About
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: NYTimes
Incomes & the Cost of a Colonoscopy across US Cities
I’m a bit late to posting this since I had my qualifying exams on Monday, but I saw this map for the front page story of this Sunday’s NYTimes and thought it was interesting. It shows how much the cost … Continue reading
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Tagged Baumol's cost, Biased Productivity, Healthcare, Healthcare Costs, NYTimes, Productivity, Regional Variation
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Do Local Subsidies to Attract Companies Reduce Welfare?
The lead story on the NYTimes on local subsidies for companies today takes a more skeptical stance than Enrico Moretti and Michael Greenstone in this paper: Increasingly, local governments compete by offering substantial subsidies to industrial plants to locate within … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporate Taxes, Enrico Moretti, Local Tax Policy, Michael Greenstone, NYTimes, State and Local, Taxes
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What economic problem keeps Larry Summers up at night?
What about the economy now keeps you in cold sweats at night? I worry for the medium and long term about where the jobs are going to come from for those with fewer skills. One in five men between 25 … Continue reading
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Tagged david autor, Globalization, inequality, Jobs, Labor, larry summers, Middle Class, NYTimes, Technological Change
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The Growing Burden of Payroll Taxes
Here’s a column on reforming the payroll tax that I wrote in NYTimes Economix today: Payroll taxes and corporate income taxes accounted for an equal share of federal tax revenue in 1969. By 2009, payroll taxes generated more than six times as much … Continue reading
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Tagged Baumol's cost, Corporate Income Tax, debt, Disability Insurance, Economic Policy, Fiscal Cliff, Healthcare, income taxes, inequality, Jobs, Medicare, Middle Class, NYTimes, Payroll tax, Progressivity, Revenue, skills, social insurance, social security, Stimulus, Tax Cuts for Whom, Tax Reform, Taxes, technology
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Tax Cuts for Job Creators – Summary
Mark Thoma summarized my recent NYTimes Economix piece with Laura Tyson nicely: Tax Cuts for Job Creators, by Laura D’Andrea Tyson and Owen Zidar, Commentary, NY Times: The centerpiece of Mitt Romney’s tax plan is an across-the-board 20 percent cut … Continue reading
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Tagged Fiscal Cliff, inequality, Jobs, Laura Tyson, NYTimes, Tax Cuts for Whom, Tax Reform, Taxes
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Tax Cuts for Whom? Heterogeneous Effects of Income Tax Changes on Growth & Employment
Here are slides from my 10/1/2012 presentation at Berkeley. Abstract: This paper investigates how tax changes for different income groups affect macroeconomic activity. Using historical tax return data from NBER’s TAXSIM, I construct a measure of who received (or who paid … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, Fiscal Cliff, Growth, inequality, Jobs, NYTimes, Research, Tax Cuts for Whom, Tax Reform, Taxes
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