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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: March 2014
High Frequency Trading
There has been a lot of buzz about Michael Lewis’s new book and high frequency trading. Eric Budish has a recent paper and proposal that has been getting a lot of attention from policymakers. Here is a Booth debate with Eric … Continue reading
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Tagged Eric Budish, Finance, High-Frequency Trading, Regulation
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The Behavioralist As Tax Collector: Using Natural Field Experiments to Enhance Tax Compliance
From Michael Hallsworth, John List, Robert Metcalfe, Ivo Vlaev: Tax collection problems date back to the earliest recorded history of mankind. This paper begins with a simple theoretical construct of paying (rather than declaring) taxes, which we argue has been an … Continue reading
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Tagged Ivo Vlaev, John List, Michael Hallsworth, Robert Metcalfe, Tax Compliance, Taxes
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Evolution of European Borders: 1000 Years in less than 3.5 Mins
HT: Marginal Revolution
Heterogeneity in MPC out of Housing Wealth
A very interesting chart from Atif Mian and Amir Sufi: Here is the abstract of the paper: We examine the effect of rising U.S. house prices on borrowing and spending from 2002 to 2006. Households in low income zip codes … Continue reading
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Corporate Profits, Proprietors’ Income, and Labor Compensation
From Ed Dolan:
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Tagged Corporate Profits, Ed Dolan, inequality, Labor Compensation, Proprietors’ Income
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The Inequality Deflator: Interpersonal Comparisons without a Social Welfare Function
From Nathan Hendren: This paper develops a method for resolving the equity-efficiency tradeoff that modifies the Kaldor-Hicks compensation principle to account for the distortionary cost of redistribution. The inequality deflator weights surplus by the marginal cost of providing transfers to … Continue reading
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NTA Conference in May on Tax, Health, and Energy Policy
The NTA is hosting a conference May 15-16th in DC with a lot of interesting sessions, including this one on income inequality, social mobility, and policy responses: 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM INCOME INEQUALITY, SOCIAL MOBILITY, AND POLICY RESPONSES Organizer: Nicholas … Continue reading
The Distribution of US Wealth, Capital Income, and Returns since 1913
From Paul Krugman: Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman have been developing an alternative procedure for estimating top wealth shares — preliminary slides here — and it tells a very different story from the common one. According to their estimates, the wealth … Continue reading
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Tagged Capital, Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman, inequality, Paul Krugman, Wealth
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Who Benefits when the Government Pays More? Pass-Through in the Medicare Advantage Program
From Mark Duggan, Amanda Starc, Boris Vabson: Governments contract with private firms to provide a wide range of services. While a large body of previous work has estimated the effects of that contracting, surprisingly little has investigated how those effects vary … Continue reading
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Tagged Affordable Care Act, Amanda Starc, Boris Vabson, Healthcare, Incidence, Mark Duggan, Profits
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