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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?
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- 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: Government Spending
Fiscal Risk and the Portfolio of Government Programs
From Sam Hanson, David Scharfstein, and Adi Sunderam: This paper proposes a new approach to social cost-benefit analysis using a model in which a benevolent government chooses risky projects in the presence of market failures and tax distortions. The government internalizes … Continue reading
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Tagged Adi Sunderam, Asset Pricing, David Scharfstein, Fiscal Policy, Government Spending, Sam Hanson
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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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Public R&D Investments and Private Sector Patenting: Evidence from NIH Funding Rules
From Pierre Azoulay, Joshua Graff-Zivin, Danielle Li, and Bhaven Sampat: This paper measures the impact of public R&D investments on innovation by private sector firms. We quantify the returns to grant spending at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in … Continue reading
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Tagged Bhaven Sampat, Danielle Li, Government Spending, Innovation, Joshua Graff-Zivin, Pierre Azoulay, public sector, RD
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Public Insurance and Mortality: Evidence from Medicaid Implementation
From Andrew Goodman-Bacon: This paper provides new evidence that Medicaid’s introduction reduced mortality rates among nonwhite infants and children in the 1960s and 1970s. Medicaid required states to cover all cash welfare recipients, which induced substantial cross-state variation in the share … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Government Spending, Health, inequality, Insurance, Medicaid, Poverty
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Who Pays for Public Employee Health Costs?
From Jeff Clemens and David Cutler: We analyze the incidence of public-employee health benefits. Because these benefits are negotiated through the political process, relevant labor market institutions deviate significantly from the competitive, private-sector benchmark. Empirically, we find that roughly 15 percent … Continue reading
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Tagged Budgets, David Cutler, Government Spending, Health Costs, Incidence, Jeff Clemens, State and Local, Unions
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How Changing Government Spending Affects Inequality
Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, a friend and co-author of mine, has an interesting brief on government spending, inequality, and policy design. He analyzes “how differential valuations for government services between rich and poor lead to important implications for the link between … Continue reading
The Time for Austerity: Estimating the Average Treatment Effect of Fiscal Policy
From Oscar Jorda and Alan Taylor: Elevated government debt levels in advanced economies have risen rapidly as sovereigns absorbed private-sector losses and cyclical deficits blew up in the Global Financial Crisis and subsequent slump. A rush to fiscal austerity followed but its justifications and impacts … Continue reading
Transfer Payments and the Macroeconomy: The Effects of Social Security Benefit Changes
From Christy Romer and David Romer: From the early 1950s to the early 1990s, increases in Social Security benefits in the United States varied widely in size and timing, and were generally not undertaken in response to short-run macroeconomic developments. … Continue reading
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Tagged Christy Romer, David Romer, Government Spending, Macroeconomics, Ricardian Equivalence, social security, Transfers
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The Decline, Rebound, and Further Rise in SNAP Enrollment: Disentangling Business Cycle Fluctuations and Policy Changes
From Peter Ganong and Jeff Liebman: Approximately 1-in-7 people and 1-in-4 children received benefits from the US Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in July 2011, both all-time highs. We analyze changes in SNAP take-up over the past two decades. From 1994 … Continue reading
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Tagged Government Spending, Government Transfers, Great Recession, inequality, Jeff Liebman, Peter Ganong, SNAP, Unemployment
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Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending
From David Cutler, Jonathan Skinner, Ariel Dora Stern, and David Wennberg: There is considerable controversy about the causes of regional variations in healthcare expenditures. We use vignettes from patient and physician surveys, linked to Medicare expenditures at the level of … Continue reading
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