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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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Tag Archives: Dylan Matthews
Breaking Down US Debt
From Wonkblog
One thing I learned in Hanover this weekend – UK Housing Subsidies Edition
Sorry for the light posting – I was out of town for a college reunion. It was great to talk to old classmates. One of my friends who lives in London told me about new UK mortgage subsidy programs that … Continue reading
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Tagged Britain, Dylan Matthews, Europe, Fannie and Freddie, GSEs, Housing, Mervyn King, mortgage market, Subsidies, UK
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Who Gets Tax Breaks? Tax Expenditures and Credits by Income Group
From Dylan Matthews: The CBO is out with a big new report on who gets what out of tax expenditures, the deduction, credits, and exclusions that have grown to cost the federal government hundreds of billions of dollars a year. Here’s the … Continue reading
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Tagged Dylan Matthews, Tax Expenditures, Tax Reform, Taxes, wonkblog
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Links: Deficits, Fiscal Policy in a Depressed Economy, Finance, & Moneyball for Judges
Moneyball for Judges by Cass Sunstein Dylan Matthews on Deficits (and Krugman follow up) Fiscal Policy in a Depressed Economy: Further Thoughts from Brad Delong Solow on American Finance (or Mark Thoma’s summary)
The Types of Things that Congress Should be Considering
From the Hamilton Project (and recently highlighted by Dylan Matthews): An Enduring Social Safety Net Transitioning to Bundled Payments in Medicare Reforming Federal Support for Risky Development Restructuring Cost Sharing and Supplemental Insurance for Medicare An Evidence-Based Path to Disability Insurance … Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, Dylan Matthews, Government Spending, Hamilton Project, Sequester, Tax Reform
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Skill-Biased Technological Change and Rising Wage Inequality: Some Problems and Puzzles
Dylan Matthews has a nice post on the inequality & skill biased technical change debate between David Autor, who is one of my favorite labor economists, and some folks at EPI. I wanted to highlight this paper by David Card … Continue reading
More Progressive Ways to Reduce Social Security Spending than Chained CPI
Dylan Matthews has a great post discussing more progressive cuts to social security than Chained CPI. He includes the option of altering the Preliminary Issuance Amount, which is determined by a benefit schedule that maps your “average wages” into a personalized … Continue reading
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Tagged debt, Dylan Matthews, Fiscal Cliff, PIA, seniors, social security
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Links for Today: Fiscal Cliff, Effectiveness of Savings Incentives, & Banking
Absolutely everything you need to know about the fiscal cliff from Wonkblog Study Questions Tax Breaks’ Effect on Retirement Savings by Annie Lowrie Banking Must not be Left in the Shadows by Gary Gorton via Mark Thoma
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Tagged Annie Lowrie, Banking, Brad Plumer, Dylan Matthews, Ezra Klein, Financial Regulation, Fiscal Cliff, Gary Gorton, Mark Thoma, Research, Retirement, Savings, Suzy Khimm, Taxes, wonkblog
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