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I'm an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Faculty Research Fellow at National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the Public economics group. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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Monthly Archives: August 2012
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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Corporate Tax Reform: Is broadening the base and lowering the rate always a good idea?
In a Bruegel post today, Jeremie Cohen-Setton and I weigh in on simulations of the Romney tax plan, new thinking on capital income taxation, and corporate tax reform. Base-broadening corporate tax reform Both candidates have roughly similar corporate tax plans … Continue reading
Why are health and education costs exploding? Clues from Long Run Relative Prices
This isn’t the prettiest chart I’ve ever made, but it’s quite important. It shows that health (shades of blue) and education (green) prices have increased nearly 7X more than durable goods prices (reddish colors) since early 1980s. This massive increase … Continue reading
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Tagged Baumol's cost, CPI, Education, Healthcare, inflation, Productivity
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Stunning “Market Share” Growth of US Health Care Spending since 1962
Source: OMB Historical Tables 16.1. HT to David Wessell who shows this graph in Red Ink, which is a nice quick read
Downsizing Government Employment Exacerbates the Downturn: Unemployment rate would be 7.1% without Gov’t Downsizing
The Hamilton project has a put out a nice analysis showing how harmful government layoffs have been on the employment situation. If you extrapolate the government employee to population ratio under President Bush, you’d have 1.7 million more government workers … Continue reading
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Tagged Government Spending, Hamilton Project, Jobs, Labor, Spending
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Romney’s economic plan is “mathematically impossible”
Ezra has a great article on one of the most important and substantive issues of the 2012 campaign
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