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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: July 2013
State Incentives for Innovation, Star Scientists and Jobs: Evidence from Biotech
From Enrico Moretti and Dan Wilson: We evaluate the effects of state-provided financial incentives for biotech companies, which are part of a growing trend of placed-based policies designed to spur innovation clusters. We estimate that the adoption of subsidies for biotech … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporate Taxes, Dan Wilson, Enrico Moretti, Innovation, Jobs, Local Labor Markets, RD, Taxes
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A Guide to Survive Math Camp
This is a guest post from Jérémie Cohen-Setton, a friend who is blogging at ECB Watchers and Bruegel. The post gives links to some useful material for Economics Ph.D. program math camps, so that students can understand first year and second … Continue reading
Are State Governments Roadblocks to Federal Stimulus? Evidence from Highway Grants in the 2009 Recovery Act
From Sylvain Leduc and Dan Wilson: We examine how state governments adjusted spending in response to the large temporary increase in federal grants under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). We concentrate our analysis on ARRA highway grants, which … Continue reading
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Tagged ARRA, Dan Wilson, Government Spending, infrastructure, Local Public Finance, Stimulus, Sylvain Leduc
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Are Markups Increasing?
Given the recent discussion about trends in corporate profits and market power [see a great FT article by Robin Harding, this op-ed from Paul Krugman, this post from Tyler Cowen, and these two posts of mine], I thought I’d share this figure from … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Nekarda, Corporate Profits, inequality, Macroeconomics, Markups, Paul Krugman, Profits, rents, Robin Harding, Tyler Cowen, Valerie Ramey
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Peers, Luck & CEO Compensation
From Kelly Shue: I explore how executive social interactions can affect managerial decision making and firm policies using the historical random assignment of MBA students to sections at Harvard Business School. Under the identifying assumption that social bonds are stronger … Continue reading
Equalizing Outcomes and Equalizing Opportunities: Optimal Taxation when Children’s Abilities Depend on Parents’ Resources
From Alex Gelber and Matthew Weinzierl: Empirical research suggests that parents’ economic resources affect their children’s future earnings abilities. Optimal tax policy therefore treats future ability distributions as endogenous to current taxes. We model this endogeneity, calibrate the model to match … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Gelber, Equality of Opportunity, inequality, Matthew Weinzierl, Middle Class, optimal taxation, Taxes
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Agglomeration, Segregation and Social Networks
From Elizabeth Ananat, Shihe Fu, and Stephen Ross: We document that wages of nonwhites, and particularly of blacks, appear to rise less with agglomeration of employment and concentrations of human capital than do white wages. For blacks, this pattern holds even though … Continue reading
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Tagged Agglomeration, Elizabeth Ananat, Segregation, Shihe Fu, Social Networks, Stephen Ross
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Every Breath You Take — Every Dollar You’ll Make: The Long-Term Consequences of the Clean Air Act of 1970
From Adam Isen, Maya Rossin-Slater, and W. Reed Walker: This paper examines the long-term impacts of in-utero and early childhood exposure to ambient air pollution on adult labor market outcomes. We take advantage of a new administrative data set that is uniquely suited … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Isen, Children, Environment, Maya Rossin-Slater, Reed Walker
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NBER Summer Institute Presentation – Tax Cuts for Whom
Here is a link to the presentation that I gave at the Public Finance meetings: Tax Cuts For Whom?Heterogeneous Effects of Income Tax Changes on Growth and Employment
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The Effects of Tax Expenditures on Intergenerational Mobility
An important new project from Chetty, Hendren, Kline, and Saez starts with this paper, which they will be presenting at the NBER today. This paper develops a framework to study the effects of tax expenditures on intergenerational mobility using spatial variation … Continue reading
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