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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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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
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- 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
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Monthly Archives: September 2013
Where the Good Jobs Are—and Why
From Enrico Moretti: The American labor market is recovering from a painful recession. But the recovery is geographically uneven. While some parts of the country are booming, others are still stuck in a deep recession. Two groups of localities have … Continue reading
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Tagged Enrico Moretti, Local Labor Markets, Local Multiplier
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Monetary Policy and Long-Term Real Rates
From Sam Hanson and Jeremy Stein: Changes in monetary policy have surprisingly strong effects on forward real rates in the distant future. A 100 basis-point increase in the 2-year nominal yield on an FOMC announcement day is associated with a 42 … Continue reading
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Tagged Jeremy Stein, Long-Term Real Rates, Monetary Policy, Sam Hanson
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Do Political Protests Matter? Evidence from the Tea Part Movement
From Andreas Madestam, Daniel Shoag, Stan Veuger, and David Yanagizawa-Drott: Can protests cause political change, or are they merely symptoms of underlying shifts in policy preferences? This paper studies the effect of the Tea Party movement in the United States, which rose … Continue reading
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Tagged Andreas Madestam, Daniel Shoag, David Yanagizawa-Drott, Politics, Protests, Stan Veuger, Tea Party
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The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: The Safety Net, Living Arrangements, and Poverty in the Great Recession
From Marianne Bitler and Hilary Hoynes: Much attention has been given to the large increase in safety net spending, particularly in Unemployment Insurance and Food Stamps, during the Great Recession. In this paper we examine the relationship between poverty, the social and … Continue reading
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Tagged Great Recession, Hilary Hoynes, Inqequality, Marianne Bitler, Middle Class, Poverty, Safety Net, SNAP, UI
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Do Tax Credits Stimulate R&D Spending? The Effect of the R&D Tax Credit in its First Decade
From Nirupama Rao: This paper examines the impact of the R&D tax credit between 1981-1991 using confidential IRS data from corporate tax returns. The key advances on previous work are an instrumental variables strategy based on tax law changes that addresses … Continue reading
Long-Term Unemployment and the Great Recession: The Role of Composition, Duration Dependence, and Non-Participation
From Kory Kroft, Fabian Lange, Larry Katz, and Matt Notowidigdo: We explore the extent to which composition, duration dependence, and non-participation can account for the sharp increase in long-term unemployment (LTU) during the Great Recession. We first show that compositional shifts in … Continue reading
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Tagged Aggregate Demand, Beveridge curve, Demand, Duration Dependence, employment to population ratio, Fabian Lange, Great Recession, inequality, Jobs, Kory Kroft, labor force participation, Labor Markets, Larry Katz, long term unemployed, Matching Models, Matt Notowidigdo, Middle Class, Non-Participation, Structural Unemployment, Unemployment
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Universal Pre-School And Social Class: How Exposure to Peers from Poor Families Affects Students
First, I love these BPEA videos. Second, this one by Elizabeth Cascio and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, was quite interesting. Justin Wolfers notes that in two states that introduced universal Pre-K, poor families signed up (so their kids wouldn’t have gone otherwise) … Continue reading
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Tagged Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Elizabeth Cascio, Gautam Rao, Justin Wolfers
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Amerisclerosis? The Puzzle of Rising U.S. Unemployment Persistence
From Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Dmitri Koustas: The persistence of U.S. unemployment has risen with each of the last three recessions, raising the specter that future U.S. recessions might look more like the Eurosclerosis experience of the 1980s than traditional V-shaped … Continue reading
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Tagged Coibion, Dmitri Koustas, Jobs, Labor Markets, Middle Class, Unemployment, Yuriy Gorodnichenko
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Migration and wage effects of taxing top earners: Evidence from the foreigners’ tax scheme in Denmark
from Henrik Kleven, Camille Landais, Emmanuel Saez, Esben Schultz: Tax-induced international mobility of talent is a controversial public-policy issue, especially when tax rates differ substantially across countries and migration barriers are low as in the case of the EU. High top-tax … Continue reading
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Tagged Camille Landais, Emmanuel Saez, Esben Schultz, Henrik Kleven, high income earners, mobility
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