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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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- 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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Tag Archives: Republicans
Shrinking Revenue Offers
Jared Bernstein has a nice, but depressing chart on various revenue offers between Obama and Boehner.
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Tagged Budget, Fiscal Cliff, Government Spending, Obama, Republicans, Revenues, Sequester, Taxes
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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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Are House Republicans Actually Behaving Rationally?
Nate Silver has a fascinating post on this question. Here’s his answer: Individual members of Congress are responding fairly rationally to their incentives. Most members of the House now come from hyperpartisan districts where they face essentially no threat of losing their … Continue reading
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Tagged Fiscal Cliff, Nate Silver, Polarization, Redistricting, Republicans
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3 Articles from the Sunday NYTimes
1. God Save the British Economy Each month, the committee heard Posen’s advice. Each month, it voted 8 to 1 against him. The bank eschewed his more expansionary suggestions and stuck to a more conservative approach of keeping interest rates low … Continue reading
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Tagged austerity, College, Education, income mobility, inequality, links, Middle Class, Republicans, Spending, Tax Reform, Taxes, UK
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Facts are Stubborn Things: High Income Tax Rates and Job Creation
Throughout the campaign and through the fiscal cliff discussions, Republicans have consistently espoused the idea that modestly raising top marginal rates will destroy job creation. For instance, here is Sen Lindsey Gram from ABC’s “This Week”, “[T]o avoid becoming Greece, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, Economic Growth, Fiscal Cliff, inequality, Jobs, Laura Tyson, Lindsey Graham, Republicans, Tax Cuts, Tax Cuts for Whom, Tax Reform, top 1 percent
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