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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- RT @StefanPEcon: Economic calculations help to locate long forgotten cities....amazing! Trade, Merchants, and the Lost Cities of the Bronz… 18 hours ago
- The Nordic Model May Be the Best Cushion Against Capitalism. Can It Survive Immigration? nytimes.com/2019/07/11/bus… 2 days ago
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Tag Archives: Scott Baker
Debt and the Consumption Response to Household Income Shocks
From Scott Baker: This paper exploits a new detailed household dataset with comprehensive financial information on millions of households to investigate the interaction between household balance sheets, income, and consumption during the Great Recession. In particular, I test whether consumption … Continue reading
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Tagged balance sheets, Consumption, debt, Great Recession, Scott Baker
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The Impact of Unemployment Insurance on Job Search: Evidence from Google Search Data
From Scott Baker and Andrey Fradkin: We use Google search data to construct the first high-frequency, location-specific index of job search activity (GJSI). We demonstrate the GJSI’s validity and study the effect of increased unemployment insurance (UI) on job search activity. … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrey Fradkin, data, Google, Scott Baker, search, unemployment insurance
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