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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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- Who were the top taxpayers in 1923?
- Trump won in counties that lost jobs to China and Mexico
- The Effect of Pension Income on Elderly Earnings: Evidence from Social Security and Full Population Data
- Why Retire When You Can Work? Hours are way up for elderly workers
- Zip-code Economics
- Financial firms make large share of pass-through income
- Pass-through income and the top 1%
- Quantitative Spatial Economics
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Monthly Archives: November 2012
Large-Scale Asset Purchases by Jeremy Stein
Here’s Greg Ip on Jeremy Stein’s recent LSAP speeches (Oct 11, Nov 30): If Mr Stein’s story is right, we should expect to see corporations exploiting the drop in long-term rates to refinance short-term debt and repurchase stock but not boost … Continue reading
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Tagged Cash, Economist, Finance, Growth, Housing, Interest Rates, Jeremy Stein, Large-Scale Asset Purchases, Monetary Policy, Quantitative Easing
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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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What economic problem keeps Larry Summers up at night?
What about the economy now keeps you in cold sweats at night? I worry for the medium and long term about where the jobs are going to come from for those with fewer skills. One in five men between 25 … Continue reading
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Tagged david autor, Globalization, inequality, Jobs, Labor, larry summers, Middle Class, NYTimes, Technological Change
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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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Tagged Baumol's cost, Corporate Income Tax, debt, Disability Insurance, Economic Policy, Fiscal Cliff, Healthcare, income taxes, inequality, Jobs, Medicare, Middle Class, NYTimes, Payroll tax, Progressivity, Revenue, skills, social insurance, social security, Stimulus, Tax Cuts for Whom, Tax Reform, Taxes, technology
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Larry Summers has a new website
Larrysummers.com
Interesting Paragraph from Ed Glaeser
Economist Matthew Kahn of UCLA has studied the death tolls from natural disasters. He found that where governments are more capable, fewer people die. This makes me worry about the fate of cities in the developing world that are just as subject to natural … Continue reading
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Tagged cities, Ed Glaeser, Government, Matthew Kahn, natural disasters, Research
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Links for Today: Fiscal Cliff, Effectiveness of Savings Incentives, & Banking
Absolutely everything you need to know about the fiscal cliff from Wonkblog Study Questions Tax Breaks’ Effect on Retirement Savings by Annie Lowrie Banking Must not be Left in the Shadows by Gary Gorton via Mark Thoma
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Tagged Annie Lowrie, Banking, Brad Plumer, Dylan Matthews, Ezra Klein, Financial Regulation, Fiscal Cliff, Gary Gorton, Mark Thoma, Research, Retirement, Savings, Suzy Khimm, Taxes, wonkblog
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Facts are Stubborn Things: High Income Tax Rates and Job Creation
Throughout the campaign and through the fiscal cliff discussions, Republicans have consistently espoused the idea that modestly raising top marginal rates will destroy job creation. For instance, here is Sen Lindsey Gram from ABC’s “This Week”, “[T]o avoid becoming Greece, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, Economic Growth, Fiscal Cliff, inequality, Jobs, Laura Tyson, Lindsey Graham, Republicans, Tax Cuts, Tax Cuts for Whom, Tax Reform, top 1 percent
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The Middle-Class Tax Cuts’ Impact On Consumer Spending & Retailers
According to today’s NEC and CEA report, Allowing the middle-class tax rates to rise and failing to patch the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) could cut the growth of real consumer spending by 1.7 percentage points in 2013. Faced with these tax … Continue reading
Should We Increase Dividend Taxation? 3 Views
In the NYTimes this morning, Steven Rattner joined a number of others (e.g. Laura Tyson) in calling for higher dividend tax rates. There are three main views on the efficiency costs of dividend taxation: Old View: The old view (Poterba … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Auerbach, Dividend Taxation, Emmanuel Saez, Jim Poterba, Kevin Hassett, larry summers, Laura Tyson, Raj Chetty, Steve Rattner, Tax Reform, Taxes
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