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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. My current research focus is on the interaction of corporate taxation, firm location decisions, and the location and scale of economic activity. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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- On Keeping Your Powder Dry: Fiscal Foundations of Financial and Price Stability
- Why Politicians Love Getting on TV: Words Rewarded Just as Much as Results
- One thing I learned in Hanover this weekend – UK Housing Subsidies Edition
- Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Great Britain and the United States since 1850
- Burying Supply-Side Once and for All by Neera Tanden
- Will Housing Save the U.S. Economy? by Amir Sufi
- Betsey Stevenson appointed to CEA
- Declining Labor Shares and Rising Corporate Profits
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Why Krugman isn’t quite right on Education & the Rise of Robots
In a recent post on the Rise of Robots, Krugman argues that growing capital-biased technical change undermines the need for better education: If this is the wave of the future, it makes nonsense of just about all the conventional wisdom … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, inequality, Jobs, Labor, larry summers, Middle Class, Paul Krugman, Productivity, Robots, statistics, technical change, Wages
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