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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
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- 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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Tag Archives: Spending
The Congress-Does-Nothing Deficit Reduction Plan
This David Kamin article on future tax revenues and bracket creep is worth reading. Here are a couple highlights: Because of some long-standing elements of our system as well as clever provisions in the Affordable Care Act, taxes will actually … Continue reading
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Tagged David Kamin, Healthcare, Obamacare, Richard Rubin, Spending, Tax Expenditure, Tax Reform, Taxes
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Boosting Growth: The Spending and Debt Responses to Minimum Wage Hikes
Aaronson, Daniel, Sumit Agarwal, and Eric French have a recent AER paper on the consumption patterns of households with minimum wage recipients following minimum wage increases. Immediately following a minimum wage hike, household income rises on average by about $250 per … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Aaronson, Eric French, Government Spending, inequality, Minimum Wage, MPC, Spending, Sumit Agarwal, Tax Cuts for Whom
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Labs of Democracy & Today’s Fiscal Policy Debates
Here’s my latest Economix column on the labs of democracy & today’s fiscal policy debates on uncertainty, spending, and spending vs taxes: Many of the fiercest disagreements about fiscal policy today stem from disagreements about the causes of the slow … Continue reading
Fiscal Policy and MPC Heterogeneity
Tullio Jappelli and Luigi Pistaferri have a recent paper called Fiscal Policy and MPC Heterogeneity. Here’s an interesting figure from it that shows how MPC varies by cash-on-hand: They aren’t the only ones who document MPC heterogeneity. Dynan, Skinner, Zeldes have a … Continue reading
Links for Today: Heckman on Head Start and Mian & Sufi SF Fed paper
1. Heckman on early childhood education 2. Mian and Sufi: Aggregate Demand and State-Level Employment
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Tagged Amir Sufi, Atif Mian, employment, Fiscal Policy, headstart, Jim Heckman, Labor, Spending, Uncertainty, Wages
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A Painfully Slow Recovery for America’s Workers: Causes, Implications, and the Federal Reserve’s Response
A new speech from Janet Yellen is worth reading. Here are some figures from the speech on the slow response relative to other recessions and the contribution of fiscal support (or lack thereof) for this recession. Premature fiscal contraction is … Continue reading
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Tagged Deficit, Fiscal Policy, Great Recession, Janet Yellen, Jobs, Recovery, Spending
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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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The Right Way to Spend on Healthcare
Amitabh Chandra and Jon Skinner have a related paper in JEL: ABSTRACT: In the United States, health care technology has contributed to rising survival rates, yet health care spending relative to GDP has also grown more rapidly than in any … Continue reading
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Tagged Amitabh Chandra, Dartmouth, Healthcare, Jon Skinner, Productivity, Spending
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The Medicare Eligibility Age: Demographics and Medical Care Spending
In contrast to Social Security Reform, we do not find a large effect of potential increases in the age of eligibility on the long-term ability to finance medical spending. This is partly because the oldest old spend much more on … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Auerbach, David Culter, Demographics, Fiscal Cliff, Fiscal Policy, Government, Healthcare, inequality, Louise Sheiner, Medicare, Ronald Lee, Spending
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Fiscal Policy and Economic Recovery: The Case of the 1936 Veterans’ Bonus
Josh Hausman, an economics job market candidate from Berkeley, has a guest post on Miles Kimball’s blog that’s worth checking out: An excellent historical analogy to Miles’s Federal Lines of Credit proposal are the 1931 loans to World War I veterans that I … Continue reading
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Tagged Federal Lines of Credit, Fiscal Policy, Great Depression, Josh Hausman, Miles Kimball, Recession, Recovery, Spending, Stimulus
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