About
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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Recent Posts
- 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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- RT @SethHanlon: There's another new IG report on the sad state of tax enforcement. IRS resources are so limited that it's failing to follo… 2 weeks ago
- Eric Zwick is presenting new work on "America's Missing Entrepreneurs," which is joint with me, @johnvanreenen, and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 weeks ago
- RT @ECzibor: 6) Entrepreneurship, Job Creation and Gender aeaweb.org/conference/202… https://t.co/uIPBRdD4zS 2 weeks ago
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Monthly Archives: April 2013
Are Behavioral Responses to Welfare Programs Bigger than We Think?
Pat Kline and Melissa Tartari have an innovative working paper that is a bit technical, but quite interesting. They formally identify the magnitude of intensive and extensive margin adjustments to the a welfare program called Jobs First. Here’s the Abstract: We study the … Continue reading
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Tagged Distortions, Government Spending, Labor Markets, Melissa Tartari, Pat Kline, Welfare Reform
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Jeremy Stein on Regulating Large Financial Institutions
Here‘s Jeremy Stein on regulating large financial institutions. Some have argued that the current policy path is not working, and that we need to take a fundamentally different approach.4 Such an alternative approach might include, for example, outright caps on the … Continue reading
Debt to GDP & Future Economic Growth
There has been a lot of discussion today on Reinhart and Rogoff’s work on Debt to GDP & future economic growth (see Mike Konczal, Krugman, CEPR, Brad Plumer, and the original critique from Herden, Ash, Pollin), so I wanted to highlight some … Continue reading
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Tagged Brad Delong, Brad Plumer, CEPR, debt, Government Spending, Laura Tyson, Mike Konczol, Paul Krugman, Reinhart and Rogoff
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Fiscal Policy as Stabilization Policy: What do we think now that we did not think in 2007?
Here’s a presentation that Brad Delong and Laura Tyson are giving at the IMF’s Fiscal Forum today. I helped put them put it together and make some of these graphs. Well worth checking out.
Unemployment benefits should encourage geographic mobility
An op-ed from Enrico Moretti: Americans have always been willing to move to look for better economic opportunities, and this willingness to relocate is a big factor in U.S. prosperity. Yet while everyone is free to move to look for … Continue reading
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Tagged Enrico Moretti, Local Labor Markets, mobility, Unemployment Benefits
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Legislative Gridlock isn’t the Problem
An interesting take from Larry Summers: The great mistake of the gridlock theorists is to suppose that progress comes from legislation, and that more legislation consistently represents more progress. While people think the nation is gripped by gridlock, consider what … Continue reading
Larry Summers Reviews the History of Austerity
Summers reviews Austerity: the History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Blyth here. Photo from Financial Times
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Tagged austerity, Government Spending, larry summers, Mark Blyth
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Raj Chetty Wins Clark Medal
Congratulations to Raj Chetty for winning the Bates Clark medal for being the top economist under 40. Here are some links if you’d like to learn more about him. AEA’s award announcement on why they awarded him the medal. What Chetty … Continue reading
A Nation Of Gamblers: Real Estate Speculation And American History
Here’s Ed Glaser on real estate speculation in American History: The great housing convulsion that buffeted America between 2000 and 2010 has historical precedents, from the frontier land boom of the 1790s to the skyscraper craze of the 1920s. But this … Continue reading
Headed to the Kauffman Economics Bloggers Forum
Here’s the agenda and here is the live feed. Looking forward to meeting folks there.
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