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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
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- Financial firms make large share of pass-through income
- Pass-through income and the top 1%
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Tag Archives: Budget
Use-it-or-Lose-it Budget Rules
From Jeff Liebman and Neale Mahoney, summarized by NBER’s Laurent Belsie: IT projects that were procured in the last week of the fiscal year were between two and six times more likely to have a lower quality rating. Federal agencies spend an … Continue reading
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Tagged Budget, Government Spending, Jeff Liebman, Laurent Belsie, Neale Mahoney
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Is it too late to get an arborist into the budget negotiations?
From Austan Goolsbee: Most of us watching the looming budget showdown do so with a sense of dread. The last one left congressional approval at 9%, the president’s popularity at a new low, and consumer confidence at levels not seen … Continue reading
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Tagged Austan Goolsbee, Budget, Early Education, Education, inequality, Investment, Pre-K
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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
Shrinking Revenue Offers
Jared Bernstein has a nice, but depressing chart on various revenue offers between Obama and Boehner.
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Tagged Budget, Fiscal Cliff, Government Spending, Obama, Republicans, Revenues, Sequester, Taxes
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Top Economists on Ten Year Budget Plans & Long-run Fiscal Sustainability
See here for survey results
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Tagged Budget, Government Spending, Healthcare, top economists
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Thoughts on the California/SF Tax Related Propositions for Tuesday
San Francisco – Proposition E: replaces SF payroll tax, which is based on the number of employees, to a gross receipts tax Favor: the payroll tax makes hiring people more expensive (since employers have to pay more taxes for every new … Continue reading
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Tagged Budget, California Budget, Corporate Income Tax, Payroll tax, Propositions, Taxes
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How much higher would taxes have to be to fund all state and local pension promises? ~1,400 per household per year
Robert Novy-Marx and Josh Rauh have a new NBER working paper out that suggests that filling the pension gap for state and local governments costs roughly ~1,400 per household every year. We calculate increases in contributions required to achieve full … Continue reading
Stunning “Market Share” Growth of US Health Care Spending since 1962
Source: OMB Historical Tables 16.1. HT to David Wessell who shows this graph in Red Ink, which is a nice quick read
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