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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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Monthly Archives: October 2013
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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Tagged Nathaniel Hendren, Policy Elasticity, Public Finance, Taxes
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Policy Uncertainty
From Menzie Chinn:
The battle over the US budget is the wrong fight
From Larry Summers: This month Washington is consumed by the impasse over reopening the government and raising the debt limit. It seems likely that this episode, like the 1995-96 government shutdowns and the 2011 debt limit scare, will be remembered mainly … Continue reading
Breaking Down US Debt
From Wonkblog
Brad Delong on Economists Working on Equitable Growth
From Brad Delong: Take a look at: Emmanuel Saez “Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998” with Tomas Piketty, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118(1), 2003, 1-39 (Longer updated version published in A.B. Atkinson and T. Piketty eds., Oxford University Press, 2007) (Tables and … Continue reading
The Impact of Unemployment Insurance on Job Search: Evidence from Google Search Data
From Scott Baker and Andrey Fradkin: We use Google search data to construct the first high-frequency, location-specific index of job search activity (GJSI). We demonstrate the GJSI’s validity and study the effect of increased unemployment insurance (UI) on job search activity. … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrey Fradkin, data, Google, Scott Baker, search, unemployment insurance
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