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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: June 2014
People and Machines A Look at The Evolving Relationship Between Capital and Skill In Manufacturing 1850-1940 Using Immigration Shocks
From Jeanne Lafortune, José Tessada, Ethan Lewis: This paper empirically tests if the Second Industrial Revolution changed the way inputs were used in the manufacturing sector, as has been argued by historical research. To do this, we estimate the impact of … Continue reading
Credit Supply in the Great Recession
1. Does Greater Inequality Lead to More Household Borrowing? New Evidence from Household Data by Olivier Coibion, Marianna Kudlyak, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, John Mondragon One suggested hypothesis for the dramatic rise in household borrowing that preceded the financial crisis is that low-income households increased their demand … Continue reading
A College Major Matters Even More in a Recession – NYTimes.com
A College Major Matters Even More in a Recession – NYTimes.com.
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Oxford Business Tax Conference
Posting will be light for the next week because I will be in Oxford at the Business Tax Symposium, which has a lot of interesting papers that you can check out here.
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Macro-stabilisation and tax rebates | vox
Macro-stabilisation and tax rebates | vox.
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Liquidity Trap and Excessive Leverage
From Anton Korinek and Alp Simsek: We investigate the role of macroprudential policies in mitigating liquidity traps driven by deleveraging, using a simple Keynesian model. When constrained agents engage in deleveraging, the interest rate needs to fall to induce unconstrained agents to … Continue reading
Taking on Teacher Tenure Backfires – An Interesting Take from Jesse Rothstein
From Jesse Rothstein in the NYTimes: […] decisions about firing teachers are inherently about trade-offs: It is important to dismiss ineffective teachers, but also to attract and retain effective teachers. Judge Treu’s opinion in the case, Vergara v. California (in which … Continue reading
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What are the Welfare Gains of the Individual Mandate: Evidence from MA
From Martin Hackmann, Jonathan Kolstad, and Amanda Kowalski: We develop a model of selection that incorporates a key element of recent health reforms: an individual mandate. Using data from Massachusetts, we estimate the parameters of the model. In the individual market for … Continue reading
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Mandate-Based Health Reform and the Labor Market: Evidence from the Massachusetts Reform
From Jonathan Kolstad and Amanda Kowalski: We model the labor market impact of the three key provisions of the recent Massachusetts and national “mandate-based” health reforms: individual and employer mandates and expansions in publicly-subsidized coverage. Using our model, we characterize the … Continue reading
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