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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?
- 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
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- Financial firms make large share of pass-through income
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Tag Archives: Spending
Incidence and Price Discrimination: Evidence from Housing Vouchers
From Robert Collinson and Peter Ganong: What is the incidence of housing vouchers? In a frictionless, price-taking equilibrium, increased generosity of a narrowly-targeted subsidy causes in- creases in unit quality. However, search frictions may limit quality improve- ments and subsidies may … Continue reading
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Tagged Government Spending, Housing Finance, Housing Vouchers, HUD, Peter Ganong, Robert Collinson, Spending, Tax Incidence, Taxes
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The Congress-Does-Nothing Deficit Reduction Plan
This David Kamin article on future tax revenues and bracket creep is worth reading. Here are a couple highlights: Because of some long-standing elements of our system as well as clever provisions in the Affordable Care Act, taxes will actually … Continue reading
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Tagged David Kamin, Healthcare, Obamacare, Richard Rubin, Spending, Tax Expenditure, Tax Reform, Taxes
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Boosting Growth: The Spending and Debt Responses to Minimum Wage Hikes
Aaronson, Daniel, Sumit Agarwal, and Eric French have a recent AER paper on the consumption patterns of households with minimum wage recipients following minimum wage increases. Immediately following a minimum wage hike, household income rises on average by about $250 per … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Aaronson, Eric French, Government Spending, inequality, Minimum Wage, MPC, Spending, Sumit Agarwal, Tax Cuts for Whom
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Labs of Democracy & Today’s Fiscal Policy Debates
Here’s my latest Economix column on the labs of democracy & today’s fiscal policy debates on uncertainty, spending, and spending vs taxes: Many of the fiercest disagreements about fiscal policy today stem from disagreements about the causes of the slow … Continue reading
Fiscal Policy and MPC Heterogeneity
Tullio Jappelli and Luigi Pistaferri have a recent paper called Fiscal Policy and MPC Heterogeneity. Here’s an interesting figure from it that shows how MPC varies by cash-on-hand: They aren’t the only ones who document MPC heterogeneity. Dynan, Skinner, Zeldes have a … Continue reading
Links for Today: Heckman on Head Start and Mian & Sufi SF Fed paper
1. Heckman on early childhood education 2. Mian and Sufi: Aggregate Demand and State-Level Employment
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Tagged Amir Sufi, Atif Mian, employment, Fiscal Policy, headstart, Jim Heckman, Labor, Spending, Uncertainty, Wages
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A Painfully Slow Recovery for America’s Workers: Causes, Implications, and the Federal Reserve’s Response
A new speech from Janet Yellen is worth reading. Here are some figures from the speech on the slow response relative to other recessions and the contribution of fiscal support (or lack thereof) for this recession. Premature fiscal contraction is … Continue reading
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Tagged Deficit, Fiscal Policy, Great Recession, Janet Yellen, Jobs, Recovery, Spending
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3 Articles from the Sunday NYTimes
1. God Save the British Economy Each month, the committee heard Posen’s advice. Each month, it voted 8 to 1 against him. The bank eschewed his more expansionary suggestions and stuck to a more conservative approach of keeping interest rates low … Continue reading
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Tagged austerity, College, Education, income mobility, inequality, links, Middle Class, Republicans, Spending, Tax Reform, Taxes, UK
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The Right Way to Spend on Healthcare
Amitabh Chandra and Jon Skinner have a related paper in JEL: ABSTRACT: In the United States, health care technology has contributed to rising survival rates, yet health care spending relative to GDP has also grown more rapidly than in any … Continue reading
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Tagged Amitabh Chandra, Dartmouth, Healthcare, Jon Skinner, Productivity, Spending
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The Medicare Eligibility Age: Demographics and Medical Care Spending
In contrast to Social Security Reform, we do not find a large effect of potential increases in the age of eligibility on the long-term ability to finance medical spending. This is partly because the oldest old spend much more on … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Auerbach, David Culter, Demographics, Fiscal Cliff, Fiscal Policy, Government, Healthcare, inequality, Louise Sheiner, Medicare, Ronald Lee, Spending
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