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 @CFCamerer: NYC air traffic control hub is only staffed at 54%. No short-run fix “Michael McCormick, a former manager at the facility,… 12 hours ago
- An economic slowdown and persistent inflation will hurt Social Security’s finances, draining its reserves one year… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 day ago
- RT @kearney_melissa: “Not only is the world coming apart, is it is really falling apart for people without a BA” - Angus Deaton @Brooking… 1 day ago
- An economic slowdown and persistent inflation will hurt Social Security’s finances, draining its reserves one year… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 day ago
- RT @davidmwessel: A remarkable slide from Yongseok Shin's #BPEA presentation. Shows change in employment by sector from pre-COVID trend.… 1 day ago
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Monthly Archives: May 2013
Tax Earnings Where Products Are Sold
From Alan Auerbach on corporate taxes: More than a century old, our corporate tax is showing its age. To modernize it, the basic challenge is to implement a corporate tax that is fair and provides sufficient revenue while making the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Auerbach, Corporate Taxes, Destination, Tax, Tax Reform
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A Nice Profile of Leemore Dafny & Her Work on Competition in Health Insurance Markets
She […] determine[d] that insurers charge more profitable businesses higher premiums, a relationship strongest in geographic markets with a small number of carriers. Beyond higher costs, scant competition also probably causes “a lack of innovation,” she said. She published her … Continue reading
Kimball & Wang: After crunching Reinhart and Rogoff’s data, we’ve concluded that high debt does not slow growth
From Miles Kimball and Yichuan Wang in Quartz: Leaving aside monetary policy, the textbook Keynesian remedy for recession is to increase government spending or cut taxes. The obvious problem with that is that higher government spending and lower taxes tend to … Continue reading
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Tagged debt, Miles Kimball, Reinhart and Rogoff, Yichuan Wang
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From the Archives: The Promise of Progressive Cost Consciousness in Health-care Reform
From Jason Furman in April 2007: This paper proposes a template for a progressive cost sharing plan that would require typical families to pay half of their health costs until they reached 7.5 percent of their income; low-income families would not … Continue reading
Congrats to Jason Furman
Was very glad to hear the news that Jason is slated to be the next CEA chair. Well deserved. And hats off to Bloomberg for always seeming to break these stories.
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Delong on How to Portray the Relationship between Debt & Future Growth
Here’s a nice post by Brad Delong on how to portray the debt-and-growth association.
Horrible Situation, Interesting Economics Experiment
From a NYTimes article on new Medicaid coverage holes in certain states, i.e. Texas, Florida, Kansas, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Georgia, which are refusing to expand Medicaid: In most cases, she said, adults with incomes from 32 percent to 100 percent of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Future Research, Health Insurance, Healthcare, inequality, Medicaid, Middle Class
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A Modern Corporate Tax
Here’s a proposal for a modern corporate tax from Alan Auerbach: This paper proposes two reforms to the U.S. corporate tax system: first, an immediate deduction for all investments that would replace the current system of depreciation allowances, and second, … Continue reading
The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective
From Facundo Alvaredo, Anthony B. Atkinson, Thomas Piketty, and Emmanuel Saez: The top 1 percent income share has more than doubled in the United States over the last thirty years, drawing much public attention in recent years. While other English speaking … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Atkinson, Emmanuel Saez, Facundo Alvaredo, inequality, Middle Class, Tax Reform, Thomas Piketty, top 1 percent
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The Transitional Costs of Sectoral Reallocation: Evidence From the Clean Air Act and the Workforce
From Reed Walker: New environmental regulations lead to a rearrangement of production away from polluting industries, and workers in those industries are adversely affected. This paper uses linked worker-firm data in the United States to estimate the transitional costs associated … Continue reading
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Tagged Clean Air Act, Local Labor Outcomes, Reed Walker, Regulation
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