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.
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Recent Posts
- Immigrants and Native Workers: New Analysis Using Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data
- Evidence on the Consequences of Banning Affirmative Action
- Behavioral Responses to an Annual Wealth Tax: Evidence from Sweden
- Localized and Biased Technologies: Atkinson and Stiglitz’s New View, Induced Innovations, and Directed Technological Change
- Congrats to Matt Gentzkow on winning the JBC Medal!
- Tapping the Brakes: Are Less Active Markets Safer and Better for the Economy?
- The Euro and the Geography of International Debt Flows
- Weekend Links: Understanding Piketty, Falling Interest Rates, Secular Stagnation, etc
Twitter Updates
- Immigrants and Native Workers: New Analysis Using Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data wp.me/p2otxR-At 5 hours ago
- Berkeley is awesome. Great lineup over the next few days http://t.co/Bg5GqocIVF 10 hours ago
- Solow on Piketty via @tnr newrepublic.com/article/117429… 11 hours ago
- Evidence on the Consequences of Banning Affirmative Action wp.me/p2otxR-Ar 11 hours ago
- RT @bblockwood: New study on Swedish data: wealth taxes don't distort saving, but do cause misreporting. (h/t @omzidar) http://t.co/jFT4O27… 1 day ago
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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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