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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: May 2014
More Insurers Lower Premiums: Evidence from Initial Pricing in the Health Insurance Marketplaces
From Leemore Dafny, Jonathan Gruber, and Christopher Ody: First-year insurer participation in the Health Insurance Marketplaces (HIMs) established by the Affordable Care Act is limited in many areas of the country. There are 3.9 participants, on (population-weighted) average, in the 395 … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Ody, Competition, Healthcare Costs, Jonathan Gruber, Leemore Dafny
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Fiscal Risk and the Portfolio of Government Programs
From Sam Hanson, David Scharfstein, and Adi Sunderam: This paper proposes a new approach to social cost-benefit analysis using a model in which a benevolent government chooses risky projects in the presence of market failures and tax distortions. The government internalizes … Continue reading
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Tagged Adi Sunderam, Asset Pricing, David Scharfstein, Fiscal Policy, Government Spending, Sam Hanson
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Technological Innovation, Resource Allocation, and Growth
From Leonid Kogan, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Amit Seru, Noah Stoffman: We explore the role of technological innovation as a source of economic growth by constructing direct measures of innovation at the firm level. We combine patent data for US firms from 1926 … Continue reading
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Tagged Amit Seru, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Economic Growth, Innovation, Leonid Kogan, Noah Stoffman, patents
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Timothy Geithner: The Vox interview – Vox
Timothy Geithner: The Vox interview – Vox.
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The Effect of School Finance Reforms on the Distribution of Spending, Academic Achievement, and Adult Outcomes
From Kirabo Jackson, Rucker Johnson, Claudia Persico: The school finance reforms (SFRs) that began in the early 1970s and accelerated in the 1980s caused some of the most dramatic changes in the structure of K-12 education spending in U.S. history. We analyze the effects … Continue reading
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Tagged Claudia Persico, Education, Kirabo Jackson, Rucker Johnson
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Labor Mobility within Currency Unions
From Ivan Werning and Emmanuel Fahri: We study the effects of labor mobility within a currency union suffering from nominal rigidities. When the demand shortfall in depressed region is mostly internal, migra- tion may not help regional macroeconomic adjustment. When … Continue reading
How The Economic Machine Works
I don’t agree with everything in this video by Ray Dalio, but it is an interesting perspective on the macroeconomy and how important credit is in an endowment economy.
Media Slant: A Question of Cause and Effect – NYTimes.com
Media Slant: A Question of Cause and Effect – NYTimes.com.
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