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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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- Apple, Avoidance, and Corporate Tax Incidence
- Valuing The Vote: Evidence from the Voting Rights Act of 1965
- 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
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Tag Archives: Tax Expenditures
The White House on “Limiting Deductions: The Reality of the Math”
Here’s Jason Furman and Gene Sperling: In his Budget, the President proposes to raise $1.56 trillion in revenue from high-income households, including $1 trillion from the expiration of the Bush high-income and estate tax cuts and additional revenue from limiting tax … Continue reading
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Tagged Deductions, Economic Policy, Fiscal Cliff, Gene Sperling, inequality, Jason Furman, Math, Tax Expenditures, Tax Reform, Taxes, White House
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Is Romney’s plan mathematically possible? Feldstein vs Tax Policy Center
Marty Feldstein has a 8/28 WSJ oped on the Romney tax plan in which he argues the Tax Policy Center‘s numbers are off and that Romney’s plan is mathematically possible. From a quick look, here are 3 reasons why they come to different conclusions: … Continue reading
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Tagged Deductions, Emmanuel Saez, Jonathan Grueber, Marty Feldstein, Math, Romney, Tax Expenditures, Tax Policy Center, Tax Reform, Taxes
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