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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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Tag Archives: Jeffrey Clemens
Do Physicians’ Financial Incentives Affect Medical Treatment and Patient Health?
Here’s an interesting paper from Jeffrey Clemens and Joshua Gottlieb. We investigate whether physicians’ financial incentives influence health care supply, technology diffusion, and resulting patient outcomes. In 1997, Medicare consolidated the geographic regions across which it adjusts physician payments, generating … Continue reading
The Rise of the States: U.S. Fiscal Decentralization in the Postwar Period
Katherine Baicker, Jeffrey Clemens, and Monica Singhal have an informative paper on the rising importance of states & fiscal decentralization since the 1950s. ABSTRACT: One of the most dramatic changes in the fiscal federalism landscape during the postwar period has been the … Continue reading
