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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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- 11 Interesting Charts from the CEA’s Economic Report of the President
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- Do Dividend Tax Cuts Increase Investment and Hiring?
- Evaluating Public Programs with Close Substitutes: The Case of Head Start
- Capital Taxation in the 21st Century
- Pareto and Piketty: The Macroeconomics of Top Income and Wealth Inequality
- Mr. Brownback’s solution to fill the current $200M budget hole
- How Gary Becker saw the scourge of discrimination
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Tag Archives: Tax Cuts
Mr. Brownback’s solution to fill the current $200M budget hole
From NYTimes: Most of Mr. Brownback’s solution to fill the current hole comes through transferring more than $200 million from various state funds, such as one for highway projects and another for early-childhood education programs, into the state general fund. … Continue reading
The Dynamic Effects of Personal and Corporate Income Tax Changes in the United States
From Karel Mertens and Morten Ravn: This paper presents evidence on the aggregate effects of changes in federal tax policy in the United States in the post-WWII sample. Exogenous changes in taxes are identified in a vector autoregressive model by proxying latent … Continue reading
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Tagged Christy Romer, Corporate Tax, Corporate Taxation, David Romer, employment, Karel Mertens, Morten Ravn, Personal Taxes, Tax Cuts, Taxes
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Household Debt and the Dynamic Effects of Income Tax Changes
From James Cloyne and Paolo Surico: This paper investigates a new channel in the transmission of fiscal policy: household debt. Using a long span of expenditure survey data and a new narrative measure of exogenous income tax changes for the UK, … Continue reading
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Tagged Consumption, Credit Constraints, debt, Durables, Finance, Heterogeneity, Household Debt, Housing Finance, James Cloyne, macro, Mortgages, MPC, Tax Cuts, Taxes
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Tax Cuts for Whom? Do tax changes for high income taxpayers generate more growth than similarly sized tax changes for lower income taxpayers?
This figure, which is from a recently revised and submitted paper of mine, shows how the multiplier varies across the income distribution. It shows that equivalently sized tax changes for lower income groups have larger macroeconomic impacts on … Continue reading
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Tagged Employment Growth, Fiscal Policy, Great Recession, inequality, Jobs, Middle Class, Redistribution, Stimulus, Tax Cuts, Tax Cuts for Whom, Taxes
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Facts are Stubborn Things: High Income Tax Rates and Job Creation
Throughout the campaign and through the fiscal cliff discussions, Republicans have consistently espoused the idea that modestly raising top marginal rates will destroy job creation. For instance, here is Sen Lindsey Gram from ABC’s “This Week”, “[T]o avoid becoming Greece, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, Economic Growth, Fiscal Cliff, inequality, Jobs, Laura Tyson, Lindsey Graham, Republicans, Tax Cuts, Tax Cuts for Whom, Tax Reform, top 1 percent
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The Middle-Class Tax Cuts’ Impact On Consumer Spending & Retailers
According to today’s NEC and CEA report, Allowing the middle-class tax rates to rise and failing to patch the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) could cut the growth of real consumer spending by 1.7 percentage points in 2013. Faced with these tax … Continue reading
