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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: April 2013
Inflation & Economic Slack
From Paul Krugman
The Role of Automatic Stabilizers in the U.S. Business Cycle
Alisdair McKay and Ricardo Reis have a new paper on automatic stabilizers with some interesting results on heterogeneous effects for different income groups. ABSTRACT: Most countries have automatic rules in their tax-and-transfer systems that are partly intended to stabilize economic … Continue reading
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Tagged Alisdair McKay, Fiscal Policy, Ricardo Reis, Tax Cuts for Whom, Taxes
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A Century of Progress in Health Technology
From an Ezra Klein healthcare article that you should read.
Ten Economic Facts about Immigration
The Hamilton Project has a report out entitled Ten Economic Facts about Immigration that is worth reading. Given the large, productivity enhancing benefits of high skill immigration, the following figure is troubling and highlights a key area for improvement.
Links I liked: Health Premium Increases, Immigration, and Closemindedness
1. With health law looming, one large insurer wants a 25 percent premium hike by Sarah Kliff 2. 5 ways immigration reform will help low wage workers by Ezra Klein 3. Why well informed people are also close minded by … Continue reading
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Tagged Cass Sunstein, Ezra Klein, Healthcare Costs, Immigration, Sarah Kliff
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Is New York as Expensive as You Think?
Catherine Rampell has an interesting piece on this issue that is worth reading. It highlights research from Jessie Handbury, who makes three points in a recent paper: First, I find that there are large differences in how high- and low-income households … Continue reading
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Tagged Catherine Rampbell, cities, Economic Geography, Jessie Handbury, Local Labor Markets
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Writing Economic Models like Paul Krugman
From the archives: [Krugman] uses theoretical modeling and observation of the real world to discipline and reinforce each other. In the introduction to Currency and Crises [10] , his second collection of articles, he includes a “personal manifesto” of his approach: “[T]he … Continue reading
What do top economists think about Bitcoin?
See here for the latest U Chicago survey.
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The Two Step Inequality Problem
An interesting experiment recently showed that we have a two step inequality problem. First, many underestimate the extent and growth of inequality in the US over the past few decades. Showing them information and charts about these trends and where … Continue reading
Links I Liked
Jérémie Cohen-Setton on Reinhart and Rogoff Zach Goldfarb on Housing Wealth & Consumption Brad Delong on Reinhart and Rogoff
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