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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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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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Tag Archives: cities
Macroeconomic Implications of Agglomeration
From Morris Davis, Jonas Fisher, and Toni Whited: Cities exist because of the productivity gains that arise from clustering production and workers, a process called agglomeration. How important is agglomeration for aggregate growth? This paper constructs a dynamic stochastic general … Continue reading
Is New York as Expensive as You Think?
Catherine Rampell has an interesting piece on this issue that is worth reading. It highlights research from Jessie Handbury, who makes three points in a recent paper: First, I find that there are large differences in how high- and low-income households … Continue reading
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Tagged Catherine Rampbell, cities, Economic Geography, Jessie Handbury, Local Labor Markets
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Washington’s Definition of Middle Class
I saw this proposal in Lori Montgomery’s article on fiscal cliff talks yesterday: Fresh tax revenue, generated in part by raising rates on the wealthy, as Obama wants, and in part by limiting their deductions, as Republicans prefer. The top … Continue reading
Interesting Paragraph from Ed Glaeser
Economist Matthew Kahn of UCLA has studied the death tolls from natural disasters. He found that where governments are more capable, fewer people die. This makes me worry about the fate of cities in the developing world that are just as subject to natural … Continue reading
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Tagged cities, Ed Glaeser, Government, Matthew Kahn, natural disasters, Research
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