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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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- Great Questions from Paul Krugman wp.me/p2otxR-m4 22 hours ago
- 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… 22 hours 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: social insurance
On Disability Insurance and Labor Force Participation
There’s some disagreement in the literature on the effects of disability insurance on labor force participation that I thought I’d post about given this recent NPR Unfit for Work feature. Till von Wachter, Jae Song, and Joyce Manchester have a nice paper that uses … Continue reading
The Growing Burden of Payroll Taxes
Here’s a column on reforming the payroll tax that I wrote in NYTimes Economix today: Payroll taxes and corporate income taxes accounted for an equal share of federal tax revenue in 1969. By 2009, payroll taxes generated more than six times as much … Continue reading
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