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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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- 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
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- Financial firms make large share of pass-through income
- Pass-through income and the top 1%
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Monthly Archives: October 2013
Sorry for the light posting
I’ve been focusing on finishing my job market paper, which reassesses the equity and efficiency consequences of corporate taxation. I’ll occasionally post things over the next two weeks but it will be light until mid-November.
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Who Pays for Public Employee Health Costs?
From Jeff Clemens and David Cutler: We analyze the incidence of public-employee health benefits. Because these benefits are negotiated through the political process, relevant labor market institutions deviate significantly from the competitive, private-sector benchmark. Empirically, we find that roughly 15 percent … Continue reading
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Tagged Budgets, David Cutler, Government Spending, Health Costs, Incidence, Jeff Clemens, State and Local, Unions
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On Property Taxes in New York
From an interesting NYTimes article on different plans to tax those with high incomes in New York: The idea that nonresidents should pay little or no tax has long rested both on notions of fairness, since they’re not around much … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Shaviro, inequality, mobility, Property Taxes, Tale of Two Cities
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Consumption and Cash-Flow Taxes in an International Setting
From Alan Auerbach and Michael Devereux: We model the effects of consumption-type taxes which differ according to the base and location of the tax. Our model incorporates a multinational producing and selling in two countries with three sources of rent, each … Continue reading
CEA’s New Weekly Economic Index
Donald Marron The Council of Economic Advisers just released an interesting paper examining the macroeconomic harm from the government shutdown and debt limit brinksmanship. To do so, they created a Weekly Economic Index from data that are released either daily … Continue reading
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Technological Change through History: the View from 30,000 feet
Brad Delong has a an outstanding post on technological change. He categorizes how people add value and shows how technological change alters these categories. It’s interesting to think about his post and these issues in terms of a simple (classical) model and … Continue reading
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Tagged Brad Delong, Incidence, inequality, larry summers, Productivity, Robots, Technological Change
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Yes, Economics Is a Science
From Raj Chetty: THERE’S an old lament about my profession: if you ask three economists a question, you’ll get three different answers. This saying came to mind last week, when the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science was awarded to … Continue reading
The World Through Institutional Lenses: Daron Acemoglu
An interview of Daron Acemoglu.
The Policy Elasticity
From Nathaniel Hendren: This paper applies basic price theory to study the marginal welfare impact of government policy changes. In contrast to the canonical marginal excess burden framework, the framework does not require a decomposition of behavioral responses to the policy … Continue reading
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Policy Uncertainty
From Menzie Chinn:
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