About
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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- RT @CFCamerer: NYC air traffic control hub is only staffed at 54%. No short-run fix “Michael McCormick, a former manager at the facility,… 12 hours ago
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- RT @kearney_melissa: “Not only is the world coming apart, is it is really falling apart for people without a BA” - Angus Deaton @Brooking… 1 day ago
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Monthly Archives: October 2014
Risk and Information in the Municipal Bond Market
NBER Reporter 2014 Number 3: Research Summary.
Declining Savings Among the Bottom 90%
From Saez and Zucman (2014)
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Tagged Capital, Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman, inequality, Savings
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Wealth Inequality in the United States since 1913: Evidence from Capitalized Income Tax Data
From Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman: This paper combines income tax returns with Flow of Funds data to estimate the distribution of household wealth in the United States since 1913. We estimate wealth by capitalizing the incomes reported by individual … Continue reading
Investment Hangover and the Great Recession
From Alp Simsek, Andrei Sheifer, and Matthew Rognile: We present a model of investment hangover motivated by the Great Recession. In our model, overbuilding of residential capital requires a reallocation of productive resources to nonresidential sectors, which is facilitated by … Continue reading
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Tagged Alp Simsek, Andrei Sheifer, Great Recession, Housing, Investment, Matthew Rognile, Recovery
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New Evidence on the Impact of Financial Crises in Advanced Countries
New (preliminary) work from Christy and David Romer: This paper revisits the aftermath of financial crises in advanced countries in the decades before the Great Recession. We construct a new series on financial distress in 24 OECD countries for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Christy Romer, David Romer, Financial Crises, Great Recession, Recession, Recovery
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Why public investment really is a free lunch – FT.com
Why public investment really is a free lunch – FT.com.
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Does Transparency Lead to Pay Compression?
From Alex Mas: This paper asks whether disclosing wages to the public changes wage setting at the top of the public sector income distribution. I evaluate a 2010 California mandate that required cities to submit municipal salaries to the State, … 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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