagged Baumol's cost, Baumol's Cost Disease, Healthcare, Healthcare Costs, MGI, Steven Brill
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The Impact of Managed Care Backlash on Health Care Costs
Marginal Revolution sends us to Maxim Pinkovskiy’s JMP: ABSTRACT: During the late 1990s, there was a substantial cultural, media and legal backlash against the cost-containment practices of managed care organizations (particularly, HMOs). Most states passed a variety of laws in … Continue reading
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Tagged Costs, Healthcare, Healthcare Costs, HMO, Marginal Revolution, Maxim Pinkovskiy
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