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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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- Great Questions from Paul Krugman
- Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany
- Local Economic Development, Agglomeration Economies and the Big Push: 100 Years of Evidence from the Tennessee Valley Authority
- It Takes a Regime Shift: Recent Developments in Japan through the Lens of the Great Depression
- The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation
- Worker Flows Over the Business Cycle: the Role of Firm Quality
- Does Entrepreneurship Pay? The Michael Bloombergs, the Hot Dog Vendors, and the Returns to Self-Employment
- Large Variation in Hospital Billing: Three Preliminary Takeaways from New U.S. Data
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- RT @bobkocher: The highest price hospital in the US is in…NJ and run by ex-Blackstone guys. Not exactly Hopkins! nytimes.com/2013/05/17/bus… 1 day ago
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- 2. that fact is from Moretti (2011) and the sentence is from a recent paper. See the paper here: owenzidar.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/loc… 1 day ago
- 1.After adjusting for differences in skill composition, avg wages in the highest & lowest paying U.S. metros differ by nearly a factor of 3 1 day ago
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- Economist – Democracy in America
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Tag Archives: Politics
Why Keith Hennessey’s Debt Ceiling Plan Doesn’t Make Sense
Keith Hennessey proposed a debt ceiling plan for republicans, which wisely begins by saying not increasing the debt ceiling makes little sense. However, he goes on to say the following: Congressional Republicans offer Mr. Obama a choice. He can have … Continue reading
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Tagged debt ceiling, Fiscal Policy, Keith Hennessey, Politics, Republicans
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Delong on the Lack of a Political Reaction to the Second Gilded Age
Brad Delong: Ray Ginger put it in two absolutely brilliant books–Altgeld’s America and The Age of Excess–even the Republicans thought that they wanted to live in Abe Lincoln’s America, where when you are young you split wood into fence rails and go … Continue reading
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Tagged Brad Delong, History, inequality, Middle Class, Politics
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Lessons from a Half Century of Federal Individual Income Tax Changes
This chart shows how income tax liabilities have changed each year for the five income quintiles over the past half century. Here are a few things to notice: We love cutting income taxes. Almost all of the changes are tax … Continue reading
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Tagged Economic Growth, economy, Fiscal Cliff, Government, Income Growth, Jobs, Middle Class, NBER, payroll taxes, Politics, Tax Cuts for Whom, Tax Reform, Taxes
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Paul Volker on Where American Economic Policy Needs to Go
This piece by Volker is worth reading: Americans have long been eager consumers and home owners. But there is no doubt we collectively overdid it during the years leading up to the financial and economic crisis of 2008. The personal … Continue reading
