About
I'm an Economics Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley focusing on public finance topics at the intersection of labor economics and macroeconomics. My current research focus is on the interaction of corporate taxation, firm location decisions, and the location and scale of economic activity. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
Homepage, CV, & Research
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Recent Posts
- Retirement Security in an Aging Society
- Poverty and the Tax Code
- Weekend reading
- Use-it-or-Lose-it Budget Rules
- Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption Evidence from US States
- From Natural Variation to Optimal Policy? The Importance of Endogenous Peer Group Formation
- “Cash on Hand” and Consumption: Evidence from Mortgage Refinancing
- US inequality due to assortative marriages | vox
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Archives
Blogroll
- Andrew Samwick
- Austin Goolsbee
- Brad Delong
- Calculated Risk
- Donald Marron
- Economist – Democracy in America
- Economist – Free Exchange
- Economix
- Ezra Klein
- Felix Salmon
- FiveThirtyEight
- Greg Mankiw
- Jared Bernstein
- Keith Hennessey
- Marginal Revolution
- Mark Thoma
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- Miles Kimball
- Noah Smith
- Paul Krugman
- The Caucus
- The Fix
Tag Archives: NBER
A Century of U.S. Central Banking: Goals, Frameworks, Accountability
From Ben Bernanke: I’d like to thank the National Bureau of Economic Research for organizing this conference in recognition of the Federal Reserve’s centennial, and I’m glad to have the opportunity to participate. In keeping with the spirit of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Bernanke, Central Banking, Economic History, Monetary Policy, NBER
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Gas Taxes and Air Pollution: Issues with Uniform Taxation
NBER Digest reporter Claire Brunel covers a new paper by Christopher Knittel and Ryan Sandler on gas taxes and air pollution that makes an interesting point (see the end of the post in bold) about uniform gas taxes. While some have … Continue reading
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Tagged Air Pollution, Christopher Knittel, Claire Brunel, Environment, Gas Taxes, NBER, Ryan Sandler, Taxes
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Are We Sending the Best and Brightest to College?
Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers have an interesting column today in Bloomberg View: The real crisis in American higher education is that our best colleges never see a large chunk of our smartest students. In an important recent study, the economists Caroline … Continue reading
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Tagged Betsey Stevenson, Caroline Hoxby, Christopher Avery, College, Education, inequality, Justin Wolfers, Middle Class, NBER, Sarena Goodman
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Lessons from a Half Century of Federal Individual Income Tax Changes
This chart shows how income tax liabilities have changed each year for the five income quintiles over the past half century. Here are a few things to notice: We love cutting income taxes. Almost all of the changes are tax … Continue reading
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Tagged Economic Growth, economy, Fiscal Cliff, Government, Income Growth, Jobs, Middle Class, NBER, payroll taxes, Politics, Tax Cuts for Whom, Tax Reform, Taxes
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